Casi El Paraíso (Almost Paradise)
TFI Suppport
TFI Latin America Fund 2016 In Partnership with the Los Cabos Film Festival
Logline
Set in the 1950s, an Italian con-man travels to Mexico City posing as a Prince to exploit the elite's fascination with European Nobility. They do anything he wants - from paying his daily expenses, to handing over their daughters’ hands in marriage.
Gaz Alazraki
DIRECTOR
Writer and director of Mexico’s record breaking comedy, (The Noble Family) (With a Rotten Tomatoes Score of 85%) and the Co-Creator, Executive Producer and Director of Club de Cuervos -Netflix’s first original series in Spanish.
Edgar San Juan
SCREENWRITER, PRODUCER
He has produced (The Maid) by Sebastián Silva (Chile-Mex 2009, Sundance: Best Foreign Film, Best Foreign Actress; Golden Globe Nominee). He wrote and produced Norteado (Mex-Spain, 2010; Awarded at San Sebastián, Rotterdam, Thesalonikki, Fribourg) and Chalán (Gofer, 2012; First Mexican Film Premiered in Streaming); and coproduced (Col-Mex-Fr, 2012; Premiered at La Quinzaine)
Leonardo Zimbrón
PRODUCER
Partner and founder of Alazraki Entertainment. For several years he served as Director of Local Production for Warner Bros. Pictures. He has produced several Spanish language films such as (Under the Salt, Mario Muñoz, 2008), the first record breaking Eugenio Derbez’s film No eres tu soy yo (It’s not you, it’s me, Alejandro Springall 2010), and the all time all record breaking phenomenon Nosotros los Nobles (The Noble Family, Gary Alazraki, 2013), released by Warner Bros in March 2013, breaking every single all-time record for a Mexican Film.