Tessa Ia Nailea Norvind Set for ‘Hyperballad,’ from Alejandra Villalba García

Tessa Ía, who broke out heading “After Lucía,” Michel Franco’s Cannes successful first characteristic, is ready to star in “Hyperballad,” which provides what’s proving probably the most potent mixtures in cutting-edge Latin American movie: Style, ambition, and a first-feature younger lady director.

Directed by Alejandra Villalba García, “Hyperballad” (“Hiperbalada”) is lead produced by Hiperbalada, a manufacturing home lead by Villalba Garcñia and pic producer Carlos Paz. 

It’s co-produced by Mexico’s Piano, behind a few of the boldest Mexican films of latest years, such because the Alfonso Cuarón endorsed “We’re the Flesh.” Its cosmopolitan co-production credit run from “Triangle of Unhappiness” to “Annette” and “Memoria.” Piano’s Julio Chavezmontes may even produce “Hyperballad.”

Sharpening the challenge’s contempo edge, “Hyperballad” plus the digital world’s angst, psychosis and “phantasmagoria,” in producer Paz’s phrase. 

Ía will play Tessa, a preferred influencer, who returns to her childhood residence in Tijuana the place she is contacted by @murmur0, an odd YouTuber whose web profile claims they handed away 8 years in the past.

But @murmur0 nonetheless seems on-line and communicates with Tessa via disturbing movies. The more and more unusual similarities between @murmur0’s tragic destiny and Tessa’s personal childhood reminiscences plunge Tessa right into a deep paranoia from which she might not have the ability to escape.

“Hyperballad” is a “hybrid horror movie that doubles down on a voyeuristic digital camera and a disturbing environment to articulate a prevailing generational anxiousness: To exist for and be consumed by the gaze of the opposite,” Paz advised Selection.

Constructing on Villaba García’s quick “Microcastillo,” seen at Cannes’ 2o17 Critics’ Week Morelia showcase, the movie will up “the ante with a disorienting narrative and a eager perception into the digital phantasmagoria of web tradition,” he added.

The movie co-stars Nailea Norvind, Ía’s actual life mom with whom she has labored earlier than, as her on-screen mom. “Casting the real-life mom and daughter actresses was an early choice in Alejandra’s writing course of, aiming to challenge a real feeling of each tenderness and pressure on display,” stated Paz.

In growth, with tentative shoot dates of late 2024-early 2025, “Hyperballad” is penned by Villalba García and writing accomplice Francisco Sánchez de la Vega.