High concept horror film “Rosario” gets a star-studded cast. David Dastmalchian (“Oppenheimer”), José Zúñiga (“Twilight”), Diana Lein (“Fear the Walking Dead”), Paul Ben-Victor (“The Irishman”) and Emilia Faucher (“CODA”) will join rising star Emeraude Toubia (“Shadowhunters”).
Penned by Alan Trezza (“We Summon the Darkness”), the New York-set story revolves around Rosario (Toubia), a successful Wall Street stockbroker who finds herself trapped in her estranged grandmother Griselda’s apartment during a snowstorm. Griselda has died, and supernatural forces are possessing her body. Now the target of a deadly family curse, Rosario must battle her past to save herself and her soul.
“Rosario” marks the feature debut of Colombian filmmaker Felipe Vargas, a DGA Award winner for his viral horror short “Milk Teeth,” which has led to projects with Paramount, Sony and Lionsgate. He was named one of Variety’s 10 Latino Content Creators to Watch last year.
Colombian-Venezuelan cinematographer Carmen Cabana, whose credits include “Ms. Marvel,” Netflix’s “Resident Evil” and “Narcos,” will shoot the film.
“Rosario is produced by Jon Silk of Silk Mass and Javier Chapa and Phillip Braun of Mucho Mas. The film is executive produced by Highland Film Group’s Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier, as well as Toubia, Bruce Barshop, Vincent Cordero, Simon Wise and Kristopher Wynne.
Mucho Mas Media is financing and producing the film, while Highland Film Group is handling worldwide sales at the AFM. Production will begin in mid-November in Bogotá, Colombia, under a tentative SAG-AFTRA agreement. “We cannot wait for the cameras to roll on this smart and chilling film in the vein of the Blumhouse films,” said Arianne Fraser, CEO of Highland Film Group.
