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Guatemala’s Jayro Bustamante Takes Up Indigenous Rights Once More with ‘Mountains of Fire’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Guatemala’s Jayro Bustamante discussed his upcoming drama 'Mountains of Fire' and his first comedy, an adaptation of Spain’s ‘Nada en la nevera.’
At the Panama Int’l Film Festival ( IFF Panama) to present his latest film “Rita” and give a masterclass, Guatemala’s acclaimed filmmaker Jayro Bustamante sat down with Variety to discuss his upcoming projects, “Mountains of Fire” (“Cordillera de Fuego”) which has just completed post-production, and his first comedy, the adaptation of 1998 Spanish romcom “Nada en la nevera” (roughly translated to “Nothing in the Fridge”). “Mountains of Fire” began as a social awareness project, which he decided would be more impactful as a feature film, according to Bustamante, who spent his childhood in a Mayan community by Guatemala’s Lake Atitlán. In the action drama penned by Bustamante, Luis Pineda and Margarita Kénefic, two volcanologists, played by “Ixcanul’s” Maria Mercedes Coroy and Tatiana Palomo, visit indigenous communities to warn and evacuate them from the fire mountain range where a new volcano is forming.
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