Cinema Guild Acquires Rodrigo Reyes Documentary ‘Sansón And Me’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has picked up U.S. rights to the documentary Sansón and Me, directed by Rodrigo Reyes (499), which won Best Film at Sheffield DocFest in June after world premiering in Tribeca.
The film has been slated for release in theaters next year, beginning with a run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on March 3.
Reyes’ latest feature emerged from his day job as a Spanish criminal interpreter in a small town in California, through which he met a young man named Sansón, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
With no permission to interview him, Sansón and Reyes worked together over the course of a decade, using hundreds of letters as inspiration for recreations of Sansón’s childhood — featuring members of his own family.
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