Cineplex has snapped up ‘The Cry of Serankwa' for Colombia and the rest of Latin America, swooping on the second feature as a director of Yull Nuñez, star of Ciro Guerra's 'The Wind Journeys'
\n\nFilms about Colombian Indigenous communities are few and far between, with perhaps Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s 2018 “Birds of Passage” among the last of the large-scale ones.
\n\nFor Colombian multi-hyphenate Yull Núñez, whose credits include “Birds of Passage” and Guerra’s 2009 “The Wind Journeys” where he played the lead, his sophomore feature, “The Cry of Serankwa” (“El grito de Serankwa”), aims to approach the scale and ambition of those films.
\n\nLatin American distributor Cineplex has snapped up the Colombian and Latin American rights to the Indigenous eco-thriller, which won three industry prizes at the Santiago Film Festival (Sanfic) where it competed in the WIP Iberoamericana section.
\n\n“From the moment we read the script for ‘The Cry of Serankwa,’ we felt a strong connection to its story and its portrayal of the sacred territories of Colombia’s Iku, Wiwa, Kogui and Kankwamo communities in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta,” said Cineplex’s Elba McAllister.
\n\n“The film explores our relationship with nature, the preservation of ancestral traditions and…
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