Matt Brodlie and Jonathan Kier’s Improve Productions has begun talks with worldwide consumers at AFM on Rita, Jayro Bustamante’s newest style title that has been chosen as Guatemala’s Oscar submission.
Bustamante’s follow-up to his horror La Llorona obtained its world premiere at Fantasia Worldwide Movie Competition in Montreal over the summer time when it received the very best cinematography award, along with a number of different awards on the circuit.
Rita brings the filmmaker’s signature mix of style and fierce social conscience. Primarily based on the lethal Guatemalan orphanage hearth that claimed the lives of 41 women in 2017, the story centres on the titular 13-year-old who flees a neglectful family and is positioned in an oppressive state-run orphanage.
Rita’s arrival offers a glimmer of hope to the women, who share a prophecy that an angel will seem to launch them. Collectively they plan to flee and expose the orphanage’s abuses of energy.
Giuliana Santa Cruz stars alongside Alejandra Vasquez, Angela Quevedo, Isabel Aldana, Sabrina De La Hoz, and Margarita Kenefic.
Bustamante produced Rita alongside Jonathan King for Concordia Studio, and Gustavo Matheu. Improve beforehand licensed Latin America to Solar Distribution, and North America, UK, and Australia to Shudder.
Bustamante received the 2021 Venice Giornate degli Autori administrators award for La Llorona, which additionally represented Guatemala and was shortlisted within the Academy’s worldwide characteristic movie class. Shudder additionally distributed that movie.