Michel Franco, ‘Olmo’ Director Fernando Eimbcke Reteam for Mexico City-Set Feature ‘Moscas’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comBen Croll Hot off his searing social indictment “Dreams,” Michel Franco will next produce “Moscas” (“Flies”) for director Fernando Eimbcke.
Now finishing pre-production, with cameras set to roll next month, the project follows an 8-year-old boy and a middle-aged woman as they crisscross contemporary Mexico City.
Eimbcke wrote the script with frequent collaborator Vanesa Garnica, and will produce alongside Franco and Eréndira Núñez Larios through their respective Kinotitlán and Teorema banners. “I’ve known Michel for a long time,” says Eimbcke. “We started out together, making shorts three decades ago, and I’ve learned a lot from him.
Our work is very different – and l love that — so after not making a film for 10 years, I wanted to ask how to be more prolific!” In 2004, Eimbcke broke out of Cannes’ Critics Week with his feature debut, “Duck Season.” Shot in black and white, and set entirely within a Mexico City apartment, the film received widespread critical and festival acclaim, prompting Alfonso Cuarón to partner with Warner Independent Pictures to release the film stateside.
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