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1091 Acquires Rights to Liana Ramirez’s Supernatural Horror Thriller “Star Light”

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Liana Ramirez’s light will shine bright on the internet…

1091 has secured all rights to Star Light, a young adult supernatural horror thriller starring the 21-year-old Latina actress.

Liana Ramirez in Star Light

Directed by Mitchell Altieriand Lee Cummings, the film will be available on digital and on-demand August 4.

The plot, co-written by Altieri, Jamal M. Jennings, and Adam Weiss, involves a kind-hearted teenager, Dylan, who crashes into a beautiful young woman while skateboarding. She turns out to be a world famous pop star on the run from her handlers. While he and his group of friends try to help this mysterious woman, unexplained events begin to occur within the home. When Bebe’s threatening handler, Anton, shows up demanding her return, the teenagers’ refusal makes him unleash a barrage of dire and otherworldly consequences that turns a fun graduation party into a night of living hell.

Star Light

In addition to Ramirez, the film also stars Scout Taylor-Compton, Cameron Johnson, Rahart Adams and Tiffany Shepis. 

“Lee Cummings and I made a film that we think delivers scares and a fun ride, with a talented, young cast. We are thrilled that 1091 will be bringing Star Lightto a wide audience,” said Altieri.

“Star Lightis a highly entertaining thriller of a film featuring an exciting, fresh young cast and a solid track record of inventive horror courtesy of Mitchell Altieri. We look forward to audiences around the world discovering the film,” said Lev Avery-Peckat 1091.

Ramirez is best known for her role as Roxy in Power Rangers: Beast Morphers. 

CNN to Air Acclaimed Linda Ronstadt Documentary on New Year’s Day

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Linda Ronstadt’s inspiring story is headed to the screen…

CNN Films has acquired the documentary feature about the 73-year-old Mexican American singer, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, and it has set the film’s television premiere for New Year’s Day on CNN.

Linda Ronstadt

Ronstadt was 21 when she first hit the national charts with the Stone Poneys’ “Different Drum,” and her plaintive vocal leapt off the radio from the opening line. By the mid-’70s, she was cranking out smash singles and multiplatinum albums as fast as the public could consume them. Three of her LPs hit No. 1 en route to her becoming the most successful female singer of the decade. 

Ronstadt is a 10-time Grammy winner, and has earned a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by The Latin Recording Academy and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by The Recording Academy. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Famein 2014.

Two-time Oscar winner Rob Epstein and Oscar nominee Jeffrey Friedman directed the documentray from Greenwich Entertainment, 1091and CNN Films. 

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice premieres at 9:00 pm on Wednesday, January 1.

1091 & Obscured Pictures to Release Andrea Suárez Paz’s “Sister Aimee” in September

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Andrea Suárez Pazis ready for her Sister act…

1091 (formerly known as The Orchard Film Group) and Obscured Pictures has acquired Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann’s Sister Aimee, starring the Mexican film and theater actress.

Andrea Suárez Paz

The film, which had its premiere in the NEXT section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, will now hit theaters on September 27 at the Village East Cinema in New York and the Laemmle Glendale in Los Angeles ahead of a further rollout and a VOD bow on October 1.

The film, written and directed by Buck and Schlingmann, tells the mostly fictional story of the real-life early 20th century mega-star evangelist Sister Aimee Semple McPherson (played by Anna Margaret Hollyman), with the movie’s plot revolving around the media sensation faking her own death at the pinnacle of her fame to run away to Mexico with her married lover. In real life, the Foursquare Church founder was allegedly kidnapped and held captive for more than a month, but the actual facts of the case were never fully uncovered and no charges were filed.

In addition to Suárez Paz and Hollyman, the film also stars Michael Mosley, Julie White, Amy Hargreaves, Blake DeLong, John Merriman, Lee Eddy, Macon Blair, Bill Wise, Nathan Zellner and Luis Bordonada.

“1091 couldn’t be more delighted to be partnering with the insanely talented filmmaking duo, Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann, to get Sister Aimee out into the world,” said Danielle
Digiacomo, 1091’s SVP Acquisitions and Strategic Partnerships. “It is a film that, like the best of them, defies all definition – – genre-bending, hilarious, moving, layered, and simply unforgettable. We are so excited to bring the film to audiences and cannot wait for them to be
gobsmacked by such a unique vision.”