EXCLUSIVE: Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn, the administrators behind the Sundance-bound characteristic documentary Going Varsity in Mariachi, have signed with WME.
The movie marking Vasquez’s characteristic directorial debut and Osborn’s sophomore characteristic effort makes its world premiere in U.S. Documentary Competitors on January 22. It’s set within the aggressive world of highschool mariachi, the place the musicians from the South Texas borderlands reign supreme. Underneath the steerage of Coach Abel Acuña, the teenage captains of Edinburg North Excessive Faculty’s acclaimed crew should flip a shoestring price range and numerous crew of inexperienced musicians into state champions.
Pic is produced by James Lawler and Julia Pontecorvo of Osmosis Movies and Luis A. Miranda, Jr. for Embeleco Limitless. Impression Companions and Embeleco Limitless co-financed with Fifth Season, which can also be dealing with worldwide gross sales.
Vasquez is a Mexican-American director and producer raised in rural Texas who, with Osborn, directed the brief Folks Frontera, which was awarded the Jury Prize for Texas Quick Movie at SXSW 2022 and premiered on PBS’ The Latino Expertise. She additionally helmed the brief When It’s Good, It’s Good, co-produced with Latino Public Broadcasting. The up-and-comer lower her enamel on the manufacturing facet as a part of the groups behind the award-winning options Matangi/Maya/M.IA. (2018) and Us Youngsters (2020) and is ready to co-produce an upcoming characteristic from Sundance and SXSW prize winner Nanfu Wang.
Osborn’s debut characteristic doc, Universe, was awarded Greatest Music Documentary by the Worldwide Documentary Affiliation in 2020. Along with Folks Frontera, the filmmaker of Mexican-American descent has helmed brief works together with Varsity Oro for Pop-Up Journal, Evening Shift and Consuming for Subject, and Language Keepers, a hybrid documentary undertaking meant to assist maintain the endangered Athabaskan language of Gwich’in, which premiered on the Smithsonian Nationwide Museum of the American Indian.
Vasquez and Osborn proceed to be represented by lawyer Jackie Eckhouse at Sloss Eckhouse LawCo.
