COUNTRY
Mexico
PRODUCTION
3PAS Studios, Pantelion Films, Participant
YEAR2024
DURATION127 min
WRITING Christopher Zalla
CINEMATOGRAPHY Mateo Londoño
MUSIC
Pascual Reyes, Juan Pablo Villa
EDITION Eugenio Richer
CAST Eugenio Derbez, Daniel Haddad, Jenifer Trejo, Mía Fernanda Solís, Danilo Guardiola
DISTRIBUTION A Contracorriente Films
INTERNATIONAL SALES The Film Sales Company
CONTACT info@acontracorrientefilms.com
SYNOPSIS Based on a true story,
Radical tells the story of a teacher in a Mexican border town who tries a radically new method to unleash the curiosity, potential, and perhaps even the genius of his students.
Christopher Zalla
Kisumu, Kenya. He spent his formative years in Bolivia and Kentucky, and currently resides in Guatemala, where he has lived with his family since 2015. A director and screenwriter, he is an American filmmaker best known for his acclaimed debut feature film,
Sangre de mi sangre, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. He previously directed the television film
Beautiful & Twisted. His television directing credits include
Law and Order: Criminal Intent. He began his film career adapting the screenplay for Brad Pitt's production company Plan B Entertainment,
Marching Powder.
FILMOGRAPHY
Beautiful & Twisted (feature film, 2015),
Sangre de mi sangre (feature film, 2007)
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