Plan B Launches New Micro Budget Film Finance Initiative Led By Caddy Vanasirikul; First Pic Is Fernando Eimbcke’s ‘Olmo’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Plan B Entertainment has started a new micro budget film finance initiative to produce and finance lower cost films which will be led by newly hired Caddy Vanasirikul.
The veteran film producer and acquisition and production executive will manage Plan B’s forthcoming slate in this sector. The first film under this new initiative is Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke’s Olmo, which recently completed shooting in New Mexico under an interim agreement.
Co-written with Vanesa Garnica and directed by Eimbcke, and produced with Erendira Nunez LariosEréndira Núñez Larios and Michel Franco’s Teorema, the bilingual story is about 14 year-old Olmo, who must take care of his bedridden father who has Multiple Sclerosis.
But when Olmo’s goddess neighbor Nina Sandoval invites him to a party, his world is turned upside down. Eimbcke’s feature directorial debut Temporada de patos (Duck Season) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Ariel Award for Best Film, and his follow-up film Lake Tahoe won multiple prizes at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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