Franco Garcia’s ‘The Force of the Land’ Snags Peruvian Production Funding
Anna Marie de la Fuente Santiago Fiction Lab participant “The Force of the Land” (“Raiz, La Fuerza de la Tierra”), the sophomore feature of Peruvian filmmaker Franco Garcia, has won the support of Peru’s production fund, which awards a mere 10 to 15 projects a year.The drama is co-produced by Desfase Films and HDPeru, which have re-teamed after jointly producing a number of docs, including 2017 docudrama “Green River, The Time of the Yakurunas,” that screened at the 67th Berlinale, followed by New York’s MoMA Doc Fortnight and a slew of festivals across the world.A poetic exploration of the concept of time in three remote Amazon villages, “Green River..” marked the directorial feature debut of brothers Alvaro and Diego Sarmiento, founders