Tribeca Double Winner Michelle Garza Cervera Brings Feature Debut ‘Huesera’ to Fantasia
27.07.2022 - 21:43
/ variety.com
JD Linville With barely time to celebrate two well-earned wins – including New Narrative Director – at Tribeca, horror darling Michelle Garza Cervera will be screening in selection at Fantasia with her feature debut “Huesera.” The film will have played BIFAN and Switzerland’s Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival, where it will continue the ominous telling of Valeria, played by Natalia Solián (“500 Millions of Red Shoes”), whose dream of motherhood disintegrates as she is cursed by a dark power. As darkness and evil encroach, she’s forced to confide in a tradition which may be her only hope.Three years ago, Garza Cervera graced Fantasia with her short “The Original,” and “Huesera” sees its themes of love, desire, and death revisited in color, now with a kaleidoscopic complexity. Cinematographer Nur Rubio Sherwell uses color itself and framing to shape mood and composers Gibrán Androide and Cabeza De Vaca employ foley to paint some moments with silence to frightening effect.
Directed by Garza Cervera and co-written with Abia Castillo, “Huesera” is produced by Machete Cine (“Leap Year, La Jaula de Oro”), Disruptiva Films and Señor Z. In another source of large caché, XYZ Films is handling the U.S. theatrical release.
Variety spoke with Garza Cervera ahead of the film’s participation at Fantasia.Can you talk about the co-writing process for “Huesera”? I started writing it in 2017. I learned some family history about my grandmother. I had never heard her story.
She was a woman who made a decision similar to Valeria’s. And hearing her story moved me so much, I felt I needed to make a film about this kind of process. Then I met my co-writer thanks to a work trip where we had to share a room in Acapulco.
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