John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentFollowing on “Huesera,” a double Tribeca winner, Mexico’s Machete, headed by Edher Campos, is returning to female filmmaker social issue genre with “Cachorra,” a darkly humoured horror thriller set on the Mexico-U.S.
desert border.The feature debut of Madrid-based genre scribe and consultant Elisa Puerto Aubel, who penned Sitges Audience Award winner. “La venganza de Jairo,” “Cachorra” is one of the newest additions to a five movie 2002-23 slate at Machete, producer of Cannes Festival winners “Leap Year” and “La Jaula de Oro.” It forms part of a robust lineup at this week’s Sanfic-Mórbido Lab, which packs many of Sanfic Industria’s most commercial propositions, All of Machete’s films, three now in post-production, carry social point.
A trio – “Huesera,” “Pups” and “The Path of Silence” – show Machete driving into genre and LGBTQ themes, fast emerging as the cutting edge focuses for many of the most exciting of Latin America movies.
A break down on Machete’s 2022-23 slate:“Huesera” (Michelle Garza Cervera)“Huesera” is both genre and LGBTQ. A double winner at Tribeca, including New Narrative Director, picked up by XYZ Films for most world sales, it is surely one of the most admired Spanish-language films of the year, with sterling theatrical potential in Latin America and beyond. “A terrifying, bone-breaking body horror nightmare,”said Variety, in it a mother-to-be is forced to face her real horror: The self-denying life choices she’s made merely to fit in.
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