Killing Jesus, directed by Laura Mora, WINNER of the Cine Latino Award for Best Ibero-American Film in the 29th annual Palm Spring Film Festival. The film will be shown today on the Best of the Fest screenings, which shows 180 films from 77 countries.
The Colombia-Argentina co-production follows Paula, who witnesses her social activist father’s assassination, the inept, uncaring police force drives her to seek justice on her own. But when she finds herself immersed in the killer’s poverty-stricken world she discovers that they might both be victims of the same broken system. – Click here to film info –
Congratulations to all the cast and crew!
Jury:
Vanessa Erazo (journalist, Remezcla)
Gabriel Lerman (president, Hispanic Bridge)
Lucy Mukerjee-Brown (director of programming, OUTFEST).