EXCLUSIVE: A Bright Future (Un futuro brillante), the second film by Uruguayan director Lucía Garibaldi, has been picked up for world sales by South American-based sales agency Compañía de Cine.
Described as a “boundary-pushing and visually striking South American sci-fi film”, A Bright Future is produced by Isabel García and Pancho Magnou Arnábal of the Uruguayan company Montelona, in co-production with Cimarrón (Argentina) and Achtung Panda! (Germany). The film will have its world premiere in the Viewpoints section of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
Garibaldi is best known for her 2019 feature The Sharks (Los tiburones), which debuted at Sundance. Garibaldi won the Best Director Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance.
Martina Passeggi stars in A Bright Future alongside Soledad Pelayo (The Freshly Cut Grass), Sofía Gala Castiglione (Alanis), and Alfonso Tort (The Freshly Cut Grass). The film’s plot follows Elisa, one of the last young women chosen to go North—a promised land where history is being made. Everyone, including her beloved mother, eagerly awaits her departure. But Elisa soon realizes she doesn’t want to leave—and that simply saying so is not enough.
The acquisition deal was locked by Paulina Portela, CEO of Compañía de Cine, and the film’s producers Isabel García and Pancho Magnou Arnábal.
“A Bright Future is the first Uruguayan film taken on by our newly established agency based in Montevideo, Uruguay,” Portela said in a statement. “We are drawn to stories that challenge audiences, and we’re especially inspired by the vision of a filmmaker like Lucía Garibaldi, who invites us to break away from familiar stereotypes by incorporating a necessary touch of fantasy for our times.”
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