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EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood shaper Mark Johnson is known for his two-decade collaboration pinch AMC, including connected nan Breaking Bad and Anne Rice universes, arsenic good arsenic a drawstring of deed movies specified arsenic Oscar winners Rain Man and The Holdovers.
His latest task is simply a flimsy alteration of gears. Principal photography has begun connected nan indie romantic drama Hope/Esperanza and will proceed shooting passim locations successful Costa Rica until nan extremity of May.
Emmy-winning documentarian Abigail Fuller makes her fictional debut connected nan task from a screenplay she has written, loosely based connected a play of her youth. Fuller is champion known for her activity on Chef’s Table and was besides Emmy-nominated for Mastermind: To Think Like A Killer.
The movie stars newcomer Olivia Daponde arsenic nan film’s protagonist, Mayra Hermosillo (Narcos), Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad), Virgilio Delgado (No One Will Miss Us), and Lara Yuja Mora (Abril).
The synopsis reads: “Desperate to flight her accepted suburban life successful upstate New York, a teen joins a overseas speech programme successful Costa Rica successful hunt of freedom. Instead, her world narrows nether nan norm of a strict big mother, until a forbidden romance pinch an undocumented Nicaraguan migrant upends everything. As tensions astir migration simmer, their narration puts some of them astatine risk. Caught betwixt recklessness and self-discovery, she must determine who she wants to beryllium — and wherever she belongs.”
Johnson is producing and executive shaper is Mexico City-based Alejandra Cardenas. Esteban Quesada serves arsenic nan Costa Rican producer. Sarah Quintero and Jessica Mollo are nan co-producers.
Alexander D. Paul (Chef’s Table) is nan head of photography, and Rocio Gimenez (Friendship) is nan accumulation designer. The mostly of nan 200+ formed and unit hails from Costa Rica, pinch respective contributors coming from different parts of Latin America.
