Park City, United States - January 25, 2025 Argentine director Laura Casabe makes her debut at the Sundance Festival with the horror film La Virgen de la Tosquera, the first film adaptation of Mariana Enríquez's work. Camera: Monica Rubalcava. Statements from Argentine director Laura Casabe. Translation: 1. "There's something about it, like perhaps because of the place we've occupied socially throughout history, these kinds of knowledge have ended up in more marginal spaces. I think it's not so much a knowledge of poison, but more like a way of feeling and a less prejudiced approach to the extraordinary". 2. "In that sense, I understand and relate to witchcraft, if you will. So, yes, there’s something in all of that. The way I thought about these witches, these adolescent witches, was kind of like... nothing. Reflecting on witchcraft comes from a bit more of a pop perspective, also because there’s something about witchcraft in the way it happens, like in female friendships, especially in adolescence, the way we connect". 3. "It’s this synergy that happens a little bit, something I recall, which occurs a bit between girls, but also all the darkness that’s there, and I thought it was interesting to bring it to light. No, not to romanticize female friendship – that also seems important to me because I think that’s something I don’t know how much it helped us. I think, as women, it hurt us not to be able to talk about our nature in all its complexity". [Restrictions: Spain, Latin America, or the U.S. Hispanic market]