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Francisca Alegría’s ‘Nativity’ Sees Chile’s Madre Content Join Quijote Films on the Magical Realist Fable of a Violent Man’s Rebirth (EXCLUSIVE)
Francisca Alegría’s sophomore drama ‘Nativity’ will be pitched at Madrid’s ECAM Forum Co-Production Market June 10.
After disappearing during a dive at sea, Cristián, a Chilean fisherman trapped in his own violence and guilt, returns months later to his village, physically and spiritually changed, runs the synopsis. Truthful to Latin America’s famed literary tradition of magical realism, made famous by Gabriel García Márquez and embodied in Chile by Isabel Allende’s “The House of the Spirits,” Alegria said she will use the genre to denounce violence against women, a storytelling device applied earlier in her Sundance selected debut “The Cows Who Sang a Song Into the Future” to highlight climate change. Nasi who served as a minority co-producer on the Brazilian Berlin Silver Bear winning pic “The Blue Trail,” has projects with Peru and South Africa on his desk: “‘the further away and the weirdest co-productions the more fun I have.”’ He will also reunite with the multi-awarded Theo Court (“White on White”) on his next project “Three Dark Nights”, and María Paz González (“Lina from Lima”) on “To Die on Your Feet.”As for Alegría, she will attend ECAM Forum also as a co-producer for Madre Content on Nadine Luque’s work in progress “A Decorous Woman,” produced by Parina Films.
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