Colombian Psychological Thriller 'Los Eastman' Lines Up International Co-Production Partners Ahead of Bogotá Shoot

A Colombian genre project with serious international momentum is making its move. Los Eastman, a psychological thriller from writer-director Mauricio Leiva-Cock, has locked in a three-country co-production structure that positions it as one of the more ambitious Latin American genre productions currently in development. Principal photography is scheduled for January 2027 in Bogotá, giving crew and collaborators across Colombia, France, and Mexico a clear horizon to plan around. With nearly a year of pre-production runway ahead, now is exactly the right moment for working professionals to get familiar with this project and the team behind it.

Leiva-Cock, who also co-wrote the script alongside Diego González Cruz, is the creative center of gravity here. A Colombian filmmaker with a background in genre-forward storytelling, Leiva-Cock brings both the directorial and writing vision to the project, which speaks to the kind of auteur-driven production this appears to be. The film's logline signals something sharp and socially pointed: a housekeeper trapped in servitude by wealthy employers during a devastating pandemic virus outbreak in Bogotá, whose desperate struggle to escape curdles into violent transformation. Think class-horror in the tradition of films like Parasite or The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, but rooted specifically in Colombian social dynamics and executed through the genre lens of psychological thriller. The script was co-developed with Diego González Cruz, and the project has already demonstrated its strength on the page by winning 13 awards at the 2025 BAM Production Meetings, one of Latin America's most competitive industry forums for projects in development. Additional recognition at Sitges FanPitch and the Sanfic Mórbido Lab, two of the genre world's most respected development platforms, confirms that this project has been vetted by serious international tastemakers.

The producing team is anchored by Cuatro Ojos, the new Colombian production company formed by Leiva-Cock alongside producers Sebastián Hernández, Juan Manuel Betancourt, and Daniela Echeverri. The company's formation around this project suggests a tight-knit team with shared creative investment. Adriana Aparicio and David Figueroa García round out the Colombian producing contingent, alongside additional local partners Maleza Cinema and Ruvrika, both emerging Colombian production entities working in the independent and genre space. On the international side, France's Urban Factory, the genre-specialist company known for its work distributing and co-producing international arthouse and horror titles, brings European distribution muscle and financing infrastructure. Fidelio Films out of Mexico adds a Spanish-language Latin American co-production partner with regional market reach. The deal across all three production entities was finalized in May 2026 at Cannes' Fantastic Pavilion during the Fantastic Round Robin, a curated co-production market specifically designed to connect genre projects with international partners. Getting selected for that forum, let alone closing deals there, is a meaningful signal that this project has genuine international commercial ambitions beyond the festival circuit.

Bogotá will serve as the production's primary filming location, and for crew based in Colombia, this is an important detail. The Colombian capital has developed a steadily growing production infrastructure over the past decade, supported in part by Colombia's film incentive framework, which offers cash rebates for qualifying productions and has been instrumental in attracting both local and international projects. Bogotá specifically offers a rich and visually diverse urban environment that suits a story built around wealth disparity and confined domestic spaces. The city has a growing local crew base with experience across both local productions and international co-productions that have based there in recent years. That said, a production of this scope and international co-production structure will likely import some specialist department heads, particularly in areas like production design, given the film's genre visual demands, and in VFX supervision if the pandemic setting requires environmental augmentation. The psychological thriller and horror genre framework also suggests a strong need in departments like special effects makeup, sound design, and potentially stunt coordination depending on the nature of the film's violent third act.

As a co-production across three countries with a genre pedigree and a Cannes-adjacent deal announcement, Los Eastman sits in a particularly interesting tier of international independent cinema. This is not a micro-budget local production, nor is it a studio-backed tentpole. It is a serious mid-range international genre film with the kind of award-circuit development history that attracts strong creative collaborators. No distributor has been publicly announced as of this writing, but Urban Factory's involvement strongly implies a European sales and distribution strategy is already in motion. The production's genre positioning, class-horror with a pandemic setting and a revenge narrative, places it in a commercially viable international market slot that has performed well in recent years across streaming and theatrical in Europe and Latin America. Union status for the Colombian shoot has not been confirmed, though productions of this profile in Colombia typically operate under local guild agreements coordinated through Proimágenes Colombia.

With cameras not scheduled to roll until January 2027, Los Eastman is early enough in its timeline that the crew hiring process is just beginning to take shape. This is the window when the right introduction matters most. Professionals interested in working on this production, whether based in Bogotá or available for an international co-production of this scale, should act now to get in front of the producing team before department head positions are locked. ProductionList.com carries the full production listing for Los Eastman, including available contact information, producing team details, and scheduling updates as they are confirmed. Bookmark it, check back regularly, and reach out early. On a production with this much international attention already behind it, the crew conversations will not wait long.

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