EXCLUSIVE: Sergio Lira, Lynette Coll and Cristobal Güell are launching Luz Movies, a newly shaped leisure firm based with the mission of creating Latino-focused status and elevated-genre content material from various visionary creatives and producers within the movie and TV area.
Lira and Coll will function co-CEOs whereas Guell will function CFO.
Via a collaborative group spirit, Luz Movies will produce and co-finance tasks from the Latino perspective for U.S. and world audiences. The corporate believes in mentoring and supporting tasks from debut filmmakers and connecting them with veteran Latino creatives who can collaborate with these new voices behind the digital camera and on-screen.
‘Whereas Latinos are one of many fastest-growing communities in the US, illustration for storytellers locally lags behind different demographics,” the trio shared in an unique assertion to Deadline. “Luz Movies, named with function, embodies ‘mild.’ Our mission is to light up alternatives. We intention to work with as most of the present consumers and studios however are not ready or counting on them to determine when our movies get made. We’re devoted to ushering in a brand new period of high-caliber Latin-American cinema.”
Most not too long ago, Lira served as a movie improvement & manufacturing government for 3 years at A24. Earlier than that, he was at Amazon Studios within the Authentic Drama Sequence group the place he labored on hit reveals The Hunters and Hanna. His indie movie roots started throughout his time at FilmNation Leisure.
Coll beforehand labored because the Head of Improvement at Gamechanger Movies and, earlier than that, because the Head of Improvement and Supervisor of Acquisitions at Breaker. A few of her earlier credit are Govt Producer of David Lynch Presents The Pleased Employee. Moreover, she has labored with world, rising artists akin to Zeek Earl and Christopher Caldwell on their movie Prospect (Netflix).
Güell additionally serves as a companion of the manufacturing firm Madre. Earlier than Luz Movies and Madre, he labored as a movie government at Fabula the place he government produced Sorcery and Making It Up. He additionally produced Majo Staffolani’s La Concept de Dios.
Luz Movies is at present growing a number of characteristic movies and scripted tv tasks with numerous Latino creatives born in each the U.S. and Latin America. As a part of their first enterprise, they co-financed and co-produced the upcoming characteristic In The Summers written and directed by debut filmmaker Alessandra Lacorazza and starring Rene “Residente” Perez Joglar, Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel and Leslie Grace, which Deadline revealed completely in July. The movie will compete and premiere on the Sundance Movie Pageant later this month.
The venture got here collectively partially with the assist of Emmy winner and Tony nominee, Henry R. Muñoz III, proprietor & chairman of Humorous Or Die, who serves as an government producer of the movie. Muñoz III and the trio behind Luz are growing a number of tasks collectively to be introduced at a later date.
Extra collaborations coming down the pipeline embody work from filmmakers and writers like Kristian Mercado (If You Have been The Final), Francisca Alegria (The Cow Who Sang A Track Into The Future), Ryan Zaragoza (Madres), Melina Leon (Track With out a Title), Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (Clara Sola), Lucia Garibaldi (The Sharks), Lindsey Villarreal (La Maquina), Chelsey Lora (Vida), Eva González Szigriszt (Lady In The E book), Marcella Ochoa (Madres) and Maria Corina Ramirez (Bridges).
Expertise already aligned with the corporate embody Danny Ramirez (Prime Gun: Maverick), Annie Gonzalez (Flamin’ Scorching), Raul Castillo (Cassandro), Mishel Prada (The Continental), Aaron Dominguez (Solely Murders within the Constructing) and Lorenza Izzo (Fletch), to call a couple of.
Luz Movies is aiming to have 3-4 movies in manufacturing by the top of 2024 in numerous languages to assist bridge stronger co-production partnerships between the U.S. and Latin America.
