Carole Horst Jessica Alba and Tracey Nyberg’s Lady Metalmark Entertainment has boarded “Queens,” Switzerland’s official selection for the international feature Oscar, as executive producer.
The film follows two teenage sisters living in Peru in 1992 as the country slides into political unrest. They are about to leave with their mother to live in the U.S.
but they need their father to sign consent papers — he’s been absent for years but now he decides to win back his two “queens.” Abril Gjurinovic, Luana Vega and Jimena Lindo star.
The film won the Audience Award at this year’s Locarno Film Festival and the Grand Prix in Generation Kplus at the Berlinale, after world premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
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