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BIPOC Stories, Crime and Justice, Human Rights, Social Justice, Women-Centered Stories

Death Has No Master

A Fiscally Sponsored Project

Director:

Jorge Thielen Armand

Executive Producer:

Mo Scarpelli

2024
91 minutes

Carolina returns to Venezuela after 20 years to sell her father’s cacao plantation. Soon she discovers the plantation is occupied by its former workers, who are determined to stay at all costs. A game of manipulation ensues. No one will escape the death that rules this land.

Awards

  • 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship, CineWorld – Film Fund Luxembourg
  • 2024 TeleFilm Canada Coproduction Fund, Canada Council for the Arts Grant

Official Selections

  • 2024 Cannes Marche du Film Investors Circle
  • 2024 Venice Biennale Gap Financing Market