Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorJayro Bustamente’s politically charged horror film La Llorona, which won the Venice Days sidebar at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is Guatemala’s selection to the 2021 International Oscar race.
It’s the second film by Bustamente to get his country’s Oscar submission, after his debut feature Ixcanul in 2015.His latest film fuses the Latin American Llorona myth and modern reality in an exposé of the genocidal atrocities against the Mayan community in Guatemala.
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