Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No stranger to films with sociopolitical resonance, Bustamante’s La Llorona examined the genocide against the indigenous Maya ...
‘When you live in a world where injustice is currency, you have to go into magical worlds to have hope,’ says the Guatemalan director No one tells a ghost story like Jayro Bustamante. The Guatemalan ...
A ghostly apparition clamored for justice in Jayro Bustamante’s blazing political horror “La Llorona,” about the genocide of Indigenous people in Guatemala. In the genre, the Central American auteur ...
While fleeing a neglectful household, thirteen-year-old Rita is placed in an oppressive state-run orphanage. Rita’s arrival provides a glimmer of hope to the girls inside, who share a prophecy that an ...
Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is unafraid of using the horror genre to tell deeply important and political stories about contemporary Guatemala and its tumultuous. His 2019 feature film La ...
At the Panama Int’l Film Festival (IFF Panama) to present his latest film “Rita” and give a masterclass, Guatemala’s acclaimed filmmaker Jayro Bustamante sat down with Variety to discuss his upcoming ...
EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks’ genre streamer Shudder has acquired the fantasy pic Rita from Jayro Bustamante, the writer-director behind its Golden Globe-nominated La Llorona, ahead of the film’s Fantasia ...
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