Acclaimed Animator Anca Damian Lines Up Live-Action Feature ‘First People on Earth’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comBen Croll Acclaimed Romanian animator Anca Damian has lined up her next live-action feature. The filmmaker behind Annecy top prizewinner “Crulic: The Path to Beyond” and “Marona’s Fantastic Tale” will write and direct “First People on Earth,” a tragicomic family saga about a biracial woman re-experiencing her native Namibia after decades in Europe.
Returning to her birth country for a family funeral, and bringing her non-verbal, pre-adolescent son in tow, the heroine falls in with a troupe of theatrical Bushmen – an Indigenous tribe, divorced from their historic lands, forced to re-enact ancestral myths for tourist dollars.
Michaël Goldberg, from Belgium’s Daylight Films, will produce, with the filmmakers now scouting for an additional European production partner.
Though written and conceived to shoot fast with a principally non-professional cast, Damian has nevertheless eyed an internationally-renowned performer for the lead.
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