EXCLUSIVE: Alex Kahuam, director of Failure! and The Remedy, has signed with Zero Gravity Management.

The Mexican filmmaker, who is best known for his work in the indie horror features space, will be represented by Zero Gravity’s David Romero.

Kahuam was the writer and director of Tallinn Black Nights pic Failure! and Forgiveness, which screened at FrightFest, and director of his most recent film, The Remedy, which played at SXSW London and the Cannes Fantastic Pavilion.

His current pic, horror-slasher House of Holloway, wrapped production this past February. The film stars Laura Marano, Doug Jones, Orlando Piñeda, Courtney Grace and Bonnie Aarons, and follows a family of serial killers playing a twisted psychological game, competing with each other to claim the next victim from among six guests staying at their secluded home. It’s currently in post-production, and is set for a festival run next year.

Next up is Stay With Me, a supernatural psychological horror film set against the backdrop of a music festival, and an untitled sci-fi horror “in the vein of Alien,” according to his company, Kahuam Films.

“I’m very excited to work with David Romero at Zero Gravity Management,” said Kahaum. “When we first met it was clear from the beginning that he spoke my language: The genre/horror language. I’ve made indie films for the last 14 years in the U.S. and diving into the independent film industry before, during and after Covid-19 when everything changed has been very challenging.

“It’s no longer enough to be just a ‘director’; you have to be a ‘filmmaker’ and do it all. With this new collaboration I believe my independent experience and knowledge, combined with David’s great track record working with Hollywood studios and companies for his clients will be the best combination. I’m ready to transition to bigger films and wider audiences.”

Here’s the first trailer for Jordan Firstman’s buzzy feature debut, Club Kid. 

A24, which acquired the film out of Cannes, will place the title in a limited theatrical release from Nov. 6.

The movie follows Firstman as a hard-partying New York City club promoter whose life is upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had. Firstman also wrote the movie.

The pic received a seven-minute standing ovation at its Cannes premiere. A24 reportedly beat out multiple bidders to land the title.

Deadline film critic Damon Wise described the film as “an unlikely but still beautifully human story” and praised Firstman’s “elegant switch into a more serious tone, one that addresses all the questions you might have had about this man and his fitness to raise a kid.”

Speaking with Deadline at Cannes, Firstman said the inspiration behind the film was “a period in my life where — it’s going to sound wrong — I was just around a bunch of kids for some reason. My friends started having kids, and I was getting along with them in a funny way, and they would always laugh at me with kids.” 

He added: “So in the first iteration, I’m just like, ‘Oh, me and a kid, funny, ha ha. Adam Sandler, blah, blah, blah.’ And then through the process of writing it, I went through a breakup, and that partner and I, we partied a lot together. He was in Berlin, and so I had just a lot of exposure to that scene and was just partying a lot myself and finding myself at this crossroads where the drugs were not hitting like they used to. But you keep doing them, and you’re like, ‘So they’re not working, and I feel horrible for a week.’ And so I kind of just wanted to explore that. And then as I kept writing, new things kept unfolding and honestly they keep unfolding. I still learn new things about the film and myself every time I watch it.”

Check out the trailer above.