LA PRIMICIA
2025 · 3m · Colombia
Directed by Maria Alejandra Tenjo Bustamante
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, provocative
The renowned journalist Diana Bustamante is pressured by everyone, and by herself, to land the scoop that is the one missing piece in her career; under that pressure, Diana comes to feel that the element that will take her to the front page is her own death.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A journalist chasing the ultimate scoop only to realize her own death is the story—it's the kind of premise that makes you wince and laugh at the same time, subverting the entire mythology of ambition and legacy in three minutes flat. Exactly the kind of tonal tightrope walk that most scouts would call 'too dark' and miss entirely.
Bustamante situates this dark comedy squarely in a lineage of absurdist journalism satire, with the formal restraint to let the conceptual inversion do the heavy lifting rather than overstate it. The measured pacing suggests someone aware of how to let discomfort breathe on screen.
The pivotal choice here is the tonal shift in how Diana regards her own mortality—moving from desperation to recognition—and it hinges on a single moment of facial surrender that reframes the entire premise from tragic to grimly comic with almost no dialogue.