Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
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Naman Ramachandran Paz Vega-starrer “Death Has No Master,” a Venezuela-set thriller from director Jorge Thielen Armand, is participating in TIFFCOM’s Tokyo Gap-Financing Market, as the producers seek to secure the final 30% of the film’s $1.2 million budget.
The film, which previously participated in the Venice Production Bridge’s Gap-Financing Market, stars Vega as a woman who returns to Venezuela after two decades to sell her family’s cacao plantation, has recently shifted its shooting location to Colombia.
The story follows her character Carolina’s confrontation with former workers who have occupied the land, leading to a dangerous power struggle that forces her to face both past trauma from a kidnapping and her own violent impulses.
The project marks Armand’s third feature following the acclaimed “La Soledad” and “La Fortaleza.” “My films are vehicles to investigate a broken identity – that of Venezuelans today – pieces of a puzzle I hope become the solid ground to stand on and, with time and distance, provide an image without cracks,” Armand tells Variety. “I’ve been abroad for over a decade, but Venezuela’s violence continues to haunt me every day. ‘Death Has No Master‘ continues some of the themes in my previous works, but this film is told from the perspective of a woman that has been exiled for 20 years.
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