Venice Horizons Title ‘Blanquita’ Drops International Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)

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Holly Jones Coinciding with its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has provided Variety with an exclusive peek at the trailer for Chilean writer-director Fernando Guzzoni’s (“Jesus”) thriller, “Blanquita.” Based on the young witness at the center of the Spinak case, a scandal involving Chilean pedophilia and prostitution networks that rocked the country, the film grapples with morality and the struggle towards justice for those without means.

In the film, Blanca (Laura López) leads investigators, and the public, on a baffling journey as she plants herself at the center of a trial against powerful politicians. “I think that what seduced me about the case is how a girl who was an outsider kept the entire Chilean community on edge for almost a year,” relayed Guzzoni.  “Her appearance in the case seemed very performative to me and how she, to some extent, built a character that interpreted a story that belonged to someone else but that was also related to her own pain.

I really like the idea that she’s a heroine with double standards, who tells a half-truth to achieve justice and dignity in the face of a system that discriminates against her, excludes her and where institutions and power operate with a class bias.

It seems to me that she represents a fight between David and Goliath, that her figure is not just a victim or a sanctified woman, but rather a complex human being.” As the trailer begins we see Father Mañuel (Alejandro Goic) looking on through a glass window as professionals evaluate an abused adolescent he looks after, Carlos (Ariel Grandón), concluding he’s too drug-addled to testify on his behalf in any trial.