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EXCLUSIVE: Guatemalan head Jayro Bustamante (Ixcanul, La Llorona) is group to nonstop thriller República Luminosa successful which a distant land municipality is terrorized by 32 feral children who look retired of nan surrounding jungle.
Rodrigo Teixeira’s RT Features, which is successful Cannes this twelvemonth pinch James Gray’s Palme d’Or contender Paper Tiger and Dominga Sotomayor’s La Perra in Directors’ Fortnight, is afloat financing nan film. Lucky Number is handling world sales, pinch CAA Media Finance handling domestic.
The characteristic is adapted from best-selling Spanish author Andrés Barba’s eponymous 2021 novel, titled a A Luminous Republic successful English.
The thriller follows events successful nan municipality arsenic nan children shatter nan peace. Speaking an chartless connection and defying societal norms, they spark panic among nan locals. As Daniel, nan town’s official, struggles to reconstruct order, his hunt for answers spirals into obsession. Tension reaches a breaking constituent erstwhile nan children vanish, abducting nan town’s youth, including Daniel’s stepdaughter.
Daniel’s hopeless pursuit leads to a hidden, sparkling and anarchic civilization wherever children unrecorded wholly without adults aliases rules. His effort to reclaim power triggers a catastrophic clash, destroying his civilized compass and nan very family he fought to save.
Bustamante’s first movie Ixcanul debuted successful nan Berlinale successful 2015, winning nan Alfred Bauer Prize, since rebranded arsenic nan Silver Bear Jury Prize. It past represented Guatemala astatine nan 88th Academy Awards.
His 2nd film, Tremors, premiered astatine nan 2019 Berlinale, and besides played successful San Sebastian wherever it won Best Latin American film. He followed this pinch La Llorona, which premiered successful Venice that aforesaid year, winning nan Best Director grant successful nan Giornate degli Autori and past went connected to gain a Golden Globe nomination.
Bustamente is repped by CAA, Gaby Mena astatine M88 and Marios Rush astatine Marios Rush Law.
RT Features’ upcoming slate includes Michael Almereyda’s Zero K, starring recently announced Britt Lower, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Selton Mello alongside Caleb Landry Jones and Peter Saarsgard.
The institution is besides finishing post-production connected Glaxo, directed by Benjamin Naishtat and starring Lali Espósito, Esteban Lamothe, Esteban Bigliardi, and Marcelo Subiotto and Wolves, directed by Rami Kodeih and inspired by nan real-life illness of Lebanon’s banking strategy successful 2019.
