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Colombian shaper Letrario and Spain’s Abano Producións person unveiled a caller 2D animated characteristic co-production, “Mu-Ki-Ra,” which will be spotlighted at nan 2024 Cannes’ Marché du Film Animation Day.
“Mu-Ki-Ra” was created by Colombian character and screenwriter Estefanía Piñeres Duque, who co-wrote nan screenplay pinch María Barro Guntín and is directing.
Part of nan Annecy Animation Showcase astatine Cannes Animation Day, nan movie has immoderate beardown accumulation powerfulness backing it. Galicia’s Abano Producións precocious produced Spanish auteur Alberto Vázquez’s characteristic “Unicorn Wars,” and Letrario has an awesome catalog of live-action and animated works, including Piñeres’ 2020 short movie “Color-ido,” which was an charismatic action astatine Pixelatl, AniMaze, and Rotterdam.
Several of nan film’s Spanish-language sound formed roles have been filled by actors Maria Fernanda Marín, Isa Mosquera, Carmenza Gómez, and Witsey Mena.
“Mu-Ki-Ra” takes place in a onshore haunted by monsters made of vegetation. There, Cleo, a thirteen-year-old girl, will look a horrible nightmare erstwhile her younger relative Martín is devoured by 1 of nan autochthonal beasts. With nan thief of a magical aged woman, Cleo attempts to way down Mukira, nan monster who took her brother, and bring nan boy home.
Asked astir wherever her idea for nan movie came from, Piñeres told Variety, “Our movie is inspired by Latin American puerility experiences, which are often immersed successful analyzable environments. It wishes to beryllium a ceremony of their ray and a reflection upon their darkness.”
The head says her goal with nan task is “to create a communicative that has its ain voice, representing its inheritance but besides to find a measurement to remark connected it done its euphony and ocular beingness alternatively than conscionable portraying it. Hopefully, it will link pinch children who unrecorded successful akin contexts done hope.”
Aesthetically, Piñeres says nan film’s vibrant and energetic look was inspired by “the useful of Brecht Evens and techniques of nan Emberá and Kuna peoples, and different Latin American craftsmanship.”
“Mu-Ki-Ra” is presently successful accumulation and scheduled for transportation successful 2025.
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