Laura Baumeister’s debut world premiered at Toronto.
Brussels-based Best Friend Forever has scored a slew of sales for Laura Baumeister’s feature debut Daughter of Rage, the first fiction feature shot by a female Nicaraguan-born director.
The Spanish-language coming of age tale, whose original title is La Hija de Todas Las Rabias, follows a young girl growing up on a vast garbage dump in Nicaragua.
Best Friend Forever has sold the film to Tamasa Distribution in France, Trigon Film in Switzerland, A Contracorriente Films in Spain, Interior 13 Cine in Mexico, Stroll Films in Japan and HBO for Eastern Europe.
Brussels-based Best Friend Forever has scored a slew of sales for Laura Baumeister’s feature debut Daughter of Rage, the first fiction feature shot by a female Nicaraguan-born director.
The Spanish-language coming of age tale, whose original title is La Hija de Todas Las Rabias, follows a young girl growing up on a vast garbage dump in Nicaragua.
Best Friend Forever has sold the film to Tamasa Distribution in France, Trigon Film in Switzerland, A Contracorriente Films in Spain, Interior 13 Cine in Mexico, Stroll Films in Japan and HBO for Eastern Europe.
- 2/19/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired Laura Baumeister’s feature debut “Daughter of Rage” ahead of its world premiere at Toronto and San Sebastian film festivals.
Baumeister previously directed the shorts “Isabel im Winter” which played at Cannes Critics’ Week in 2014 and “Ombligo De Agua” which screened in Rotterdam and Clermont-Ferrand in 2018.
The Spanish-language film follows Maria, an 11-year-old girl who lives with her mother Lilibeth at the edge of a massive waste-disposal site in Nicaragua. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local thug. After the deal falls through, Maria is dropped off by her mother at a recycling center in the city and realizes her mother won’t be coming back for her. Feeling lost, bewildered and angry, Maria meets Tadeo, an imaginative new friend who is determined to help her to reunite with her mother.
“We are thrilled to be working...
Baumeister previously directed the shorts “Isabel im Winter” which played at Cannes Critics’ Week in 2014 and “Ombligo De Agua” which screened in Rotterdam and Clermont-Ferrand in 2018.
The Spanish-language film follows Maria, an 11-year-old girl who lives with her mother Lilibeth at the edge of a massive waste-disposal site in Nicaragua. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local thug. After the deal falls through, Maria is dropped off by her mother at a recycling center in the city and realizes her mother won’t be coming back for her. Feeling lost, bewildered and angry, Maria meets Tadeo, an imaginative new friend who is determined to help her to reunite with her mother.
“We are thrilled to be working...
- 8/22/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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