EXCLUSIVE: I’m Nonetheless Right here Producer Rodrigo Teixeira is teaming with LA-based filmmaking duo Rami Kodeih and Nora Mariana on financial institution heist drama, impressed by the real-life collapse of Lebanon’s banking system in 2019.
Kodeih is about to direct from an unique screenplay co-written with Mariana. The pair beforehand collaborated on Warsaw Ghetto-set brief Alina and Maki & Zorro.
Teixeira is producing underneath his RT Options banner alongside Mariana and Kodeih. The movie is at present in manufacturing in Lebanon.
CAA Media Finance is dealing with gross sales. Govt producers embrace Berta Marchiori for RT Options; David Levine and Jeff Okin for Nameless Content material; and Riccardo Maddalosso for Feig Finkel LLP. Marie-Lynn Nasrallah will function co-executive producer, Jennifer Haddad as affiliate producer, and Joshua Owen as co-associate producer.
Wolves takes place in Beirut throughout Lebanon’s real-life 2019 financial collapse and revolves round a younger lady who’s unable to withdraw her life’s financial savings, which she must pay for her sister’s uterus most cancers surgical procedure.
They recruit a truck driver and an ex-militia fighter to hatch a daring all-night plan to take what’s rightfully theirs from the corrupt banking system. However as their scheme escalates, so does the hazard, forcing them to confront the true value of survival, justice, and sisterhood in a metropolis on the brink.
The mission dates again to Could 2020, when Kodeih and Mariana have been impressed by their very own financial savings being caught in Lebanon throughout banking disaster.
The idea originated when the banks first shut off depositors and Mariana despatched a DM to a good friend asking: “Do I want to jot down a heist film about me stealing my very own cash?” This preliminary story thought was greater than two years earlier than a string of financial institution robberies that swept by Beirut.
Beirut-raised author and director Kodeih’s work has screened at Cannes Administrators’, BFI London Movie Pageant and Clermont-Ferrand.
His most up-to-date brief movie Alina, starring Alia Shawkat, screened at over 250 movie festivals worldwide, successful 150 pageant awards. Different credit embrace shorts Maki & Zorro, The Mill, and A Sheherazade Story, in addition to the documentary Wheels of Struggle.
Author Mariana’s latest credit embrace the Sam Esmail-produced miniseries Angelyne in addition to a number of collaborations with Kodeih on Apple’s Little America in addition to award-winning shorts Alina and Maki & Zorro.
Kodeih and Mariana have developed initiatives with Pablo Larraín’s Fabula, Participant Media and Alfonso Cuarón’s Esperanto Filmoj. They’re each represented by Nameless Content material.
RT Options is at present in pre-production for James Grey’s Paper Tiger starring two-time Academy Award nominee Scarlett Johansson and BAFTA-nominee Miles Teller, and lately produced Walter Salles’ I’m Nonetheless Right here, which received the Oscar for Finest Worldwide Function Movie.
