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EXCLUSIVE: Luke Brawley’s non-fiction company Indox has added two Visions Du Réel competitors titles, Say Goodbye and The World Upside Down, to its slate alongside Whispers in Might, the newest characteristic by Dongnan Chen (14 Work, Singing within the Wilderness).
Directed by Paloma López Carrillo in her characteristic debut, Say Goodbye explores the grief of a household after their father disappears following his deportation from their house in Utah. The movie was produced by Abril López Carrillo (State of Silence). Carrillo is finest identified for her credit as an editor on movies like Midnight Household and The Golden Dream.
“Say Goodbye has been lucky to search out necessary allies at each stage of its creation. Reaching this second of launch and collaborating with Luke encourages us drastically,” Carrillo stated in an announcement. “The best way Indox helps documentaries with new inventive approaches is really real and dedicated. We’re very excited to collaborate collectively and discover the very best path in festivals for Say Goodbye”.
The World Upside Down is directed by Agostina Di Luciano and Leon Schwitter. The movie tells the story of a small city and its residents as they grapple with mysterious occasions and search elusive solutions.
“We’re delighted to have Luke from Indox as our distribution companion on our movie, The World Upside Down,” the administrators stated. “The movie investigates tales, storytelling, and oral historical past as one among its core topics and makes use of actuality and fiction in a really playful method, which makes it slip by means of the overall style definitions. Luke’s imaginative and prescient of cinema and his cautious choice for inventive and really particular person documentaries and hybrid movies makes him the proper collaborator for our movie and we hope it may be found by a broad viewers.”
Whispers in Might can also be the primary characteristic boarded by Indox within the manufacturing stage. The pic is presently in post-production. It’s produced by Jia Zhao (Kabul: Metropolis within the Wind). The movie blends types, utilizing coming-of-age story and highway film conventions to discover the lifetime of a younger woman in rural China who, after residing alone and experiencing her first interval, embarks on a journey along with her two finest buddies to discover a new skirt for her menarche ceremony—a symbolic ceremony of passage into maturity.
Discussing the movie, producer Zhao stated: “Every movie is a journey, and it takes rather a lot for the group to get this far. At markets and alongside the way in which, we’ve felt {that a} story like this wants a tailored partnership to achieve the best viewers—these drawn to its inventive type and depth—who may not be discovered within the first place by means of conventional routes. That’s why we’re excited to embark on this new journey with Indox —inspired by their perception within the movie and their intuition to navigate it by means of the pageant panorama, towards the eyes and hearts it was meant to achieve.”
