Festival Predictions

2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Daniel & Diego Vega’s El Mudo

Published on April 2, 2013

#88. Daniel & Diego Vega’s El Mudo

Gist: Among the hodge-podge of Peruvian government officials, there is a man named Constantino Zegarra. He doesn’t fit anywhere and looks down on his colleagues because he has never succumbed to an act of corruption and, every time he has had the opportunity to do so, he has made an effort to impede it. Over his two decades as a government official he has cultivated purity – the fuel for his soul.

Prediction: Un Certain Regard. In 2010 the Daniel and Diego Vega were included in the exact same section with Octubre and walked away with the Jury Prize. El Mudo was an 2011 Atelier supported project and was recently selected to participate in Films in Progress 23 in Toulouse as part of the Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine. This potentially means that the Peru, France, Mexico co-production is either deep into the beginning or towards the end of editing phase.

Related Topics:Daniel Vega, Diego Vega, El Mudo

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).