Oscilloscope Laboratories Picks Up U.S. Rights to Case’s “The Second Mother”

Regina Casé’s mother a movie is heading stateside…

Oscilloscope Laboratories as picked up the U.S. distribution rights to The Second Mother, a Brazilian drama starring the 60-year-old Brazilian actress, comedian, television host and director.

Regina Casé in The Second Mother

The film won a Special Jury Award for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival last month.

Casé and Camila Mardila star in the story of a wealthy family’s live-in housekeeper whose confident and ambitious estranged daughter shows up and throws the entire household into chaos as she refuses to accept the upstairs/downstairs dynamic.

The film is set to play in the Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale, this month.