‘Bionico’s Bachata’ SXSW Audience Award-Winning Duo Heads to Locarno’s Match Me! With Next Project, ‘The Baker’ (Exclusive)
Dominican producer Cristian Mojica and filmmaker Yoel Morales will pull double duty at this year’s Locarno, where their SXSW Audience Award-winning film “Bionico’s Bachata” will screen in the Open Doors section and their next project, “The Baker,” will participate in the Match Me! forum.
Mojica and Morales produce through their label Mentes Fritas Film Production, which is currently in development on the project and has plans to shoot in late 2025.
The 1925-set film turns on Marco, who immigrates from the Dominican Republic to inherit his uncle’s bakery in Italy, unaware that he will face intense internal conflicts and rivalries with neighboring businesses of a century-long war. His ascension gets complicated with violent crimes and unexpected alliances as he strives to revive the bakery’s legacy.
According to Morales,”‘ The Baker’ is a wild film about a Dominican baker who will have to face the horror of the...
Mojica and Morales produce through their label Mentes Fritas Film Production, which is currently in development on the project and has plans to shoot in late 2025.
The 1925-set film turns on Marco, who immigrates from the Dominican Republic to inherit his uncle’s bakery in Italy, unaware that he will face intense internal conflicts and rivalries with neighboring businesses of a century-long war. His ascension gets complicated with violent crimes and unexpected alliances as he strives to revive the bakery’s legacy.
According to Morales,”‘ The Baker’ is a wild film about a Dominican baker who will have to face the horror of the...
- 7/24/2024
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety - Film News
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