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‘Chronicles Of A Wandering Saint,’ Independent Spirit Award-Nominated Comedy From Tomás Gómez Bustillo, Secures North American Deal
EXCLUSIVE: After landing three Independent Spirit Award nominations including Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, and Best Cinematography, writer-director Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s under-…
The rare film to make a splash on the awards front even before release, Chronicles is set in a tiny Argentinian town, where a pious yet competitive woman decides that staging a miracle could be her ticket to sainthood. It’s quotidian adventure, it’s fantastical magics, it turns you upside down at the half way point and leads you lovingly towards one of the most simply moving conclusions I’ve seen in a film of this kind in quite a while.” He added that “if moviegoers are lucky, Tomás Gómez Bustillo will be inventing worlds like this for a long time.” Other recent acquisitions include SXSW winner A Vanishing Fog as well as The Academy & Film Foundation’s new restoration of Lee Grant’s 1980 drama Tell Me a Riddle, the first major American feature to be written, produced, and directed entirely by women.
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