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UTA Snaps Up Domestic Sales for Buzzy Mexican Sundance Title ‘Sujo,’ ‘Identifying Features’ Creators’ Unconventional Narco Narrative (EXCLUSIVE)
The film tackles inherited identity and the weighty struggles that suffocate cartel communities.
Screening within the fest’s World Cinema Dramatic competition, the project tackles inherited identity and the weighty struggles that suffocate cartel communities through the eyes and experiences of a toddler, Sujo (Kevin Uriel Aguilar Luna, Juan Jesús Varela), who comes of age having lost parents in a town marred by brutality. We felt that telling a story through the eyes of the son of a perpetrator (a victim nonetheless), gave us a unique opportunity to reflect on the challenges that all young people go through in Mexico, but also in any place where the younger generations face some kind of violence that seems an inevitable path,” Rondero and Valadez explained. Produced by Valadez and Romero’s EnAguas Cine alongside Diana Arcega and Mexico’s Corpulenta, Jewerl Ross at California’s Silent R Management (“Bruiser”) and Jean-Baptiste Bailly-Maitre and Devesa at Alpha Violet, the film moves in lockstep with the gravity of the subject matter.
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