Mexico’s Marina de Taviria, Oscar-nominated as supporting actress for her efficiency because the mom in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” is hooked up to star in Brenda Navarro’s “Home Eight” (“Casa 8”), one of many hottest packages at this week’s Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM).
In additional casting information, Verónica Bravo, nominated for a 2023 greatest actress Canacine Prize for “Sobreviviendo Mis XV,” can be hooked up to take a key solid position within the collection.
At present in improvement and reaching out for worldwide manufacturing companions, “Home Eight” is about up at high-flying Mexican manufacturing outfit Mandarina Cine, this 12 months a world SXSW Viewers Award winner for “Corina,” now nominated for eight Mexican Academy Ariel Awards.
Mandarina additionally produced “The Satan Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches within the Similar Field),” the primary greatest movie winner on the inaugural Berlinale Views part, reserved for first-time films.
“The Satan Smokes” was described by Selection as “a childhood survival story as unusual and beguiling as its title. Likewise, “Home Eight” weighs in as probably the most distinctive choices at BAM. A psychological thriller, with fantasy and even metaphysical components, it follows a bunch of terminally sick ladies who shelter in a clandestine home to die with dignity. They arrive to be confronted by a disturbing actuality: The Witch, their religious and scientific chief, has developed an experimental technique that revives the lifeless, in accordance with the synopsis.
When one of many lifeless unexpectedly revives, the neighborhood fractures, and the Witches assistant turns into their best enemy, unleashing an moral and emotional wrestle had been accepting dying or defying it should change their lives ceaselessly.
“Brenda Navarro is an indispensable voice in our literature, creator of heart-rending worlds that are personally and socially touching. I’d be delighted to collaborate on this mission,” stated de Tavira.
“I’m completely moved by the potential of being a part of a bunch of ladies who inform a brave, dangerous, painful and sincere story, all guided by probably the most thrilling younger voices in our nation’s present literature, Brenda Navarro. “Might the story be instructed!”
“As a narrator, Brenda Navarro has the sensibility and social conscience to permit her to put in writing from ache, to not reproduce however dismantle it. Her arrival on the movie and TV scene, with pictures as potent as her writing, is a pure step. At Mandarina we’re honoured and completely happy to make this journey along with her,” stated Carlos Hernández Vázquez, co-founder of Mandarina Cine with Gabriel Gavica in 2018.
Bravo added that she and Hernández are on the lookout for worldwide alliances to supply “Home Eight,” “a narrative about ladies with a group made up primarily of ladies by which the primary theme is the worry to dwell when confronted by such an unjust world, full of ladies that are battling to train a management over their selections. ‘Home Eight’ is a horror drama the place the need to die with dignity is punished by everlasting life.”
“Home Eight” gained first prize within the 2024 Episode 0 part at Mexico’s Guadalajara Movie Competition.
Navarro was a part of the “Cometierra” collection writers room. “Empty Homes,” her first novel, was printed in 10 languages. The massive display adaptation of “Ceniza en la boca” is now in post-production, directed by Diego Luna.
Co-produced by Mandarina Cine and a primary Turkey-Mexico co-production, Seyfettin Tokmak’s “Empire of the Rabbits” scooped greatest director in Taipei and and screenplay at Tallinn Black Nights Competition.
Marina de Tavira is represented by the Expertise on the Highway company, Verónica Bravo by Lumina Administration.
