Felipe Vargas’s directorial debut, Rosario, began making the rounds at EFM last week with a first look available above. The photo features actress Emeraude Toubia (Freeform’s hit TV series “Shadowhunters,” Amazon’s “With Love”) who leads the film from a script by Alan Trezza (We Summon the Darkness, Joe Dante’s Burying the Ex).
Rosario (Emeraude Toubia), a successful stockbroker on Wall Street, is forced to spend the night with the body of her estranged grandmother Griselda who has abruptly died. While waiting for the ambulance and her father Oscar (José Zúñiga) to arrive, a heavy snowstorm locks her inside Griselda’s apartment, surrounded by unfriendly neighbors including the watchful Joe (David Dastmalchian). As the night endlessly stretches on, twisted and menacing supernatural forces that have possessed Griselda’s corpse begin their assault on Rosario. Now the target of a deadly family curse that spans generations, Rosario must battle everything she knows about her past to save herself and her soul in a desperate attempt to break the evil.
Also starring are Diana Lein (AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead”), Emilia Faucher (Coda) and Paul Ben-Victor (The Irishman).
Rosario is currently in post-production. Silk Mass’ Jon Silk is producing alongside Mucho Mas’ Javier Chapa and Phillip Braun.
Highland Film Group is repping world sales.