J-ok'el is a Mexican thriller of 2007, directed by Benjamin Williams. Who deviated from the usual stories about spirits showing an ending where the good guy do not always win and many lit environments, in a narrative designed to surprise connoisseurs of the genre. This film is William's debut. An American man travels to a small town in Chiapas, Mexico called San Cristobal de las Casas, to help his mother when he know that his stepsister has been abduced. Everything indicates that it is a wave of kidnappings attributed to the legendary J-ok'el . Woman who drowned her children ever ago and... whose spirit has returned to take other children and thus forget their own suffering. The film won gold medal for best music in the Park City Film Festival in Park City, Utah. J-ok'el means "weeping woman" in Tzotzil dialect. Budget was $500,000 USD.
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| Release date: | March 1, 2007 |
| Directed by: | Benjamin Williams |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
| Producer: | Andrés Rodríguez Franco, Juan Carlos Arizmendi, Benjamin Williams, Paola Madrazo del Río |
| Editor: | Slater Dixon |
| Music by: | George Shaw |
| Cinematography: | Andy Waruszewski |
| Screenplay by: | Peter Theis, Alondra Salinas, Jeremy Svenson, Andy Whitaker |
| Genre: | Thriller |