LOS CABOS –New York’s Dodgeville Films, producer of Sundance selected “To Be Takei,” is teaming with Mexico’s Varios Lobos to produce “Ya no estoy aqui” (I’m No Longer Here”), the second movie from Mexico’s Fernando Frias (“Receta”). Written and directed by Frias, currently a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia U’s Graduate School of the Arts, “Here” was put through a 2014 Sundance Screenwriters Lab and its investor pitching Catalyst Weekend. A Spanish/English-language movie, it tracks Ulises, a 17-year-old Cholombiano – an urban tribe distinguished by a seeming sheet of straight hair pulled over their cheeks and bald back of the head – forced to emigrate from the mean streets of Mexico’s Monterrey when his elder brother is killed in gang violence. Dispatched to New York City, he quickly realizes his hometown violence is no match for his feelings of isolation and loneliness in America. Admired or mocked, his counter-culture is seen as just a commodity, and he loses a sense of self.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 21:29:38 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015