Rodrigo Teixeira’s RT Features Boards Iván Fund’s Sci-Fi Drama ‘Bodies of Summer’
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Rodrigo Teixeira's Brazil-based RT Features, producer of the 2025 Oscar winner "I'm Still Here" and James Gray's 2026 Cannes contender "Paper Tiger," has boarded "Bodies of Summer," a sci-fi drama from Iván Fund, who won a Berlin Film Festival 2025 Silver Bear Jury Prize for "The Message." The announcement was made just hours before Teixeira was scheduled to give a 90-minute talk at Madrid's ECAM Forum, a co-production forum celebrating its third edition over June 9-11. RT Features will produce and fully finance the film, which is set in a not-so-distant future where death is no longer definitive and a body's consciousness can survive in a digital limbo and return in a different body. The story follows Rana, who after 100 years as data, comes back to life in a makeshift body and returns to find his son, now an old man, who defies the system by choosing to die naturally. Fund will direct from a screenplay co-written with Martín Felipe Castagnet, based on Castagnet's awarded novel of the same name. This marks the duo's third feature together after co-penning "Dusk Stone" and "The Message."
What’s reported
Rodrigo Teixeira's RT Features has boarded "Bodies of Summer," a sci-fi drama from Iván Fund.
Fund won a Berlin Film Festival 2025 Silver Bear Jury Prize for "The Message."
The film is set in a future where death is not definitive; consciousness can survive in a digital limbo and return in a different body.
The protagonist, Rana, returns after 100 years as data in a makeshift body to find his son, who chooses to die naturally.
Fund will direct from a screenplay co-written with Martín Felipe Castagnet, based on Castagnet's awarded novel "Los cuerpos del verano."
RT Features will produce and fully finance the film.
The announcement was made just before Teixeira's talk at Madrid's ECAM Forum, held June 9-11.
Key figures
Rodrigo Teixeira, producer and founder of RT Features
Iván Fund, director and co-writer
Martín Felipe Castagnet, co-writer and author of the novel
Sources: Variety
