Jury prize winner at Champs Elysees Film Festival’s U.S. in Progress this past summer, Margarita Jimeno’s sophomore feature currently titled My Life is a Soundtrack simply sounds dope. Described as a hybrid fiction, this is not Jimeeno’s first foray into music based docs – her debut Gogol Bordello Non-Stop won an award at the forward thinking fest with appreciate: CPH: DOX.
Gist: When international artist Peter Bjorn’s much anticipated show is panned by critics, he disappears. Finding refuge playing pipe organ music in a remote Polish village, he becomes fascinated by the sweet voice of a hiking nun. However, when Peter reads online that he is
presumed dead, he decides to go back and confront his past life.
Production Co./Producers: Margarita Jimeno, Executive Producer: Uncorked Productions’ Andrew D. Corkin (The Alchemist Cookbook).
Prediction: This could actually be fitted in the Park City at Midnight or NEXT section.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international)
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