Btf Media and American Cinema Inspires (Aci) are bowing the trailer to “Finding Love in Sisters,” the second film they have co-produced under their partnership pact.
The drama directed by Jeff Day (“Midway to Love”) follows Seattle-based junior lawyer Esperanza Barboza (Laura Carmine) who’s just been assigned to her dream case and is about to celebrate her birthday with her beau.
She finds herself, however, longing for something more than what seems to be a perfect life. News of her mother’s sudden passing takes her back home and to the even more shocking news that her mother has bequeathed the house to her. There are only two conditions: That she share the house and make peace with her estranged sisters, Caridad (Marielena Dávila) and Faith (Valentina Izarra).
Debuting exclusively in Variety, the trailer opens to her officemates singing happy birthday to her and her boss announcing that he...
The drama directed by Jeff Day (“Midway to Love”) follows Seattle-based junior lawyer Esperanza Barboza (Laura Carmine) who’s just been assigned to her dream case and is about to celebrate her birthday with her beau.
She finds herself, however, longing for something more than what seems to be a perfect life. News of her mother’s sudden passing takes her back home and to the even more shocking news that her mother has bequeathed the house to her. There are only two conditions: That she share the house and make peace with her estranged sisters, Caridad (Marielena Dávila) and Faith (Valentina Izarra).
Debuting exclusively in Variety, the trailer opens to her officemates singing happy birthday to her and her boss announcing that he...
- 5/5/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Location shooting is underway for “Finding Love in Sisters,” which features a cast with about one million followers apiece on social media: Puerto Rican-born Laura Carmine, Miami-based Marielena Dávila and U.K. model-actor Nick Hounslow.
“Finding Love in Sisters” follows drama “Finding Love in San Antonio,” co-produced by leading indie production shingle Btf Media and L.A.-based American Cinema Inspires (Aci), which teamed up last year to develop and produce films with predominantly U.S. Latino talent.
Written by D.F.W. Buckingham (“Finding Love in San Antonio”) and helmed by Jeff Day (“Midway Love”), the romantic drama centers on Esperanza (Carmine), a successful lawyer whose dream life is showing some cracks. Her mother suggests she visit their hometown of Sisters, Oregon to get recharged but she chooses to stay at her job. When Esperanza’s mother dies, she returns home, although she is wary of reuniting with her two sisters,...
“Finding Love in Sisters” follows drama “Finding Love in San Antonio,” co-produced by leading indie production shingle Btf Media and L.A.-based American Cinema Inspires (Aci), which teamed up last year to develop and produce films with predominantly U.S. Latino talent.
Written by D.F.W. Buckingham (“Finding Love in San Antonio”) and helmed by Jeff Day (“Midway Love”), the romantic drama centers on Esperanza (Carmine), a successful lawyer whose dream life is showing some cracks. Her mother suggests she visit their hometown of Sisters, Oregon to get recharged but she chooses to stay at her job. When Esperanza’s mother dies, she returns home, although she is wary of reuniting with her two sisters,...
- 10/13/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
In a move aimed at powering up more content for the massive U.S. Hispanic market and beyond, leading indie production shingle Btf Media has teamed up with L.A.-based American Cinema Inspires (Aci) to develop and produce a slew of Hispanic productions with predominantly U.S. Latino talent.
Leading the vanguard is Sandra Martin’s “Finding Love in San Antonio,” which follows Adela, a successful Latina chef in L.A. (played by Valentina Izarra), who is offered a plum job at a new network series that will send her across Europe. While visiting San Antonio, she meets David (George Akram), a local food writer who wrote a blistering piece about her. Their unlikely romance will lead to Adela’s rediscovery of her hometown and force her to decide whether she should stay in San Antonio or accept the once-in-a-lifetime job offer.
“Giving women a voice has always been important to me.
Leading the vanguard is Sandra Martin’s “Finding Love in San Antonio,” which follows Adela, a successful Latina chef in L.A. (played by Valentina Izarra), who is offered a plum job at a new network series that will send her across Europe. While visiting San Antonio, she meets David (George Akram), a local food writer who wrote a blistering piece about her. Their unlikely romance will lead to Adela’s rediscovery of her hometown and force her to decide whether she should stay in San Antonio or accept the once-in-a-lifetime job offer.
“Giving women a voice has always been important to me.
- 10/21/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
When Hallmark Channel contacted American Cinema Intl. president Chevonne O’Shaughnessy about producing a movie set in the Amish community, she immediately sent an outline for one. Aci had already produced three Amish-themed movies for other outlets, so she figured she’d quickly be brought on board.
But O’Shaughnessy says Hallmark didn’t call her back. And she couldn’t figure out why — but then started watching the channel. After going on a Hallmark movie binge, “all of a sudden it hit me,” she says. “I didn’t have a dog. So I added a dog. And I got a call back. It was that simple.”
The TV movie business is a fickle one, even in this era of Peak TV and new streaming services. The independent producers behind made-for-tv films must navigate tiny budgets, narrow audiences with specific tastes, outlets that want to own those titles and just a...
But O’Shaughnessy says Hallmark didn’t call her back. And she couldn’t figure out why — but then started watching the channel. After going on a Hallmark movie binge, “all of a sudden it hit me,” she says. “I didn’t have a dog. So I added a dog. And I got a call back. It was that simple.”
The TV movie business is a fickle one, even in this era of Peak TV and new streaming services. The independent producers behind made-for-tv films must navigate tiny budgets, narrow audiences with specific tastes, outlets that want to own those titles and just a...
- 11/28/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
"There wasn't one woman, not one woman, that I could look up to and say 'I want to be that woman." Things have changed in the 50 years since producer Marion Rosenberg started in the entertainment industry, said the Women in Film trustee and mentoring co-chair at the organization's inaugural Speed Mentoring session on October 29. She was talking with twenty mentors and twenty mentees, comprised of Wif members who were chosen based on the strength of their proposed questions. Back then there were no role models for women who wanted to climb the entertainment industry ladder. "The fact that we're doing this today and that we have such a powerful mentoring committee is wonderful," said Speed Mentoring creator and Wif trustee Chevonne O'Shaughnessy. "But it took fifty years! We can't let it be another fifty years. I think we're also having this so that we won't have this problem for the next generation.
- 10/31/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
You don't need to show Jesus on the cross to make a hit religious film. In fact, you don't need that much religion at all. Catherine Shoard hears the good news from the makers of 'faith films'
Blog: What's your relationship with God at the flicks?
Generally, when a camera breaks on a film set, the first move is to call the technicians. Not so on Letters to God. When equipment went wrong on that film – a based-on-a-true-story weepie about a cancer-stricken child whose missives to the almighty redeem an alcoholic postman – the drill was: pray first, check the fuses later. But it wasn't just techies falling to their knees. It was religious professionals.
"We had prayer warriors on set every day," says director David Nixon, "people who knew nothing of film-making, but who knew how to pray. When I'd yell 'action' they'd go into action and start praying. They'd pray for the actors.
Blog: What's your relationship with God at the flicks?
Generally, when a camera breaks on a film set, the first move is to call the technicians. Not so on Letters to God. When equipment went wrong on that film – a based-on-a-true-story weepie about a cancer-stricken child whose missives to the almighty redeem an alcoholic postman – the drill was: pray first, check the fuses later. But it wasn't just techies falling to their knees. It was religious professionals.
"We had prayer warriors on set every day," says director David Nixon, "people who knew nothing of film-making, but who knew how to pray. When I'd yell 'action' they'd go into action and start praying. They'd pray for the actors.
- 6/20/2010
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Four new members have been elected to the board of Women in Film, Los Angeles: Susanne Daniels, media consultant and former president of entertainment at Lifetime Networks; Diana Derycz-Kessler, president and CEO of the L.A. Film School and L.A. Recording School; Iris Grossman, Icm talent agent and president emeritus of Wif, L.A.; and producer Cathy Schulman, president of Mandalay Pictures and Mandalay Independent.
The group's president, Jane Fleming, who is entering her third consecutive year at the head of Wif, L.A., said: "With Susanne, Diana, Iris and Cathy joining our already exceptional board of directors, Women in Film is perfectly positioned to support our membership -- and the entertainment industry at large -- in the unique challenges and opportunities we all face."
In addition to Fleming, the organization's officers are Nicole Katz, Cfo; Hillary Bibicoff, secretary; Glen Alpert, Cfo; Robert Nieto, vp technology; and Pamela Rodi,...
The group's president, Jane Fleming, who is entering her third consecutive year at the head of Wif, L.A., said: "With Susanne, Diana, Iris and Cathy joining our already exceptional board of directors, Women in Film is perfectly positioned to support our membership -- and the entertainment industry at large -- in the unique challenges and opportunities we all face."
In addition to Fleming, the organization's officers are Nicole Katz, Cfo; Hillary Bibicoff, secretary; Glen Alpert, Cfo; Robert Nieto, vp technology; and Pamela Rodi,...
- 2/6/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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