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U.K.-French film company Alief has boarded Cinélatino winner Victoria Linares Villegas’ upcoming horror debut “No salgas” (“Stay Quiet”) as its world sales agent and co-producer, teaming up with El Perro de Argento, the Dominican Republic-based production company founded by Linares Villegas and Carlos Marranzini.

Alief partners Brett Walker and Miguel Angel Govea are heading to Cannes with a sizzle reel to meet with potential buyers and post-production partners at the Marché du Film. Pic is slated for completion by winter 2024, in time for the festival circuit.

Currently filming in the Dominican Republic, the queer coming-of-age horror pic stars Camila Issa (Nickelodeon’s “Are You Afraid of the Dark”) Cecile van Welie (San Sebastian’s New Directors Award winner “Carajita”) and Camila Santana (Berlinale Generation’s “Ramona”) as well as newcomer Gabriela Cortés.

In “No salgas,” van Welie portrays Liz, a college student grappling with her sexual identity. While...

Carajita Review — Carajita (2021) Film Review from the 21st Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Ulises Porra and Silvina Schnicer, written by Ulises Porra, Ulla Prida, and Silvina Schnicer, and starring Cecile van Welie, Magnolia Nunez, Richard Douglas, Javier Hermida, Dimitri Rivera, and Eduardo Martinez Sturla. Carajita (‘Sweetie’) essentially concerns [...]

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We start, and will return to, a beach. At first it is the noise of waves in the blackness, before a light, blinding, white. Then more lights, red, blue, red, blue, red.

Blue in the depths of the water, submerged, weighed down, literally. Figuratively with a fright that would never leave you. Not later, not lightly, not remotely. Even at distances of faces lit by screens, Rembrandt with an Apple rather than Night Watch. Yarisa, Yari, Santa elsewhere, and her charge, now adult, Sarah.

Magnolia Nunez (Yari) and Cecile van Welie (Sara) have a handful of credits each, early in careers that this holds out much promise for. Theirs is the central relationship, the one that is tested now that Sarah's family have moved to what is their 'away', what is Santa's home. Carajita means 'sweetie', a term of endearment, but like any other feminine coded diminutive there may be an.