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
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