Anna Marie de la Fuente With Guatemala as this year’s guest country of honor at the 36th Guadalajara Int’l Film Festival (FICG), the festival will be screening more than a dozen films from this tiny Central American country, including one of its recent standouts, Justin Lerner’s “Cadejo Blanco.” The female-driven crime drama stages its world premiere Oct.
3 at the fest where it competes in the official Ibero-American Features section.Although born in Boston, Lerner’s ties with Guatemala run deep, where he even proposed to his French-American wife at the edge of a volcano.
More importantly, he helped with the creation of a film school there in 2016 where he was its first film professor. It was while teaching there when one of his students.
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