Entertainment 360 Signs Christopher Zalla, Filmmaker Behind 2023 Sundance Festival Favorite ‘Radical’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: On the heels of his newest feature Radical‘s Festival Favorite Award win at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, filmmaker Christopher Zalla has inked with Entertainment 360 for management.
Zalla wrote and directed the critically acclaimed drama, based on a 2013 article written for Wired magazine by Josh Davis, which was among the most discussed titles at Sundance 2023.
The film is based on the true story of Sergio Juarez Correa (CODA‘s Eugenio Derbez), a teacher in the neglected town of Matamoros, Mexico, who as Zalla notes in his director’s statement, suffered “a mental breakdown” after “increasingly failing to reach his students in each successive year.” When Correa stumbled upon “a new kind of child-directed learning” in a TED Talk, he decided to try to implement it, in order to turn the situation in his classroom around, to profound results.
Zalla connected to this story personally, as someone who’d looked to start anew in his craft when he moved his family from NYC to Guatemala, following “two grueling years in and out of hospitals” when his child was born premature. “Sergio was winging it.
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