At San Sebastian's Co-Production Forum, ’Looking for Sam’ 'wanders between fiction and documentary, where memory and identity blur and transform one another,' says Rondón of her follow-up to her 2013 San Sebastian Golden Shell winner 'Bad Hair'
\n\nMexico’s Martfilms has boarded “Looking for Sam,” Mariana Rondón’s follow-up to hedr San Sebastian Golden Shell winner “Bad Hair.”
\n\nA docu-fiction hybrid bound for San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, the drama follows two lead actors from Mariana Rondón’s 2013 San Sebastian Golden Shell winner “Bad Hair” (“Pelo Malo”): Sam Lange who played the child Junior in the coming-of-age drama and the actress who played his mother, Samantha Castillo. Both of them were forced to leave Venezuela.
\n\n“’Looking for Sam’ wanders between fiction and documentary, where memory and identity blur and transform one another. It forces us to ask ourselves who we are when we leave behind who we once were,” Rondón told Variety.
\n\n“The film is about crossing borders: geographical, temporal, bodily and borders of identity. We are not simply looking for Sam. We are searching for the place where the person we once were ends and the person we are begins,” said her producing partner Marite Ugás of Sudaca Films, who…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/