Mía Maestro, Quincy Isaiah and Jeff Kober Set for Marijuana Incarceration Drama, Paradigm to Launch Sales in Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAngelique Jackson “Beneath the Grass,” a drama about the criminal justice system and marijuana incarceration rates, will hit the market at the Cannes Film Festival next week.
Mía Maestro, Quincy Isaiah and Jeff Kober will lead the film, which begins production next month in New Jersey. Paradigm is representing worldwide sales for the film. “Beneath the Grass” is set in 2008, capturing both the economic recession and the “Yes We Can” summer, and follows a single Latina mother whose illegal marijuana business is jeopardized when her young son befriends the new neighbors, a young white boy and his police officer grandfather.
According to production research, in 2008, Latino people were four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people, while Black people were seven times more likely.
Despite marijuana legalization in several states in the years since, the research explains, arrest rates have risen with racial disparities still prevalent.
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