Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s Mexico-set drama Sujo has been chosen as Mexico’s Oscar submission in the most effective worldwide characteristic movie class.
The Forge has scheduled a November 29 theatrical launch in choose US and Canadian markets on the coming-of-age drama concerning the son of a slain cartel hitman who, now a younger man after rising up in hiding, should reckon with future as his father’s legacy catches up with him. Juan Jesús Varela stars
Sujo premiered in Sundance the place it received the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Drama. It performs in San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latinos strand spotlighting movies from Latin America and AFI Latin American Movie Pageant.
Rondero, Valadez, Diana Casarreal, Jewerl Keats Ross, Devesa, Jean-Baptiste Bailly-Maitre, and Nicolas Celis served as producers.
Sujo marks the second characteristic from Rondero and Valadez after Figuring out Options, winner of the 2020 Sundance World Cinema Dramatic viewers award and particular jury award for greatest screenplay.
Alpha Violet represents worldwide rights to Sujo and beforehand struck a raft of offers.