LA RECETTE DU BONHEUR

Logline: After the death of their boss, Saïda and her colleagues want to transform their restaurant into a coop. But between debt, egos, and differing views, overcoming the chaos will be an uphill battle.

Director: Stéphane Moukarzel (Sapins, Double Jeux)

Writer: Jean Pierre Gorkynian

Producer: Boris Rodriguez

 

EDDIE THE SLEEPWALKING CANNIBAL

Theatrically released in the US and Europe and winner of multiple International awards including the Méliès d’Argent and the Neuchâtel Film Festival Award for best feature.

Logline: A painter struggling for inspiration finds an unexpected muse after he accepts a teaching position in a small town and becomes the caregiver to Eddie, a seemingly docile art student with a rare sleepwalking condition.

Writer-Director: Boris Rodriguez

Producers: Boris Rodriguez, Ronnie Fridthjof

 

PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT

ZOILA AND ANDY

Winner of the 2022 TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award

Logline: At the height of the Cold War, and deep inside the Cuban Revolution, a young diplomat and her rebel boyfriend become embroiled in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.

Writer-Director: Boris Rodriguez (Eddie the Sleepwalking Cannibal)

Status: Script

EAST LOS ALIENS

Developed with the support of Film Independent’s Episodic Lab

Logline: When a spaceship crashes in East LA, an intrepid young teenager and his party-prone grandmother harbor the surviving young alien as they defy government officials and sleuth to uncover the reasons for the alien’s arrival.

Written and created by Miguel Orozco and Boris Rodriguez

Status: Pilot script

COVET

Logline: Just north of the Rio Grande, the lives of an undocumented Mexican bricklayer with a mysterious past, and the wife of his wealthy employer become tragically entangled when a domestic dispute takes a turn for the worse. 

Written by Boris Rodriguez

Status: script

TROPICAL QUÉBEC

Logline: Tropical Québec tells the story of a group of Latin-Americans who are lured to Canada with the promise of a better future, only to be trapped working for slave wages at a Cuban-themed resort.

Created and Produced by https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0735257/?ref_=tt_fm_prodr

Satus: In development

 

CENTURY OF REDEMPTION

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Logline: After having been exiled on a prison spaceship for 100 years and forced to perform rituals of submission, a group of rebel androids begin to turn on each other just as human judges arrive to decide their fate.

Feature-length romantic sci-Fi thriller.

Writer: Shawn Whitney (A Brand New You, FMWBH)

Status: Scrit

 

YESTERDAY WILL BE

Recipient of fudning from the CMF’s Writer First Program

Logline: Yesterday Will Be follows a nerdy young quantum physicist who accidentally plucks a dashing astronaut from the 21st century into her future world where peace and harmony have reigned ever since love was banished.

Series creators: Boris Rodriguez and Erik Virtanen

Status: Pilot script