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EXCLUSIVE: United Talent Agency (UTA) has signed Colombian filmmaker and Cannes Film Festival regular Simón Mesa Soto for practice successful each areas.
Mesa Soto’s latest feature, Un Poeta, premiered successful nan Un Certain Regard conception astatine nan 2025 festival, wherever it was awarded nan Jury Prize.
A satirical play and tragicomedy, Un Poeta (A Poet) follows a struggling writer whose creator ambitions and individual contradictions collide.
The movie played astatine a big of world festivals and scored wins astatine Melbourne, San Sebastián, El Gouna, Munich, and successful India. It was selected arsenic Colombia’s charismatic submission for Best International Feature Film astatine nan 98th Academy Awards and received nominations for Best International Film astatine nan Film Independent Spirit Awards and Best Ibero-American Film astatine nan Goya Awards.
Mesa Soto’s relationship pinch Cannes began pinch his short movie Leidi, which won nan short movie Palme d’Or successful 2014. He returned to nan shorts Official Competition successful 2016 pinch Madre, and debut feature, Amparo, premiered astatine Cannes Critics’ Week successful 2021, wherever it earned nan Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award.
He studied Audiovisual Communication astatine Universidad de Antioquia earlier earning a Master’s grade from nan London Film School.
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