U.K. genre specialist distributor has sold “The Witch Game,” an Argentine “Harry Potter” inspired horror feature from director Fabian Forte, to Miracle Media in North America and the U.K. The supernatural thriller will be released in the territories in the first quarter of 2025.
Originally shot in Spanish, the film also has an English-language dubbed version, which was created using artificial intelligence technology.
In the film, Lourdes Mansilla stars as a rebellious teenage girl whose family is besieged by the devil himself. On her 18th birthday, the girl receives a state-of-the-art VR video game headset that allows her to travel into an occult world and a medieval school of magic where she can learn the ways of witchcraft to save her family from the lord of the underworld.
Written and directed by Forte, an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker whose credits include “Mala carne,” “Retratos del Apocalipsis” and the Argentine Film Critics Association Award-nominee “La corporación,” “The Witch Game” is produced by Hernan Findling and Gabriel Lahaye for Wip Producciones and Lahaye Media.
Led by Mansilla, the film’s cast also includes Ezequiel Rodriguez, Virginia Lombardo, Natalia Grinberg, Alexia Moyano, Martin Borisenko, Sebastian Sinnott and Denise Barbara.
“The Witch Game” received its market premiere at last year’s Ventana Sur after pitching as a work in progress in the prestigious Blood Window genre film sidebar the year before.
Other markets in which the film has already sold include Latin America (Encripta), Germany and Austria (Lighthouse Entertainment), Spain (Wild Duck), Portugal (Cinema Novo), Serbia (Fox Vision) and Cambodia (Westec).
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