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Issa López to Make English-Language Debut with “Three Sundays”

López: Sector Cine/YouTube

Award-winning Mexican writer-director Issa López is set to make her English-language debut with Paramount Players’ love story “Three Sundays.” The Hollywood Reporter broke the news.

Penned by López and set in the banda music dance scene in New York, the drama’s tone is “akin to ‘Saturday Night Fever,’ the John Travolta dance classic that looked at the disco scene in New York in the late 1970s and focused on characters with Italian and Latino heritage,” according to the source. López is among the project’s producers.

“Tigers Are Not Afraid,” López’s dark fable about ghosts haunting children, won her the best horror director award at 2017’s Fantastic Fest. Her other credits include “Todo mal” and “Casi divas.”

“Go for the stories that matter to you,” López said when asked what advice she’d give other female filmmakers. “That’s what made a [difference] with me. If you are speaking from a place of absolute honesty, you are going to be heard, eventually.” She explained, “It takes such a stubbornness, [and] you have to keep on pushing and trying and knocking on the door and then kicking it until someone gives up and goes ‘okay send it to me.’ If it’s not completely honest, and you aren’t completely crazy about that story, if it’s done to achieve something else, it’s probably not going to take you where you actually want to go. The truth is, where do you want to go with it? Where do you really want to go with this? It has to come from the soul.”

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