Topic, the fast-growing streaming service from First Look Media, has acquired North American streaming rights to Anabel Rodriguez Rios’ documentary feature debut, “Once Upon a Time in Venezuela.” The film, which explores the decline of the Venezuelan fishing village of Congo Mirador and, more broadly, the country’s complicated current political and social climate, made its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. It is Venezuela’s 2021 Academy Award submission for best international feature film, and was shortlisted for the 2020 IDA Documentary Awards. Topic plans an aggressive Oscar push for both documentary and foreign categories.
On Lake Maracaibo, beneath the mysterious silent Catatumbo lightning, the village of Congo Mirador is preparing for parliamentary elections. For streetwise local businesswoman and Chavist party representative Tamara every vote counts, fought by all means, while for opposition-supporting teacher Natalie, politics is a weapon unsuccessfully attempting to force her from her job. And with her sharp eyes,...
On Lake Maracaibo, beneath the mysterious silent Catatumbo lightning, the village of Congo Mirador is preparing for parliamentary elections. For streetwise local businesswoman and Chavist party representative Tamara every vote counts, fought by all means, while for opposition-supporting teacher Natalie, politics is a weapon unsuccessfully attempting to force her from her job. And with her sharp eyes,...
- 11/30/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The village of Congo Mirador on Lake Maracaibo, in Venezuela, is entirely built on stilts, with the houses just inches above the water, so that everywhere you look there is reflection - captured with artistic verve by day and night by director Anabel Rodriguez Rios and Bad Hair cinematographer John Márquez. But we will come to learn it is more than just the skies above and the famous 'thunderless' Catatumbo lightning that are reflected in this tiny fishing settlement because although it may be a remote arm of the Venezuelan body politic, it mirrors a political and environmental malaise that is coursing through the veins of the country.
Even here, in a place that has only a few hundred souls, the modern global phenomenon of tribal, combative politics is very much in evidence. The two halves of the coin are represented by Tamara, a middle-aged leader of the Chavist party - whose.
Even here, in a place that has only a few hundred souls, the modern global phenomenon of tribal, combative politics is very much in evidence. The two halves of the coin are represented by Tamara, a middle-aged leader of the Chavist party - whose.
- 10/28/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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