Fernando Velazquez (The Impossible, The Orphanage, A Monster Calls, Crimson Peak, Hercules, Devil) is attached to score the upcoming drama The Movie Teller. The film will be directed by Lone Scherfig (An Education, One Day) and is set to star Bérénice Bejo and Antonio de la Torre. The movie is based on Hernán Rivera Letelier’s novel of the same title and tells the story a young girl growing up in a mining town in the heart of Chile’s Atacama desert during the 1960s, where a movie house represents the sole distraction for hundreds of working class families. Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, Central Station) & Rafa Russo (Twice Upon a Yesterday, Get Her…If You Can) wrote the screenplay. A Contracorriente Films’ Adolfo Blanco (The Bookshop, Painless) and Selenium Films’ Vincent Juillerat are producing the project. The Movie Teller is set to shoot in early 2022 in the Atacama Desert. (Variety)
Velazquez’s other upcoming projects include the Spanish Netflix original series The Girl in the Mirror (Alma) created by Sergio G. Sánchez (expected to premiere in late 2021 or early 2022) and the Mexican feature Poderoso Victoria written and directed Raúl Ramón (to premiere next year).
