Prime Video Latin America Snags Marina de Tavira-led Drama ‘Latido’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Prime Video Latin America has snapped up streaming rights to Katina Medina Mora’s newest movie “Latido” (“Heartbeat”), starring Oscar-nominated Marina de Tavira (“Roma”).

That is the third characteristic from Medina Mora, whose credit embody episodes of Netflix hit “Emily in Paris,” Apple TV+’s “Swagger” and romantic drama, “LuTo,” her debut characteristic picked up by Netflix. Its trailer debuts completely on Selection.

“Latido,” which has its world premiere on the Mill Valley Movie Pageant and its Mexican premiere on the Morelia Movie Pageant, activates 45-year-old Leonor, performed by De Tavira, who works for an NGO that helps younger athletes. Leonor has struggled for years to conceive. She meets 16-year-old Emilia, a gifted ballet dancer, performed by Camila Calónico, who aces her audition however whose world falls aside when she finds out she is pregnant.  Leonor and Emilia make a pact to share the being pregnant course of. What begins as a transactional relationship evolves into one thing deeper.

The movie displays on the vital problems with teenage being pregnant, infertility, adoption, particularly in Mexico the place the method is mired in purple tape, and of grandmothers who turn out to be inadvertent caregivers when their kids bear kids. It additionally feedback on the well being system that hardly ever pays consideration to ladies and their particular wants. 

“It portrays the complexity of human relationships, from their shortcomings and affections, hoping to generate reflections and questions that may lead us to empathize extra deeply with the ladies,” stated Medina in her director’s assertion.  

The drama is produced by Inna Payán’s Animal de Luz, which she based in 2011. Amongst Animal de Luz’s credit are lauded immigrant drama “La Jaula de Oro,” co-produced with Machete Prods.; Everardo Gonzalez’s harrowing documentary “La Libertad del diablo”; Beatriz Sanchis’ “Todos estan muertos” and Samuel Kishi’s “Los lobos.”

“‘Latido’ is a film that explores motherhood. It tells the story of a girl who can’t have kids and desperately needs to turn out to be a mom with all her coronary heart. However, there’s a younger woman who unintentionally turns into pregnant and doesn’t wish to have the child. In actuality, it’s a serendipity as a result of they determine to make a deal to attain one thing and find yourself discovering one thing else,” Payán instructed Selection.

“The film was created with a wholly feminine crew: Nur Rubio in cinematography, Elva Algravez in manufacturing design, and produced on my own, Katina Medina Mora, and Marina de Tavira. We’re very proud to be a part of this characteristic movie,” she stated.

“As a producer, I really feel extraordinarily happy to have in my fingers a robust story that delves into the individuality of two beings and addresses a really related matter in right now’s public discourse: Girls’s relationship with motherhood,” she added.  

Two different Animal de Luz initiatives are going to Morelia: the most recent documentary by Gonzalez, “Una jauria llamado Ernesto” (“A Wolfpack Referred to as Ernesto”), in regards to the kids who’re drawn into Mexico’s underworld, some educated to turn out to be sicarios (assassins), collectively known as ‘Ernesto,’ and the 1000’s who lose their lives too quickly. 

Drama “Todo el silencio” (“All of the Silence”), is the debut characteristic of award-winning theatre director Diego del Rio based mostly on a screenplay by “La Jaula de Oro” author, Lucia Carreras. 

It activates Miriam who teaches signal language within the mornings and within the afternoons, participates in a theater manufacturing. Her girlfriend Lola, her mother and father and lots of associates are deaf however her world begins to shatter when she finds out that she too is shedding her listening to and refuses to simply accept her destiny.