SAN SEBASTIAN — Already backed by a four-way production partnership spanning Nicaragua, Mexico, the Netherlands and Germany, Nicaraguan Laura Baumeister’s stirring feature debut project “Da…
Prize for San Sebastian’s pix-on-post competition, went to another alumna of Mexico’s Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica film school, Fernanda Valadez for “Non Distinguishing Features.” an extraordinary achievement for an already celebrated institution.
The rubbish dump works as a microcosm for Nicaragua’s society at large, an ecological disaster on the banks of the country’s biggest lake and a mark of political disorder and sexism. Reacting to her screenplay, “some people have objected that a mother never abandons her child, but nobody’s said that about a father,” Baumeister commented to“Daughter of Rage” has a daughter searching for her mother; “Non Distinguishing Features” has a mother searching for her son, missing en route to the U.S.
The women producers’ support “happened organically. It was women who approached us at festivals, saying they wanted to be on board,” said Baumeister.
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