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Fantasy, Queer and Identity Themes Rule at Tres Puertos Costa Rica Lab
Genre films dominate this year’s Tres Puertos Costa Rica, now on its third edition. It runs June 18-23 before the Media Market and the film fest.
Founded 14 years ago with past editions also held in Argentina, Chile, Panama and Mexico, the lab focuses on both the creative and production aspects of each project narrative, aesthetic, conceptual, as well as financing and industry pathways – tailored to the unique needs of each team. Selected for II Ópera Prima Lab in Cartagena, “this story blends visual worlds and symbols such as the imagery surrounding the National Beauty Pageant, military aesthetics, popular religiosity and the witchcraft of Colombia’s Caribbean region,” said Mejía. With support from Torino, San Sebastián and Netflix’s New Voices Grant, “it’s a feverish, atmospheric film set on a decaying Dominican estate where time feels suspended and matriarchal tensions simmer beneath the surface, exploring themes of sexuality, isolation, and ancestral burden through a surreal, almost gothic lens grounded in Caribbean specificity,” said Llaverías and Espinal.
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