EXCLUSIVE: A Vivid Future (Un futuro brillante), the second movie by Uruguayan director Lucía Garibaldi, has been picked up for world gross sales by South American-based gross sales company Compañía de Cine.
Described as a “boundary-pushing and visually placing South American sci-fi movie”, A Vivid Future is produced by Isabel García and Pancho Magnou Arnábal of the Uruguayan firm Montelona, in co-production with Cimarrón (Argentina) and Achtung Panda! (Germany). The movie can have its world premiere within the Viewpoints part of this 12 months’s Tribeca Movie Pageant.
Garibaldi is finest recognized for her 2019 characteristic The Sharks (Los tiburones), which debuted at Sundance. Garibaldi received the Finest Director Award within the World Cinema Dramatic Competitors at Sundance.
Martina Passeggi stars in A Vivid Future alongside Soledad Pelayo (The Freshly Minimize Grass), Sofía Gala Castiglione (Alanis), and Alfonso Tort (The Freshly Minimize Grass). The movie’s plot follows Elisa, one of many final younger ladies chosen to go North—a promised land the place historical past is being made. Everybody, together with her beloved mom, eagerly awaits her departure. However Elisa quickly realizes she doesn’t need to go away—and that merely saying so will not be sufficient.
The acquisition deal was locked by Paulina Portela, CEO of Compañía de Cine, and the movie’s producers Isabel García and Pancho Magnou Arnábal.
“A Vivid Future is the primary Uruguayan movie taken on by our newly established company primarily based in Montevideo, Uruguay,” Portela mentioned in a press release. “We’re drawn to tales that problem audiences, and we’re particularly impressed by the imaginative and prescient of a filmmaker like Lucía Garibaldi, who invitations us to interrupt away from acquainted stereotypes by incorporating a crucial contact of fantasy for our instances.”
