EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales outfit Luxbox has acquired international sales for Mexican filmmaker Bruno Santamaria Razo’s debut feature Six Months In A Pink And Blue Building, which will world premiere in Cannes’ Critics’ Week next month.
The film centres around an 11-year-old boy in Mexico City in the early 1990s, dealing with his growing feelings for his best friend, the shocking announcement that his father has HIV, and a family that tries to sing and dance their pain away. Thirty years later, he films and reimagines the memory of what he could not quite perceive as a child.
Six Months In A Pink And Blue Building won four prizes at Cinelatino Toulouse’s Films in Progress strand earlier this year.
Santamaria Razo also wrote the script and has produced the film with Bruna Hadad and Carlos H. Quiñónez for Mexico’s Ojo de Vaca Productora. The co-producers are Brazil’s Desvia Films and Denmark’s Snowglobe.
The film is the director’s first fiction feature after documentaries Things We Dare Not Do and Margarita.
It is Mexico’s first feature-length film to premiere at Critics’ Week in nearly two decades, after Ernesto Contreras’ Blue Eyelid played in competition in 2007.
“We were deeply moved by the film’s whole universe,” said Natacha Kaganski, sales executive at Luxbox. “The family gatherings and hidden wounds, the shared music and dances, the tenderness of childhood and first love, and the gentle nostalgia for the 1990s, all captured beautifully on 16mm.”
“We’re excited that Luxbox is joining Six Months In A Pink And Blue Building, a film that unfolds as a field trip into memory,” said producers Bruna Hadad and Carlos H. Quiñónez. ”Their films were consistently on our inspirational watch, and it is amazing to join the list . Luxbox has been aware of and has accompanied the project during its development stages, so it feels natural for them to officially join the team.”
Cahen described the film as “a throwback to the 1990s home movie”.
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