Check out the first look photo from Felipe Vargas’ high-concept horror film Rosario starring Emeraude Toubia (Freeform’s hit TV series “Shadowhunters,” Amazon’s “With Love”), David Dastmalchian (Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune) and José Zúñiga (Catherine Hardwicke’s blockbuster Twilight, Sony Pictures’ The Dark Tower). Production began late last year in Bogotá, Colombia and finished earlier this year in NYC, with Highland Film Group continuing sales at EFM.
ROSARIO
Director: Felipe Vargas, in his directorial debut
Writer: Alan Trezza (We Summon the Darkness, Joe Dante’s Burying the Ex)
Cast: Emeraude Toubia (Freeform’s hit TV series “Shadowhunters,” Amazon’s “With Love”), David Dastmalchian (Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune), José Zúñiga (Catherine Hardwicke’s blockbuster Twilight, Sony Pictures’ The Dark Tower), Diana Lein (AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead”), Emilia Faucher (Academy Award-winning Coda) and Paul Ben-Victor (Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman)
Status: post-production
Genre: High-concept Horror
Synopsis: Rosario (Emeraude Toubia), a successful stockbroker on Wall Street, is forced to spend the night with the body of her estranged grandmother Griselda who has abruptly died. While waiting for the ambulance and her father Oscar (José Zúñiga) to arrive, a heavy snowstorm locks her inside Griselda’s apartment, surrounded by unfriendly neighbors including the watchful Joe (David Dastmalchian). As the night endlessly stretches on, twisted and menacing supernatural forces that have possessed Griselda’s corpse begin their assault on Rosario. Now the target of a deadly family curse that spans generations, Rosario must battle everything she knows about her past to save herself and her soul in a desperate attempt to break the evil.
Producers: Silk Mass’ Jon Silk and Mucho Mas’ Javier Chapa and Phillip Braun
Worldwide Sales: Highland Film Group
