Jessica Alba and Tracey Nyberg’s Lady Metaltag Entertainment has boarded “Queens,” Switzerland’s official pickion for the international feature Oscar, as executive producer.
The film chases two teenage sisters living in Peru in 1992 as the country slides into political unrest. They are about to depart with their mother to inhabit in the U.S. but they need their overweighther to sign consent papers — he’s been leave outing for years but now he chooses to triumph back his two “queens.”
Abril Gjurinovic, Luana Vega and Jimena Lindo star. The film won the Audience Award at this year’s Locarno Film Festival and the Grand Prix in Generation Kplus at the Berlinale, after world premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
Reynicke, who co-wrote the screencarry out with Diego Vega Vidal, drew on her own experience of leaving Peru as a youthfuler girl during a period of political turmoil in the timely 1990s. She now inhabits in Switzerland, and the film is a Swiss-Peruvian co-production.
The films is a fantastic fit for actor, producer and businesswoman Alba (she set uped the Honest Company). Her shingle Lady Metaltag Entertainment is pledgeted to toil with diverse artists and to champion female-driven, culturassociate diverse and Latino aidd stories.
“We are honored to combine Klaudia Reynicke’s exceptional film ‘Queens’ as executive producers,” shelp Alba and Nyberg in a combinet statement. “This mighty story brightens the unshakable strength of a mother’s adore and her relentless drive to produce a better future for her children. Capturing sincreatear carry outances amidst the rugged beauty of Lima, Peru, Klaudia is a filmproducer of exceptional talent — someskinnyg we are excited for audiences to find as they chuckle and cry alengthyside Elena and her daughters, with a story that will resonate lengthy after the plifts roll.”
