Jessica Alba and Tracey Nyberg’s Girl Metalmark Leisure has boarded “Queens,” Switzerland’s official choice for the worldwide characteristic Oscar, as government producer.

The movie follows two teenage sisters residing in Peru in 1992 because the nation slides into political unrest. They’re about to depart with their mom to reside within the U.S. however they want their father to signal consent papers — he’s been absent for years however now he decides to win again his two “queens.”

Abril Gjurinovic, Luana Vega and Jimena Lindo star. The movie gained the Viewers Award at this 12 months’s Locarno Movie Pageant and the Grand Prix in Era Kplus on the Berlinale, after world premiering on the Sundance Movie Pageant.

Reynicke, who co-wrote the screenplay with Diego Vega Vidal, drew on her personal expertise of leaving Peru as a younger woman throughout a interval of political turmoil within the early Nineteen Nineties. She now lives in Switzerland, and the movie is a Swiss-Peruvian co-production.

The movies is a superb match for actor, producer and businesswoman Alba (she based the Trustworthy Firm). Her shingle Girl Metalmark Leisure is dedicated to work with numerous artists and to champion female-driven, culturally numerous and Latino impressed tales.

“We’re honored to hitch Klaudia Reynicke’s extraordinary movie ‘Queens’ as government producers,” mentioned Alba and Nyberg in a joint assertion. “This highly effective story illuminates the unshakable power of a mom’s love and her relentless drive to create a greater future for her kids. Capturing stellar performances amidst the rugged great thing about Lima, Peru, Klaudia is a filmmaker of outstanding expertise — one thing we’re excited for audiences to find as they giggle and cry alongside Elena and her daughters, with a narrative that can resonate lengthy after the credit roll.”