Guatemala’s Jayro Bustamante Takes Up Indigenous Rights Once More with ‘Mountains of Fire’

Guatemala’s Jayro Bustamante Takes Up Indigenous Rights Once More with ‘Mountains of Fire’

At the Panama Int’l Film Festival (IFF Panama) to present his latest film “Rita” and give a masterclass, Guatemala’s acclaimed filmmaker Jayro Bustamante sat down with Variety to discuss his upcoming projects, “Mountains of Fire” (“Cordillera de Fuego”) which has just completed post-production, and his first comedy, the adaptation of 1998 Spanish romcom “Nada en la nevera” (roughly translated to “Nothing in the Fridge”). Bustamante, whose film…