Strand Releasing has acquired North American rights to Bruno Santamaria Razo’s debut feature “Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building,” the Mexican coming-of-age drama that premiered at Critics’ Week at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Set in Mexico City in the early 1990s, “Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building” follows an 11-year-old boy grappling with his growing feelings for his best friend while his family is shaken by the news that his father has HIV. As his relatives attempt to sing and dance their way through the pain, the film later shifts three decades forward as the protagonist revisits and reimagines memories he was unable to fully understand as a child.
Razo also wrote the screenplay and produced the film alongside Bruna Haddad and Carlos H. Quiñónez for Mexico’s Ojo de Vaca Productora. The film was co-produced by Brazil’s Desvia Films and Denmark’s Snowglobe.
The acquisition follows the film’s strong festival momentum. Earlier this year, “Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building” won four awards in the Films in Progress section at Cinélatino Toulouse.
“Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building” also marked a milestone for Mexican cinema, becoming the country’s first feature selected for Cannes Critics’ Week in nearly two decades, since Ernesto Contreras’ “Blue Eyelid” screened in competition in 2007.
