EXCLUSIVE: Magnify has boarded international sales to Stillz’s Colombia-set coming-of-age story Barrio Triste ahead of its world premiere at Venice Film Festival (August 27-September 9) in Horizons.

The feature directorial debut by Stillz, the Colombian-American music video director and photographer who has worked with Bad Bunny and Rosalía, takes place in Medellin in 1987 as teen outcasts steal a news camera to document their dangerous lives.

Barrio Triste is produced by Harmony Korine’s collective EDGLRD and according to the film’s representatives “taps into the anxieties of a youth culture from the margins of history yearning to be understood”.

The cast features Juan Pablo Baena, Samuel Velazquez, Tomas Tinoco Higuita, Bryan Erlin Garcia, Samuel Andres Celis, Brahian Acecedo, Sa

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