In My Mother's Skin

Source: Courtesy of Sundance Institute

‘In My Mother’s Skin’

Prime Video has picked up worldwide rights to Filipino Sundance Midnight premiere In My Mother’s Skin ahead of Friday night’s world premiere.

Kenneth Dagatan wrote and directed the horror fairytale about a young girl whose duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a bewitching, flesh-eating fairy.

Beauty Gonzalez, Felicity Kyle Napuli, Jasmine Curtis-Smith, James Mavie Estrella, and Angeli Bayani star in the Tagalog-language film – the only entry in this year’s Midnight selection not in the English language.

Prime Video will debut In My Mother’s Skin in multiple countries by the end of 2023.

Set in the Philippines towards the end of the Second World War, the film follows 14-year-old Tala, whose textile merchant father departs to negotiate with the Japanese for his family’s freedom, leaving Tala alone with her ailing mother and younger brother in their colonial mansion.

As the mother’s condition deteriorates rapidly, Tala receives a magical insect cure from a fairy. At first the gift offers relief, however it soon brings disastrous consequences.

Bradley Liew, Bianca Balbuena, Huang Junxiang, and Stefano Centini served as producers on the Epic Media Productions film.

“This is truly a moment for Filipino filmmakers to be seen by the international audience and I hope this opens doors for more Filipino content to be watched by the rest of the world,” said Dagatan, whose feature debut Ma in 2018 was the first original film on the Filipino streaming platform iWant.

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