Locarno Prizewinner ‘Holy Electricity’ Drops Trailer, Director Tato Kotetishvili Teases Next Project, a Docufiction Set on U.S.-Mexico Border (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comChristopher Vourlias Georgian filmmaker Tato Kotetishvili, whose feature directorial debut, “Holy Electricity,” won the Golden Leopard in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente section at the recently wrapped Locarno Film Festival, is prepping his next film, a docufiction that follows a family trying to illegally enter the U.S.
from across the Mexican border. The director also released a trailer for his prize-winning debut, which plays this week in competition at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Variety has been given exclusive access below. The untitled project from the cinematographer-turned-director traces the odyssey of a Georgian family trying to make it to America via an arduous, three-week journey across Latin America.
The family’s first trip overseas, it will be seen through the eyes of a child “who is not really concerned with the problems of the past or the anxieties of the future,” said Kotetishvili.
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