Prime Video Picks Up Sundance Flesh-Eating Fairy Midnight Title ‘In My Mother’s Skin’
deadline.comIn what reps the first acquisition of this year’s Sundance Film Festival by a streamer, Prime Video is taking global rights to Kenneth Dagatan’s Filipino horror movie In My Mother’s Skin which is premiering in the Midnight section on Friday, Jan.
20. A Q4 drop date in several countries is currently scheduled. In My Mother’s Skin is the only non-English title playing in this year’s Midnight lineup.
Set in 1945 Philippines, at the tail end of World War II, the pic follows the story of Tala, a 14-year-old daughter of a Philippines textile merchant who lives in a war-worn colonial house with her sickly mother Ligaya and younger brother Bayani.
When Tala’s father mysteriously leaves once more to barter for his family’s freedom with the Japanese, his family finds themselves alone in their isolated forest mansion, awaiting his return.
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