UTA Signs ‘Yellow Rose’ Filmmaker Diane Paragas
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed filmmaker Diane Paragas for worldwide illustration in all areas.
Most just lately, Paragas directed, wrote and produced her narrative characteristic debut, Yellow Rose. The musical drama was acquired by Sony Photos Worldwide Acquisitions and will probably be launched by SPWA’s movie manufacturing label Stage 6 later in 2020.
The movie premiered on the 2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Movie Pageant, the place it received the grand jury award for finest narrative characteristic. Since then, it has received a number of grand jury and viewers awards at North American movie festivals.
The characteristic focuses on the trials and tribulations of a 17 yr previous Filipina woman who longs to be a rustic singer whereas dealing with the specter of deportation. Paragas additionally co-wrote among the songs within the movie.
Paragas received a 2020 Inventive Capital Award for her upcoming movie The Three Lives Of David Wong, an experimental documentary a few wrongfully accused Chinese language restaurant employee informed by live-action puppetry.
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Earlier this yr, Geena Davis’ Bentonville Movie Basis, a nonprofit group targeted on selling underrepresented voices of various storytellers, chosen Paragas as an inaugural fellow for its growth program. She can also be the founding father of Brooklyn-based Civilian Studios, a industrial and documentary manufacturing firm.
She continues to be managed by LBI Leisure and represented by Morris Yorn Barnes Levine Krintzman Rubenstein Kohner & Gellman.
