Luis Mandoki Horror Movie ‘Presencias’ Swooped On By 102 Distribution

Rome-based 102 Distribution has taken on worldwide gross sales of Mexican characteristic “Presencias,” the corporate introduced at this week’s American Movie Market.

Directed by Mexico’s Luis Mandoki, and starring Academy Award nominee Yalitza Aparicio (“Roma”)  and Goya Award winner Alberto Ammann (“Narcos: Mexico,” “The Yr of Fury,” “Cell 211”), the movie is an ViX+ authentic film. The title premiered completely within the U.S., Mexico, and in most of Spanish-speaking Latin America, on Sept. 7.

The horror-thriller revolves round Victor, a younger and well-known actor, and his spouse Alicia, who return to the place the place he and his household spent each glad and tragic instances at a lake the place his sister drowned. Quickly he’s haunted by nightmares.

Victor wakes up in a hospital, the place he’s instructed by a police detective that his spouse has died pregnant together with his youngster. Victor can not keep in mind what occurred.

Because the weeks go, the investigation stalls. Decided to search out out the reality, Victor escapes the hospital to return to the cabin. However the fact seems to be worse than his nightmare. 

Mandoki way back established himself in Hollywood after which, as soon as extra in Mexico.  His Hollywood movies embody “White Palace” (1990) with Susan Sarandon and James Spader; “Born Yesterday” (1991) with Melanie Griffith and John Goodman; and “’When a Man Loves a Girl” (1994) with Meg Ryan and Andy García. He has since directed a number of options in Mexico, together with “Gaby: A True Story” and “Harmless Voices.” He’s at present growing a number of options nationally and internationally. 

102’s present titles take within the drama “Crimson Sneakers” by Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser, which performed in Venice this 12 months, and the Berlinale autism-themed movie “A Faculty in Cerro Hueso,” by Betania Cappato.

102 began life as an Italian manufacturing and distribution firm, targeted on buying and producing Italian and worldwide movies, in addition to exploiting the rights internationally.

It lately broadened its scope by buying multi-territories rights for choose titles, in addition to dealing with worldwide gross sales, and generally the discharge in different international locations, together with the U.S., Canada, the U.Ok. and China. 

This 12 months’s AFM runs Nov. 1-6.