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Spanish Star Paz Vega Joins Venezuelan Thriller ‘Death Has No Master,’ From Jorge Thielen Armand (EXCLUSIVE)


The 'Spanglish' star headlines the film about a woman who returns to Venezuela after 20 years and must fight to reclaim her family's cacao plantation.

The producer’s credits include Felipe Gálvez’s Chilean Western “ The Settlers,” which premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section last year, and Argentine director Eduardo Williams’ docu-drama “ The Human Surge 3.” “Death Has No Master” is currently set up as a six-country co-production between Venezuela, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain and Canada, the last through La Faena Films, a Toronto-based company co-founded in 2015 by Armand and Rodrigo Michelangeli. The producer will be in Venice with a trio of films, including Singaporean filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua’s Golden Lion contender “ Stranger Eyes,” Horizons player “Wishing on a Star,” from Péter Kerekes, and Hayoun Kwon’s “Guardians of the Jade Mountain,” premiering in the festival’s VR competition.

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