‘Birds of Passage’s’ Cristina Gallego Produces Laura Mora’s Next (EXCLUSIVE)

Cristina Gallego, producer-director of 2018 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hit “Birds of Passage,” is set to produce “Kings of the World,” the second feature by Colombia’s Laura Mora. Mora’s “Killing Jesus” marked one of the most notable of recent Latin American debuts.

Shooting this month in Medellin and Bajo Cauca, Colombia, “Kings” is set up at Gallego’s Bogota-based Ciudad Lunar, the shingle behind Oscar-nominated “Embrace of the Serpent” and Mirlanda Torres’ La Selva Producciones (“Dirty Hands”).

It is co-produced by Mer Films (Norway), Iris Prods. (Luxembourg), Talipot Studio (Mexico), Tu Vas Voir (France) and made in association with Caracol Televisión.

“Kings of the World” is being sold by Film Factory Entertainment, a sales agent on “The Weeping Woman,” “Wild Tales” and “The Clan.”

Written by Mora and María Camila Arias (“Birds of Passage”), “Kings” is described as an anarchic adventure film. It turns on five Medellin street kids, also five kings without a kingdom, law or family who take off looking for the Promised Land.

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A subversive, fantastic tale, about a “savage and lovely clan, who navigate between reality and delirium,” the film is a “trip to nowhere where everything happens,” the synopsis runs.

“Especially when they are pushed out of the frame, humans are always finding new forms of lovingly connecting. So sprout romantic ideals that inspire us to reclaim all that’s been denied to us,” Mora said.

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