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Venice Grand Jury Winner ‘New Order’ Acquired by Neon for North America

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Dave McNary Film ReporterNeon has acquired North American rights to Michel Franco’s dystopian social thriller “New Order.” The movie was this year’s winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.Set in a near-future Mexico City while protests rage, “New Order” focuses on a high society family preparing for a wedding when a former employee seeking emergency medical funds intrudes on the festivities.

But soon the party is unable to keep the reckoning at bay, followed by a swift disintegration of law and order defined first by class lines.“New Order” is written, produced and directed by Franco, who conceived the project six years ago.

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