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The hybrid documentary, headed to the Costa Rica Media Market, is produced by Costa Rica\u2019s Sputnik Films. Mariana Murillo\u2019s label has previously produced Sof\u00eda Quir\u00f3s Ubeda\u2019s Cannes-selected \u201cLand of Ashes,\u201d and it\u2019s currently in post-production with the filmmaker\u2019s follow-up, \u201cMadre P\u00e1jaro.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=4067\">China Box Office: \u2018Kung Fu Soccer\u2019 Scores Massive $73.6 Million Opening<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cSpells to Revive a Witch\u201d marks the first collaboration between Natalia Sol\u00f3rzano V\u00e1squez and the burgeoning Sputnik Films banner. Her debut feature, \u201cAvanzar\u00e9 tan despacio,\u201d premiered at IDFA in 2019 and her short films have found success at the Costa Rica International Film Festival. Her latest project is a \u201ccasting call to embody\u201d Costa Rican fortune teller Soralla de Persia, who rose to fame in the 1960s. The hybrid documentary will become a \u201cstage\u201d where \u201cdifferent women invoke her spirit through memories, interpretations, and personal experiences.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpeaking with <em>Variety<\/em>, Sol\u00f3rzano V\u00e1squez says she discovered Soralla \u201calmost by accident\u201d while researching women who had \u201cappeared in Costa Rican media.\u201d \u201cI had never heard of her before, which immediately struck me. She had once been one of the most recognizable women in the country, yet she had almost completely disappeared from our collective memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThat absence became the starting point of the film,\u201d she adds. \u201cThe more I searched for Soralla, the more I realized I was also searching for all the women whose lives slowly vanish because no one thought they were worth preserving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe director says the fortune teller made her think about the women in her own family, who belonged \u201cto the same generation but lived very different lives.\u201d \u201cShe represents the possibility of reinventing yourself, but also the price women often pay for stepping outside the roles society has assigned to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMurillo, who has known Sol\u00f3rzano V\u00e1squez since university, says she has \u201calways been fascinated by her ability to observe and make us observe everyday life with a unique combination of tenderness, humor, and critical insight.\u201d \u201cSoralla\u2019s story gave us the perfect excuse to work together and explore a female character through a deeply performative lens, guided by a feminist perspective and a conviction we have shared from the very beginning: who we are today is nothing more than a reflection of who we once were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=4065\">Denis\u00a0C\u00f4t\u00e9\u2019s \u2018Nobody\u2019s Violence\u2019 Acquired by Heretic Ahead of Locarno Main Competition Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAsked about how she feels about making a film about memory in Latin America at a time when films broaching issues of both personal and collective memory in the region have found great international success, the director says memory \u201cfascinates\u201d her because \u201cit is always incomplete.\u201d \u201cWe tend to think of it as something that preserves the past, but it also transforms it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThis film doesn\u2019t try to reconstruct Soralla exactly as she was,\u201d she notes. \u201cIt asks what happens when almost everything has disappeared, and only fragments remain. Those fragments live inside other people, and every time they are remembered, they become something slightly different. I\u2019m interested in that fragile space where memory, imagination and lived experience coexist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs for being a part of a strong generation of female filmmakers in Costa Rica \u2014 which has seen the rise of names such as Valentina Maurel and Sofia Quir\u00f3s Ubeda \u2014 Sol\u00f3rzano V\u00e1squez says she feels \u201cvery lucky\u201d to belong to this noteworthy group. \u201cCosta Rican cinema is still small, which means we know each other well and have grown alongside one another,\u201d she adds. \u201cThere is an incredible diversity of voices, and many women are telling stories that simply hadn\u2019t been told before. I think we\u2019re less interested in representing an idea of Costa Rica than in questioning it, expanding it, and finding new cinematic languages to talk about who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe \u201cSpells to Revive a Witch\u201d project has been developed through the Rueda Program of the Spanish Film Academy, CIMA Impulsa and Ventana Sur\u2019s Proyecta.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=4063\">\u2018Love Island USA\u2019 Season 8 Crowns Its Winners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Costa Rica Media Market runs July 14-15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain and Uruguay join Natalia Sol\u00f3rzano V\u00e1squez\u2019s hybrid doc \u2018Spells to Revive a Witch\u2019 about Costa Rican fortune teller Soralla de Persia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3308,3307,3309],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-costa-rica-media-market","tag-costa-rica","tag-natalia-solorzano-vasquez"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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