Chilean filmmaker Francisca Alegría (of The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future fame – a 2022 Sundance Film Festival winner) flirted with an Indiewood project called “Alba,” set to star Margot Robbie, but finally she’ll be returning to a touch of magical realism with another socially-relevant theme project as her sophomore project. Variety reports that Alegría has joined forces with Quijote Films’ Giancarlo Nasi for Nacimiento (“Nativity”). We imagine she might shoot once again in her native country.
Based on Alegría’s original script, Nativity is a tale of transformation and redemption of a violent man, told through the prism of magical realism. After disappearing during a dive at sea, Cristián, a Chilean fisherman trapped in his own violence and guilt, returns months later to his village, physically and spiritually changed, runs the synopsis. Suspected of not being himself and haunted by visions and secrets from the past, he begins a surreal journey towards redemption with Marisol, a woman marked by her own trauma. In this world where the boundaries between the human and the mythical are blurred, both must face their deepest scars to be reborn or lost forever.
We had the chance to speak with Alegría’s debut feature, The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future – which was a Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs project.
