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EXCLUSIVE: UK-based nonfiction agency INDOX has boarded Lilyana Torres’ hybrid characteristic I Want To Kill My Grandfather and Josef Gatti’s immersive subject documentary Phenomena for worldwide show representation.
I Want To Kill My Grandfather is presently successful post-production and is described arsenic a “darkly playful hybrid activity that blurs documentary and fiction.” The movie follows a filmmaker who sets retired to make a documentary astir sidesplitting her grandfather, nan man who erstwhile hired sicarios to onslaught her father. The movie is co-directed by Carlos Morales (Symphony of a Sad Sea) and produced by Gabriel Stavenhagen (Rotten In The Sun) via The Lift Films and Lizzie Gillett (Lowland Kids) via Misfits Entertainment.
“When I first said pinch Luke, I felt he instantly understood nan tone of nan movie and nan delicate equilibrium betwixt nan unusual joke and symptom that runs done it,” Torres said successful a statement. “That benignant of small heart is rare. It made maine consciousness nan movie had recovered nan correct location to scope audiences.”
Phenomena debuted at True/False Film Festival earlier playing CPH: DOX.
The task is described arsenic a “psychedelic travel into nan cloth of nan universe.” The movie is changeable wholly in-camera without ocular effects. The movie is produced by Rob Innes for Mashup Pictures alongside Josef Gatti for Gatti. The executive producers are Jessica Harrop and Caitlin Mae Burke of Sandbox Films, and Jad Abumrad.
“Our squad is very excited to beryllium moving pinch Luke and INDOX. We consciousness that he not only understands nan imaginable and imagination for Phenomena, but has a genuine passion for nan film,” Innes said successful a statement.
