France’s Urban Factory and Mexico’s Fidelio Movies have boarded Colombian filmmaker Mauricio Leiva-Cock’s psychological thriller “Los Eastman,” chosen for the Implausible Spherical Robin at Cannes’ Fantastic Pavilion.
Based on City Manufacturing unit’s Frédéric Corvez, they found the undertaking throughout Colombia’s BAM Producers Assembly, the place accomplice Florencia Gil served as a mentor. “This project stood out from the rest for its ambition and approach. It is rare and exciting to read a true page-turner. Mauricio masterfully uses elements of horror to portray and expose toxic class struggle — which, in my view, lies at the very heart of the genre.”
Set throughout a devastating pandemic, the drama follows a housekeeper trapped in servitude by her rich employers who unleashes a violent revenge. Because the bloodshed escalates, she should select between freedom and the corrupting privilege that when imprisoned her.
Leiva-Cock defined that the story was impressed by an actual newspaper article he and co-writer Diego González Cruz found in the course of the COVID pandemic. The article described a rich Bogotá household kidnapping their housekeeper below the pretext of defending her by strict security protocols. “The film begins as a social drama before spiraling into psychological thriller, horror and ultimately what we call Social Gore.”
The undertaking highlights rising worldwide curiosity in elevated Latin American style cinema mixing political commentary, suspense, violence and social critique.
For Leiva-Cock and his companions Sebastían Hernández, Juan Manuel Betancourt and Daniela Echeverri of their new manufacturing firm Cuatro Ojos, it’s important that their relationship with City Manufacturing unit started on the BAM Producers Assembly organized by Colombia’s Ministry of Tradition.
“This is a real example of how programs led by [promo entity] Proimágenes and the Ministry of Culture can have a tangible impact on the development and internationalization of Colombian projects,” he stated, including: “It also feels very meaningful to have closed the deal during the Fantastic Pavilion at Cannes. Mórbido and [Fantastic Pavilion executive director] Pablo Guisa Koestinger have been important supporters of ‘Los Eastman’ and we’re very thankful for their continued support.”
“We’re also especially excited that France is becoming such an important partner in bringing the film to life and that we’ll be in Cannes with Urban Factory at this stage of the process.”
Having David Figueroa Garcia and Mauro Mueller of Fidelio Movies in Mexico additionally boarding the drama is smart, he added, given his intensive work in Mexico, together with as head author on the Worldwide Emmy-winning “Falco” and “The Head of Joaquín Murrieta” for Prime Video.
Hernández is an editor of “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Season 2, and Laura Mora’s San Sebastian Golden Shell winner “The Kings of the World.” Betancourt is a VFX supervisor on “Memory” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and “Horizonte”(TIFF).
Echeverri, who served as an EP on “Anhell 69 “(Venice Critics’ Week) and produced the Berlinale-winning short “Uli” and “Pelotón Trueno,” chosen for the brief movie competitors at this yr’s Cannes, would be the lead producer on the movie.
“Los Eastman” has participated in such applications as Sitges FanPitch and the Sanfic Mórbido Lab the place it acquired two awards. Final yr, it took house 13 awards on the BAM Manufacturing Conferences. It’s going to even be current at BAM 2026 in July as one of many chosen fiction initiatives.
The 79th Cannes Movie Pageant kicked off on Might 12 and wraps on Might twenty third.
