New York-based The Movie Gross sales Firm has pounced on the worldwide rights to Colombian documentary function “Igualada” by Juan Mejía Botero forward of its world premiere on the Sundance Movie Pageant within the World Cinema Documentary Competitors sidebar.
Mejía Botero, whose most up-to-date function documentary “Demise by a Thousand Cuts” gained the Viewers Award at DOC NYC, chronicles politician Francia Márquez’s groundbreaking journey from her begin as a rural grassroot activist to her history-making marketing campaign to grow to be not solely the primary black but in addition the primary feminine president of her native Colombia.
Given unique entry, Mejía Botero follows Márquez as she “dares to problem the established order by launching a presidential marketing campaign in Colombia, a nation beset by profound racial and socio-economic disparities,” per the synopsis.
Reclaiming the derogatory time period “igualada” (used to belittle people asserting rights deemed past their place in society), Márquez propels a motion into the higher spheres of affect, difficult the notion of conforming to prescribed roles. Spanning 15 years, the documentary unveils the fragile course of that may drive societal change.
“Igualada” was produced by Juan E. Yepes, Daniela Alatorre and Sonia Serna, and was government produced by Marco Williams, Paola Mendoza and Felipe Estefan. The co-production between Colombia, the U.S. and Mexico was directed by Mejía Botero, lensed by [Karen] Gómez (“Beneath Silence and Earth”) and edited by Andrea Chignoli (“No,” “The Cow Who Sang a Music Into the Future”).
Yépes and Alatorre closed the pact with Andrew Herwitz, president of The Movie Gross sales Firm.
“This movie will resonate the world over. The filmmakers have captured a motion, which might be unbelievable have been it not true…Assume ‘Knock Down the Home’ meets ‘Mandela,’” mentioned Herwitz.
“We’re so excited to be partnering with The Movie Gross sales Firm. It’s a enormous step in our quest to carry this necessary Latin American story to the world,” mentioned Yépez.
Based in 2002, The Movie Gross sales Firm’s diverse and in depth catalog of some 200 titles consists of “Radical” (Sundance 2023 Pageant Favourite awardee); Roberta Flack docu “Roberta”; Sundance Alfred P. Sloan Function Movie prizewinner “Son of Monarchs” and SWSW winner “Unhealthy Axe.”
The 40th version of the Sundance Movie Pageant runs from Jan. 21 to twenty-eight in Park Metropolis, Utah.
