The Lost City of The Monkey God

Feature film musical script (Drama, suspense, and adventure)

- Length ca. 90 min

Script writer Moises Sanchez

SYNOPSIS

A discovery that makes 1940s New York throb, while a filmmaker from Los Angeles, California, the goal of finding a lost city in the jungles of Honduras is traced, fighting against the bureaucracy, exposing his life in drug trafficking territory and under natural disasters and a community that wants them to respect their ancestral values and an exotic jungle full of the spirits of the monkey god. Inspired by real events where the technology of our time allows the encounter with the past.

Program Note

In 2015 the official announcement of this great discovery was made. After this official announcement I dedicated myself to research in depth about this discovery to write this script. I have always been attracted to the themes of lost cities and ancient civilizations. This discovery caught my attention because it happened in my native Honduras, and I was also very interested to know that there was a connection with the New York of the 40’s, because curiously in 1933 the movie King Kong had premiered in the Radio City Music Hall in New York. It also filled me with great interest to know that the technological elements of our time helped to discover this wonderful lost city that was sought by many explorers since the time of Hernan Cortés.

I share excerpts from the script through the songs I have composed (Audio in Spanish with English subtitles).