Colombia's Mendoza to helm 'Dust'

HUELVA, The nation -- Ruben Mendoza ("The Stoplight Society"), a respected light of Colombia's new wave of youthful helmers, is positioned to direct his third feature, "Tierra en la lengua" (Dust round the Tongue). A drama, "Dust" triggers two brothers and sisters going for a journey to visit their tyrannical however-ill grandfather. Within the grandfather's farm inside the primitive great factor about Colombia's Eastern Flatlands, their grandfather asks those to kill him. But his grandsons uncover step-by-step his past and finally decide to prolong his agony as extended as they can. "Dust" is "a good work out in personal exorcism from the wonderful and horrible monster, my maternal grandfather," Mendoza told Variety. "His energy, madness and bitterness still seep into us, myself incorporated," he added. Also put together by Mendoza and gone to live in the terrain of fiction, "Dust" is defined at Mendoza's Bogota-based Diafragma Fabrica p Peliculas. Diafragma producer Daniel Garcia will produce. "Dust" is skedded to shoot February, just before the wet season round the Flatlands, Garcia mentioned in the help out this year's Huelva Co-Production Forum, which started Thursday. It's attracted lower a $350,000 grant from Colombia's effective Film Development Fund (FDC). With 70% of "Dust's" budget covered, Diagragma is becoming searching to worldwide film funds or co-production to complete finance, Garcia mentioned. That ought to not prove too tough a telephone call for Mendoza and Garcia. A rambunctious vision of Colombian street-existence, "Stoplight," which assigned this year's Huelva Ibero-American Festival, accomplished the by-no-means mean foot of sourcing finance from France's Fonds Sud Cinema, Ibermedia, Colombia's FDC, Switzerland's Visions Sud Est and Berlin Festival's World Cinema Fund. Captured, Mendoza finished shooting his second feature, "Cuasi Morido" (Practically Dead), a mockumentary spin-taken off "Stoplight," they calls "a very low-budget, very-guerrilla film." "Dust" was produced in early 2011 Cannes Festival Cinefondation Residence. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com