In what reps the first acquisition of this year’s Sundance Film Festival by a streamer, Prime Video is taking global rights to Kenneth Dagatan’s Filipino horror movie In My Mother’…
which is premiering in the Midnight section on Friday, Jan. 20. A Q4 drop date in several countries is currently scheduled.Set in 1945 Philippines, at the tail end of World War II, the pic follows the story of Tala, a 14-year-old daughter of a Philippines textile merchant who lives in a war-worn colonial house with her sickly mother Ligaya and younger brother Bayani.
Pic stars Beauty Gonzalez, Felicity Kyle Napuli, Jasmine Curtis-Smith, James Mavie Estrella, and Angeli Bayani. Dagatan also wrote. Bradley Liew, Bianca Balbuena, Huang Junxiang, and Stefano Centini produce. “We’re proud to be the home of some of the best Filipino storytellers like Kenneth, and excited to see how this film will receive international recognition in Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight Section. is a uniquely Filipino story and a highly elevated horror film, we are delighted to bring this movie to not just audiences in the Philippines but Prime Video members worldwide.
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