EXCLUSIVE: Fabula, Setembro Cine and Sudestada Cine’s upcoming drama has been selected for this summer’s Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound.

Marialy Rivas directs the Chile-Spain-Argentina production and is familiar with Sundance, where her 2012 comedy-drama Young And Wild premeried and won the World Cinema Dramatic screenwriting award.

Juan de Dios Larraín and Pablo Larraín of Chilean powerhouse Fabula produce The Princess, about an 11-year-old cult member’s violent passage into womanhood after she is deemed responsible for procreating the leaders of a new world order.

Sara Caballero, Marcelo Alonso, Maria Gracia Omegna and Stefano Mardones star.

Rivas co-wrote The Princess with Camila Gutierrez and said the film is inspired by events that took place in southern Chile. 

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