EXCLUSIVE: HanWay Movies will signify worldwide gross sales at subsequent month’s EFM on Berlinale Competitors title La Cocina. Fifth Season co-financed the movie and is co-representing North America with WME.
Two-time Oscar nominee Rooney Mara (Carol) stars within the film which is ready over in the future in a Instances Sq. kitchen. Mexican filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios (Güeros) directs and Raúl Briones (A Cop Film) co-stars.
The movie’s synopsis reads: “It’s the lunch rush at The Grill in Manhattan, and cash has gone lacking from the until. All of the undocumented cooks are being investigated, and Pedro (Briones) is the prime suspect. He’s a dreamer and a troublemaker, and in love with Julia (Mara), an American waitress who can’t decide to a relationship. Rashid, The Grills proprietor, has promised to assist Pedro along with his papers so he can “turn into authorized”. However a stunning revelation about Julia compels Pedro to spiral into an act that may cease the manufacturing line of one of many metropolis’s busiest kitchens as soon as and for all.”
The manufacturing provides that the film is a “tragic and comedian tribute to the invisible individuals who preserve our eating places operating and our stomachs full, while chasing a maybe unreachable model of the American dream.”
Written and directed by Ruizpalacios, the film is predicated on the play by Arnold Wesker and produced by Ramiro Ruiz, Gerardo Gatica, Lauren Mann and Ivan Orlic. The mission is a co-production of Filmadora, alongside companion manufacturing firms Panorama, Fifth Season, Astrakan Movie AB and Seine Photos.
We perceive that Mara and creatives are as a consequence of attend the movie’s world premiere in Berlin.
Gabrielle Stewart, CEO Hanway Movies stated: “All the HanWay crew flipped once we screened La Cocina. Alonso is a large expertise, his solid are unimaginable, and all of us again this movie to have actual affect in Berlin. It’s a should see.”
