Colombia's Mendoza to helm 'Dust'

HUELVA, The country -- Ruben Mendoza ("The Stoplight Society"), a number one light of Colombia's new wave of youthful helmers, is placed to direct his third feature, "Tierra en la lengua" (Dust around the Tongue). A drama, "Dust" activates two siblings taking a journey to go to their tyrannical however-ill grandfather. In the grandfather's farm within the primitive great thing about Colombia's Eastern Flatlands, their grandfather asks these to kill him. But his grandsons uncover step-by-step his past and lastly choose to prolong his agony as lengthy as they possibly can. "Dust" is "a workout in personal exorcism of the wonderful and horrible monster, my maternal grandfather," Mendoza told Variety. "His energy, madness and bitterness still seep into us, myself incorporated," he added. Also compiled by Mendoza and moved to the terrain of fiction, "Dust" is to establish at Mendoza's Bogota-based Diafragma Fabrica p Peliculas. Diafragma producer Daniel Garcia will produce. "Dust" is skedded to shoot Feb, prior to the wet season around the Flatlands, Garcia stated inside a pitch in the 2011 Huelva Co-Production Forum, which began Thursday. It's drawn lower a $350,000 grant from Colombia's effective Film Development Fund (FDC). With 70% of "Dust's" budget covered, Diagragma has become searching to worldwide film funds or co-production to finish finance, Garcia stated. Which should not prove too tough a phone call for Mendoza and Garcia. A rambunctious vision of Colombian street-existence, "Stoplight," which capped this years Huelva Ibero-American Festival, accomplished the by-no-means mean ft of sourcing finance from France's Fonds Sud Cinema, Ibermedia, Colombia's FDC, Switzerland's Visions Sud Est and Berlin Festival's World Cinema Fund. Earlier this year, Mendoza finished shooting his second feature, "Cuasi Morido" (Practically Dead), a mockumentary spin-removed from "Stoplight," that they calls "a really low-budget, very-guerrilla film." "Dust" was created in the early 2011 Cannes Festival Cinefondation Residence. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com