

“I consider it necessary to think about a trans narrative in cinema, and this film is a huge possibility to immerse ourselves in a story built by the hands of a trans person to talk about another trans person, with something so authentic and disconcerting for cinema like that,” said film’s writer-director Van de Couter. Even at the cost of its principal character’s body, a trans actress with a life that she wants and that is difficult for her,” said Sosa Villada. “The trans story is no longer that of someone who spies on us and tries to fleece our history to give away a creation that escapes from pitiful, pious and documentary. The screen adaptation of the novel is in charge of Sosa Villada, Van de Couter and Huberman. Huberman and Pavon produced Ana Katz’s “The Dog who Wouldn’t be Quiet” which had its world premiere at Sundance and clinched the best feature film prize at Rotterdam (IFFR).The domestication from which they derive their peace will be threatened by a trip to the town where the actress’s family lives.Īrgentina’s Laura Huberman (“Alanís,” “El perro que no calla”) and Ramiro Pavón (“El perfecto David,” “El perro que no calla”) will produce, in co-production with La Corriente del Golfo. Luna stars in Disney+’s well reviewed “Star Wars” prequel series, “Andor.”Īs producers and directors, they have made series, films and podcasts, among them: “Chicuarotes” (Netflix) directed by García Bernal, “Aquí en la Tierra” (Star +) by García Bernal and Kyzza Terrazas “Pan y Circo” (Prime Video) and “Todo va a estar bien” (Netflix), both directed by Luna.īoth are starring in “La Máquina” (Hulu), helmed by Gabriel Ripstein (“600 Miles”). Garcia Bernal most recently starred in “Cassandro,” which had its world premiere at Sundance, where he plays a gay lucha libre wrestler.

“One of the aspects that interests me the most about the lawyer’s character is that he decides to ask himself questions in the face of a relationship that he never expected or projected, and that these questions return to the possibility of love,” said Javier Van de Couter, the film’s director and screenwriter. In “Tesis…” he plays the successful, charismatic lawyer who has lived in Argentina for some years where he’s had a few girlfriends in order to keep up appearances until he falls for the trans actress with whom he decides to form a family. He also stars in Netflix’s upcoming Zack Snyder space fantasy epic, “Rebel Moon.” Herrera expressed his delight at sharing the big screen with Sosa Villada “for whom I have deep respect and admiration,” he said.
