Inner Voice Artists has signed Yago and Carlo Munoz Osio, the Mexican directing duo behind indie film Paper Boats.
The film premiered at HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival in 2019, where it won the Best Feature Award, and also screened at the Indie and Foreign Film Festival in New York among others.
Spain’s Moonrise Pictures is handling international sales for the film.
The Munoz Brothers run the production banner Desierto Films, which also makes music videos, advertising campaigns and have a slate of Mexican and English projects in development.
Inner Voice Artists, with offices in Los Angeles and Oslo, has also recently signed Colombian-Canadian filmmaker called Andy Alvarez, whose directorial debut short La Mariposa screened at multiple festivals and won awards.
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