‘After Lucia’s’ Tessa Ia to Star in ‘Hyperballad,’ A Potential Standout at Ventana Sur’s Proyecta Showcase (EXCLUSIVE)
17.11.2023 - 14:19
/ variety.com
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Tessa Ía, who broke out heading “After Lucía,” Michel Franco’s Cannes winning first feature, is set to star in “Hyperballad,” which offers what is proving one of the most potent mixtures in cutting-edge Latin American film: Genre, ambition, and a first-feature young woman director. Directed by Alejandra Villalba García, “Hyperballad” (“Hiperbalada”) is lead produced by Hiperbalada, a production house lead by Villalba Garcñia and pic producer Carlos Paz.
It is co-produced by Mexico’s Piano, behind some of the boldest Mexican movies of recent years, such as the Alfonso Cuarón endorsed “We are the Flesh.” Its cosmopolitan co-production credits run from “Triangle of Sadness” to “Annette” and “Memoria.” Piano’s Julio Chavezmontes will also produce “Hyperballad.” Sharpening the project’s contempo edge, “Hyperballad” plus the digital world’s angst, psychosis and “phantasmagoria,” in producer Paz’s word. Ía will play Tessa, a popular influencer, who returns to her childhood home in Tijuana where she is contacted by @murmur0, a strange YouTuber whose internet profile claims they passed away 8 years ago.
Yet @murmur0 still appears online and communicates with Tessa through disturbing videos. The increasingly strange similarities between @murmur0’s tragic fate and Tessa’s own childhood memories plunge Tessa into a deep paranoia from which she may not be able to escape.
“Hyperballad” is a “hybrid horror film that doubles down on a voyeuristic camera and a disturbing atmosphere to articulate a prevailing generational anxiety: To exist for and be consumed by the gaze of the other,” Paz told Variety. Building on Villaba García’s short “Microcastillo,” seen at Cannes’ 2o17 Critics’ Week
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