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Alicia Witt, renowned for her star turn in box office hit ‘Longlegs”opposite Nicolas Cage, will play alongside María Camila Giraldo (“The Ritual”) in the upcoming Colombian horror thriller, ‘Incuba Project.’
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filmmaker Juan Pablo Arias will direct the English-language feature, which is slated to shoot in Colombia.
“Incuba Project” is the first feature from Red Script Factory, the in-house writers’ room of Red Collision Studios, founded in Colombia by producers Vanessa Gómez and Sebastián Caballero.
“We’re building a slate of genre films made in Colombia for a global audience, with original stories developed in our own writers’ room. ‘Incuba Project’ is the clearest expression of that: a story rooted in Latin American reality, told with the scale and talent to travel anywhere,” said Caballero, CEO of Red Collision Studios.
Penned by María Camila Caballero Páez (“Más allá de la lluvia”), an in-house writer at Red Collision, the drama follows Jhoana (played by Giraldo), a Colombian immigrant who turns to surrogacy to make ends meet and allow her to care for her young son.
She meets other women in similar situations at the Maternity Incuba Care, an agency that promises to help but under the condition that the women must spend all nine months of their pregnancy inside its remote facility. As her pregnancy progresses, the other women begin to vanish one by one, Jhoana uncovers the nefarious secret the agency is hiding. Witt plays Minerva, the head of the agency and the women’s caretaker.
“’Incuba Project’ has a premise rich in horror textures, with many opportunities to build atmosphere and fear, but it also carries a very specific line of political and social critique. Not every film manages that combination. This is a project that can walk the line between commercial and auteur filmmaking in a clear and determined way and that’s what drew me to it. I’m very happy that this is also what Red Collision wants to do with the film,” said Arias, whose credits include “Casa Grande” with Lou Diamond Phillips and horror feature “The Curse of the Necklace” (2024), theatrically released in the U.S. by Warner Bros.
“Genre cinema has the power to expose what others prefer not to talk about; ‘Get Out’ is a great example of that. In ‘Incuba Project,’ the horror is rooted in what is done to the female body: the exploitation of migrant women who, seeking a better life for their families, end up being used by a system that treats them as commodities,” said Gómez, executive producer at Red Collision Studios.
“We wanted to tell this story because Jhoana’s fight is the fight of millions of women whose bodies have been turned into a business, and this film is our way of making sure they are no longer invisible,” she added.
The film marks Witt’s return to horror after Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” (2024) and Rebecca Kezian’s “Twisted” (2026) with Djimon Hounsou.
Giraldo recently appeared opposite Al Pacino and Dan Stevens in the exorcism thriller “The Ritual” and alongside Amy Adams in Kornél Mundruczó’s “At the Sea,” which screened in competition at the this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Founded in 2017, Red Collision also runs production service company Film in Colombia and post-production studio Magic Trick Post Lab. Gómez and Caballero form part of a new generation of producers driving Colombia’s burgeoning film industry, buoyed by film incentives that have boosted international location shoots and local filmmaking.
This is not the first time the company has forged ties with Chile. In July, filming began of the five-country co-production it lead produces with Chile’s Afro Films, “La puta vida” starring Colombian actor Claudio Cataño of “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”
Red Collision Studios’ other films include thriller “The Judge’s Shadow,” dramedy “A Certain Alonso Quijano,” both directed by Libia Stella Gomez, and “The Lagoon” by Octavio Revol Molina.
