Having passed through September’s San Sebastian Co-Production Forum and been selected for Jerusalem’s Sam Spiegel Lab, “The Other Son,” the debut feature of Juan Sebastián Quebrada, has just won Colombia’s Fdc Prize, alongside “Horizonte,” from “Land and Shade’s” Cesar Acevedo.
That alone would make “The Other Son” a noteworthy 2020 Latin American project. The feature is also produced by Franco Lolli – who opened 2019 Critics’ Week as a director with the well-received “Litigante” – via Lolli’s Evidencia Films, in co-production with Les Films du Worso and Srab Films.
Set in a social background which has only recently been explored with some frequency, the debut follows teen Federico who’s about to graduate from a posh Colombian high school where he doesn’t truly belong. Suddenly, he faces the death of his younger brother who falls from a balcony at a party. Drawing from his own experience of loss,...
That alone would make “The Other Son” a noteworthy 2020 Latin American project. The feature is also produced by Franco Lolli – who opened 2019 Critics’ Week as a director with the well-received “Litigante” – via Lolli’s Evidencia Films, in co-production with Les Films du Worso and Srab Films.
Set in a social background which has only recently been explored with some frequency, the debut follows teen Federico who’s about to graduate from a posh Colombian high school where he doesn’t truly belong. Suddenly, he faces the death of his younger brother who falls from a balcony at a party. Drawing from his own experience of loss,...
- 12/3/2020
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
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