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I WILL MUTATE LIKE A JUNGLE ANIMAL

MUTARÉ COMO ANIMAL DE MONTE

By Héctor SILVA NÚÑEZ

VENEZUELA FILM HUB - as PROMO

Drama - Development 2023

After a long absence, Brayan (20) returns from the city to his decaying Afrodescendant village, in a remote Venezuelan jungle. Torn between leaving his country and embracing ancestral ties, he sets out in search of answers hidden in the jungle depths.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- VENEZUELA, FRANCE, ECUADOR
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Héctor SILVA NÚÑEZ
- Producer(s)
- Rodolfo COVA (Genuino Films), Eva CHILLÓN (POMME HURLANTE FILMS)
- Synopsis
- After years of living in the city, Brayan (20) returns to his afrodescendant hometown with the idea of emigrating through the nearby border. But first he must prepare to participate by playing an old family drum to honor his late father's soul in an upcoming religious procession. As he reintegrates in the village’s dynamics and reunites with his mother and grandfather, Brayan feels alienated from what once was his safe place, and feels how a wound he thought forgotten now reopens inside himself. When he hears about the ruins of an abandoned colonial temple in the jungle, the place where his father was found dead, Brayan sets out in search of long-awaited answers.
- Partners & financing
- ARRI International Support Program ($55k)
  IBEREX Development Fund ($4.7k)
  Joshua Yablon ($38.4k)