Paris-based gross sales firm Loco Movies has picked up world rights to Sebastian Parra R’s Colombian low-fi sci-fi thriller “Seed of the Desert” (“Semilla del Desierto”), premiering in competitors at this 12 months’s Tallinn Black Nights Movie Competition.
Selection has been given unique entry to the movie’s trailer, seen beneath.
The characteristic debuts on Monday, Nov. 18, and contains a Q&A with Parra – who additionally wrote the movie’s screenplay, producer Andrés Gómez D, cinematographer David Curto, manufacturing designer Belen Toscano y Garcia, govt producer Tatiana Ronderos, unit supervisor producer Cesar León and sound designer Aleix Cuaresma.
Set on a fictional desert continent, this resourceful thriller follows Caviche and Chelina, a younger couple confronted with a tough choice after they uncover an surprising being pregnant. Apprehensive about how her violent father will react to the information, Chelina decides to get an abortion. To finance the process, the couple is pressured headlong into the world of gasoline smuggling on a journey by means of a “Mad Max”-like hell.
In accordance with Tallinn programmer Javier Garcia Puerto, “[‘Seed of the Desert’] underlines the tendency of the present Latin American cinema to current modern tales, flirting with genres and exposing nonetheless prevailing social realities in a fantasy framework, with out remaining caught in basic city drama.”
Photo voltaic Cinema produces with Lisa Maric serving as co-producer. Financing started with a profitable crowdfunding marketing campaign earlier than institutional help was offered by Proimágenes Colombia.
Of their pickup, Loco Movies’ Laurent Daniélou and Arnaud Godart informed Selection, “We have been struck by the mesmerizing cinematography of this frantic race by means of the desert from the primary shot. As well as, we have been impressed by the refined dramaturgy reappropriating the codes of the dystopian fable to carry up necessary social points reminiscent of household rights and ecology.”
“Past the style facet, this movie is, earlier than all, a really sturdy cinema piece that reminded us of the primary ‘Mad Max’ motion pictures; every shot of the movie is pure cinema,” they added.
