‘Songs That Flood the River’ Duo Prep New Films Focused on Race, Gender, Resistance in Colombia (EXCLUSIVE)
Christopher Vourlias Colombia’s Germán Arango and Ana María Muñoz, the director-producer duo behind Hot Docs International Spectrum competition title “Songs That Flood the River,” are prepping a host of new documentary and fiction features focused on race, gender, violence and resistance in the South American nation, Variety has learned.Arango is developing “MC Silencio,” a Medellín-set musical drama in which the young resist and fight paramilitary aggression through hip-hop, and “The Man With the Trumpet,” a documentary that turns to film noir to delve into the murder of the director’s uncle and question the links between masculinity and violence in Medellín.Both projects are produced by Yira Plaza, a fellow member of the Colectivo