FiGa Films Sells ‘Nudo Mixteco’ to HBO Max, ‘Straight to VHS’ to IndiePix (EXCLUSIVE)

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Anna Marie de la Fuente Miami-based FiGa Films has announced a flurry of sales and acquisition activity during the EFM. Among its stellar pics is ‘Nudo Mixteco,” the first indigenous film it has handled, which HBO Max has picked up for the U.S., to bow in May.Uruguayan doc, “Straight to VHS,” winner of the prestigious critics award, the Fipresci, at the Buenos Aires indie film fest, Bafici, has been sold to IndiePix for the U.S.

It also acquired the film on which the doc is based upon, “Act of Violence on a Young Journalist,” that will be released as an extra on home video.“We are delighted to collaborate with IndiePix and with their enthusiasm for ‘Straight to VHS,’” said FiGa Films’ Sandro Fiorin, adding: “Their plans for a home-video release full of extras sounds like an instant collectible item.

Long live physical media!” World premiering in the Fantasia sidebar Documentaries from the Edge, Emilio Silva Torres’ feature debut “Straight to VHS” takes audiences down the rabbit hole of his investigation into a rare film that spawned a cult following in Uruguay.The documentary, co-produced by Uruguay’s Tarkiofilm and Argentina’s Trivial Media, delves into the mystery behind the making of the quirky film “Act of Violence on a Young Journalist,” released straight to video in 1989, and its even more mysterious filmmaker, Manuel Lamas.

Both films were presented as a double bill in Canada’s 25th Fantasia Int’l Film Festival, marking the first time “Act of Violence…” ever screened outside of Uruguay.“Nudo Mixteco,” which world premiered at the 38th Miami Film Festival last year, is set in San Mateo, a village of the Mixtec Oaxaca where its Mexican indigenous director, Angeles Cruz, grew up.