Updates on Cortes’ Red Lights and Miguel Angel Vivas’ Welcome To Harmony

“Buried” helmer Rodrigo Cortés has already dove into his latest project which should intrigue international audiences once again. Principal photography began in Barcelona on “Red Lights”, Cortés third feature film, with a cast that includes Sigourney Weaver, Robert DeNiro, Cillian Murphy, recently favorite Sundance sensation Elizabeth Olsen (“Martha Marcy May Marlene” and “Silent House”) with such names as Toby Jones, Joely Richardson and Leonardo Sbaraglia giving life to supporting characters. The film is a thriller with a supernatural background in which the brain’s mechanisms of perception are explored. DeNiro plays a psychic that after a thirty year retirement reappears to become the subject of a worldwide science challenge, Weaver and Murphy are two investigators trying to uncover what they think is a fraud. After a month of shooting in Barcelona the cast and crew will move to Toronto where the film will complete photography. Cortes mentioned that “Red Lights” is a much more ambitious project than “Buried”.

Helmer Miguel Ángel Vivas who gave us the festival favorite “Kidnapped” is currently in pre-production status of his next film “Welcome To Harmony,” a sci-fi horror film based on Spanish best seller “Y Pese A Todo…” by Juan De Dios Garduño. This tells the story of a World War III where chemical weapons that wipe out everyone in each country, except a father and daughter and their hated neighbour living in Bangor, Maine who have to confront unwanted visitors. The film is produced by Vaca Films the studio behind the hit “Cell 211”.