El Salvador Civil War Movie ‘Fireflies at El Mozote,’ Exec Produced by Bob Yari, Greenlit by Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorBob Yari, whose credits include “Crash” and “Yellowstone,” will serve as executive producer on “Fireflies at El Mozote,” one of three films set in El Salvador greenlit by Premiere Entertainment, alongside “Toque de Queda” and “The Incredible Journey of Elba.” Moctesuma Esparza and Premiere CEO Elias Axume are producing all three movies, whose primary language will be English.

Esparza’s credits include “Selena,” starring Jennifer López, “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortéz,” with Edward James Olmos, and “The Milagro Beanfield War,” directed by Robert Redford. “Fireflies,” set in 1980s El Salvador, follows a rebel group fighting to expose its government’s genocidal policies.

The group rescues a 10-year-old boy, and seek to end their government’s reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.

The director/writer is U.S.-Salvadoran Ernesto Melara. (Pictured above is an archive shot showing leftist guerrillas at a farm house in Carolina, El Salvador, after a six-hour battle with government forces in 1983.) “Fireflies,” a co-production between Premiere and the Yari Film Group, is in pre-production.