EXCLUSIVE: Moisés Arias (Fallout), Teresa Ruiz (Narcos: Mexico), Ignacio Diaz-Silverio (Primo) and Augusto Aguilera (Predator) are starring in film crime-thriller 52nd State, which is underway in Bogotá, Colombia.
Written by Ivan Krim and Todd S. Yellin, and directed by the latter, the film is impressed by true occasions and performs out in opposition to the backdrop of a global rip-off operation in Costa Rica.
The film marks an attention-grabbing subsequent chapter within the profession of director Yellin, who spent 17 years at Netflix serving to revolutionize the leisure enterprise. As the previous head of product, he performed a pivotal function in shaping the platform’s data-driven method to viewers engagement. He’s credited with an array of developments, together with main the creation of Netflix’s “tudum” sonic trademark and advancing the corporate’s customized content material suggestions. On the finish of 2022, he left the entertainment-tech big to pursue his unique ardour—filmmaking, having made his function debut with 2006 low-budget indie Brother’s Shadow. 52nd State marks his sophomore movie as director.
Pic is produced by Components and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy (The Lighthouse) and Fernando Ferro (The Birthday Cake). Government producers embrace Phillip Kumin (Dallas Patrons Membership), Juan Pablo Solano (Rosario), Simon Beltrán (Luckiest Man in America), and Regina Solorzano (Triangle of Unhappiness).
Set within the shadows of Costa Rica’s booming tech sector in 2010, the story follows Felipe (Arias), a reserved IT employee whose new job hides one thing way more sinister than it appears. As he’s pulled deeper into an online of deception and legal exploitation, Felipe should resolve how far he’s keen to go to do what’s proper—earlier than the system swallows him complete.
“That is the form of story I’ve at all times wished to inform—one which entertains whereas shining a lightweight on real-world injustice,” mentioned Yellin. “It’s about individuals pretending to be what they’re not and the twisted ethical complexity that outcomes. After years of empowering different filmmakers by means of expertise, I felt compelled to inform a narrative that merges heart-pounding suspense with deeply human themes. 52nd State isn’t only a thriller—it’s about coming to phrases with who we actually are.”
The movie is produced alongside Bogota-based manufacturing service firm Jaguar Chew in Colombia and Costa Rica. It was permitted to obtain the CINA incentive (Audiovisual Funding Certificates), granted by the Colombian authorities and administered by Proimágenes Colombia.
Arias was most not too long ago seen in Amazon’s Fallout and beforehand starred in Clint Bentley’s Jockey and Sundance Movie Competition 2019 World Cinema Dramatic Particular Jury Award Monos. Ruiz adopted her breakout in Narcos: Mexico with a lead function in Netflix’s Mo. Ignacio Diaz-Silverio was the lead of Amazon Freevee’s Primo, and can subsequent be seen in Dwell Nation’s Inexperienced Day-inspired function New Years Rev. Augusto Aguilera, recognized for The Predator and Too Outdated to Die Younger, not too long ago starred reverse Jennifer Garner in The Final Factor He Instructed Me.
Moisés Arias is represented by Unbiased Artist Group and Myman Greenspan. Ruiz is represented by Progressive Artists, Eliseo Ruiz, and Hirsch Wallerstein. Augusto Aguilera is represented by Unbiased Artist Group and Nameless Content material. Ignacio Diaz-Silverio is represented by Gersh and Brookside Artist Administration. Director Todd Yellin and producers Fernando Ferro and Jay Van Hoy are represented by Andrew Randone of The BALA Agency.
