Variety reports on a distribution deal for Andres Wood's "Machuca":
Spanish sales consortium Latido has licensed U.S. rights on Andres Wood's Chilean foreign-language Oscar contender "Machuca" to Los Angeles-based Menemsha Films. Menemsha plans an early 2005 platform release, starting in New York. A B.O. smash-hit in Chile, the coming-of-age tale turns on the growing friendship between two schoolboys from different sides of the political tracks as Chile hurtles towards Augusto Pinochet's coup in 1973.
