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Jayro Bustamante is a Guatemalan film director and screenwriter who made the 2015 film Ixcanul, the first Guatemalan entry for the Oscars. He also directed Tremors (Temblores) and La Llorona, and was on the jury for the Berlinale.
Jayro Bustamante is a writer, producer and director of award-winning films such as Ixcanul, Tremors and La Llorona. He studied film in Paris and Rome, and founded La Casa de Produccion in Guatemala.
- January 1, 1
- 2 min
- Guatemala City, Guatemala
La Llorona: Directed by Jayro Bustamante. With María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz, Margarita Kenéfic, Julio Diaz. An aging paranoid war criminal, protected by his faithful wife, faces death while being haunted by the ghosts of his past.
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- Crime, Drama, Horror
- Jayro Bustamante
- 2020-08-06
26K Followers, 3,168 Following, 2,384 Posts - Jayro Bustamante (@jayrobustamante) on Instagram: "Film Maker-Director-Productor-Guionista-Distribuidor @lacasadeproduccion @lasaladecinegt @fundacion.ixcanul Artículos SOMBRERÓN 👇".
Aug 5, 2020 · For his third feature (following “Ixcanul” and “Temblores”), acclaimed auteur Jayro Bustamante uses the feared apparition to grapple with the genocide committed against indigenous people in his country, which reached its most horrifying stage under the mandate of military dictator Efraín Ríos Montt in the early 1980s. Bustamante ...
Oct 3, 2020 · Through a body of work permeated with magical realism, film maker Jayro Bustamante examines the ills plaguing Guatemala. His trilogy composed of Ixcanul (2015), Temblores (2017) and Llorona (2019) delves into the realms of political film and genre cinema with sophistication.
Jayro Bustamante. Writer: La Llorona. Born in Guatemala. He studied Film Directing in Paris at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Francais, and continued his studies in screenwriting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. In 2009 he returned to Guatemala and founded La Casa de Produccion.
