Miami World Premiere ‘Parsley’ Bows Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)

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Anna Marie de la Fuente Dominican filmmaker Jose Maria Cabral has shared the trailer to his eighth feature, “Parsley,” with Variety ahead of its world premiere at the Miami Int’l Film Festival.New York-based Visit Films is handling world sales rights on the drama.As in his Sundance title “Woodpeckers” (“Carpinteros”) and his more recent films, Cabral trains his lens on the marginalized in his country. “Parsley” (“Perejil”) is based on the 1937 Perejil Massacre when Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the execution of Haitian communities on the country’s border with Haiti.

In some cases, soldiers verified the person’s Haitian roots by how they pronounced the word perejil (parsley), where their French-Haitian Creole accents would give them away.

The infamous massacre is seen through the eyes of Marie (Cyndie Lundy) a young Haitian woman, nine months pregnant, whose loving husband Frank (Ramon Emilio Candelario) is a Dominican.

Despite the rising racial tensions, she lives a peaceful life with him until one night, the soldiers raid the village to carry out Trujillo’s order.The trailer opens at the funeral of Marie’s mother, then segues to Frank reassuring her that she will be safe despite warnings about the pending attacks.