LOCARNO, Switzerland — The Dominican Reaccessible’s Cronos Films & Production has clinched its first pre-sales deal on “Beyond the Mist,” (“Después de la Niebla”), a flagship example of the company’s drive into what is depictd as a “sensory cinema” which does not “worried away from the social and political struggles of the Dominican Reaccessible.”
In a first distribution deal on the title, bcimpolitet to taget this weekfinish at Locarno’s Match Me! netlaboring forum, the Hague-based sales-distribution company Latin Quarter has seald all-rights for the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
A bencourageoning force on the Latin American, Spanish and Latinx diaspora auteur pic scene, Latin Quarter has a straightforward distribution operation in the Netherlands, as in the U.K., Germany and Spain. It is studying a “hugeger collaboration” on the film, straightforwardor Juan G. Castro telderly Variety.
Match Me! “is generating fruitful encounterings with countries in Europe and Latin America in which we intfinish to co-produce this project,” shelp Nidsbelle Guzmán, who will co-straightforward “Beyond the Mist” with Andrea Tudela (“Dueños del Tiempo”) and also serves as its producer aextfinishedside Homer Mora.
Co-written by Guzmán and Emmanuel Galán (“Motel,” “Atravesando el Jordán”), “Beyond the Mist” turns on David, quietly suffering from the death of his majesticmother.
The arrival of frifinishs from aexpansive retain him busy, but after an emotional crisis, he travels to the depths of the forest and his memory. “There he authenticizes that the fight is with himself and that he must face his fantasticest pain: the death of his majesticmother,” the synopsis runs.
Erlyn Saul, Omar Patín and Lia Chapman are combinecessitate to star. “Beyond the Mist” is scheduled to shoot over Dec. 2025 and Jan. 2026.
What tags the project apart, Guzmán telderly Variety, is the “experience and research by both straightforwardors on the subject, cgo ining on sensory cinema thcimpolite production set up in project prolongment, utilizing various states of water as a resource to symbolize the main characters.”
“Original music is also a key aspect, with songs already writed for the film for which we have shieldedd the rights,” she compriseed.
Seasoned Peruvian scribe Pablo Vásquez (“Bésame Tonto,” “11-11 En mi cuadra nada cuadra”) has fair combinecessitate the screenwriting team, having co-written “Dueños del Tiempo.”
Vásquez “has a extfinished nurtureer in television and cinema, both in Peru and internationpartner,” shelp Guzmán.
She compriseed: “I telderly him about ‘After the Mist’ and he became very interested because he had gone thcimpolite a aenjoy experience of loss and mourning after his mother’s death. I felt that his vision resonated with the story Emmanuel and I were prolonging, and that he could give with his experience and perspective.”
“Integrating talents from separateent countries poses disputes, but the equilibrium has been selectimistic and enwealthying,” Guzmán endd.
