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Tragic Jungle

Directed by : Yulene OLAIZOLA

  • Year of production : 2018
  • Country : Belize , Mexico
  • Length : 90 minutes

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Synopsis

In the outskirts of the Corozal town in Belize, two beautiful Belizean women Agnes (20) and Florence (27) Smith, flee silently into the jungle. They are forced to cross over the Río Hondo and into Mexico. But they are discovered by their pursuer, an Englishman, and only Agnes survives and runs away into the Mexican jungle. Some days later, some Mexican chicleros (gum workers) find Agnes lying unconscious and they take her to their camp. Her presence produces tension among the men, who have been working in the jungle for eight months. One by one they fall under Agnes’s spell, and mysterious fatalities ensue: one chiclero plummets from a zapote tree, one falls sick with malaria, and another is eaten by ants. Only one Mayan worker is suspicious about Agnes, he remembers an old Mayan legend, about a beautiful and evil woman who appears on jungle paths, seducing and causing the death of every man she finds.

Statement

The film is set in the early 1920s on the Mexico-Belize border during the years of gum extraction in the region. Thousands of gum workers penetrated deep into the jungle for as long as eight months. The conditions were terrible, and they faced great dangers: tropical illnesses, poisonous snakes and insects, falls from tall trees, and fights to the death between the men. Tragic Jungle will take viewers deep into the Quintana Roo jungle and involve them intimately in the human conflicts that lie there. I want to portray the jungle as a living being harassed by those men trying to steal its treasures ; she takes revenge in different ways, with poisonous plants, swarms of mosquitos, snake bites, swiping jaguar paws, and with the presence of other mysterious creatures.


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Credits

Yulene OLAIZOLA - Director


Specifications

Language film : Spanish, English, Maya
Working budget: 657 000 €
Financing acquired: 510 000 €

Contacts

Production

MALACOSA CINE / VARIOS LOBOS
Victor Hugo 39 Anzures CDMX 11590 Mexico - Heriberto Frias 408 int 306700 Mexico SANSKRIT - +52 (55) 65534096 / +52 (55) 34741599 - www.varioslobos.com

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