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THE WHISTLER

EL SILBON: ORIGENES

By Gisberg BERMUDEZ

ALIEF - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World / PROD

Drama - Completed 2018

A father wrestles with a curse and saving his daughter's soul from a phantasmagorical figure.

Festival del Cine Venezolano 2018

Winner: Special Press Award for Best Film, Best Make Up, Best Cast

BARS 2018

Best Ibero American Film

Fantaspoa 2019

Latin America

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Second film
- Countries
- VENEZUELA, MEXICO, USA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 83 mn
- Director(s)
- Gisberg BERMUDEZ
- Writer(s)
- Gisyerg BERMUDEZ, Gisberg BERMUDEZ, Irina DENDIOUK
- Cast
- Daniela BUENO, Eliane CHIPIA , Fernando GAVIRIA, Leonidas URBINA
- Producer(s)
- Gisberg BERMUDEZ (La Rue)
- Synopsis
- Based on a South American folk tale “The Whistler” is a phantasmagorical figure that wanders at night famed for terrorizing the drunk, the unfaithful and children, whom he’s known to feast upon. In Gisberg’s retelling of this popular legend; in a race against the clock, a father struggles to find the origins of The Whistler’s curse to stop the gradual possession of his daughter by the supernatural entity.