Principal photography of Mexican writer-director Iria Gómez Concheiro’s dystopian thriller “Here be Dragons” is underway in Mexico, with Gómez Concheiro’s Ciudad Cinema producing alongside “La Jaula de Oro” producer Machete Prods., led by Edher Campos.
“When the project was broached to me last year by Iria and her producing partner Rodrigo Rios Legaspi, I was immediately drawn to it as I was keen to make a science fiction film, especially because it deals with themes that interest me, trouble me and that are very relevant today: the control over a society, the fragility of youth, its struggle in a failing system, global warming, the scarcity of resources and the power those resources hold within a government,” said Campos.
“And that control makes you believe you should be afraid. That indeed, here be dragons,” he added wryly.
Starring Chile’s Alfredo Castro (“El Conde”), Hernán Mendoza (“The Box”) and...
“When the project was broached to me last year by Iria and her producing partner Rodrigo Rios Legaspi, I was immediately drawn to it as I was keen to make a science fiction film, especially because it deals with themes that interest me, trouble me and that are very relevant today: the control over a society, the fragility of youth, its struggle in a failing system, global warming, the scarcity of resources and the power those resources hold within a government,” said Campos.
“And that control makes you believe you should be afraid. That indeed, here be dragons,” he added wryly.
Starring Chile’s Alfredo Castro (“El Conde”), Hernán Mendoza (“The Box”) and...
- 6/13/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
A week after Jesús (Juan Jesús Varela) announces his immigration dreams to his mother Magdalena (Mercedes Hernández) — a simple plan, consisting of alighting to Arizona with his best friend Rigo (Armando García), getting a job, and not much else — the young Mexican teenager is gone. Months later, the boys have yet to announce their arrival in the United States, nor have they returned to the landlocked state of Guanajuato. They, like so many before and likely after them, have simply gone missing, and in a country where such a tragedy is all too common, it falls on the people they’ve left behind to figure out what has happened to their beloved boys.
Fernanda Valadez’s feature directorial debut “Identifying Features” takes that seemingly tear-jerking concept — one beset by knotty bureaucratic issues, painful language barriers, and the sense of further danger around every bend — and turns it into an artfully...
Fernanda Valadez’s feature directorial debut “Identifying Features” takes that seemingly tear-jerking concept — one beset by knotty bureaucratic issues, painful language barriers, and the sense of further danger around every bend — and turns it into an artfully...
- 1/21/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
’This war has many faces and it involves all kinds of illegal business.’
Mexican filmmaker Fernanda Valadez got the idea for her Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Competition entry Identifying Features (Sin Senas Particulares) when she read an article about a mass abduction several years ago.
“I come from the state of Guanajato and there are lots of migrants from there who try to get into the United States,” says Valadez, whose feature directorial debut premieres on Saturday afternoon (25) at Prospector Square. “I came across a report about 13 boys who were abducted from a bus and it made me think about...
Mexican filmmaker Fernanda Valadez got the idea for her Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Competition entry Identifying Features (Sin Senas Particulares) when she read an article about a mass abduction several years ago.
“I come from the state of Guanajato and there are lots of migrants from there who try to get into the United States,” says Valadez, whose feature directorial debut premieres on Saturday afternoon (25) at Prospector Square. “I came across a report about 13 boys who were abducted from a bus and it made me think about...
- 1/25/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
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