Veteran director Luis Mandoki is set to helm Tesoro (Treasure), the story of a Mexican immigrant who puts her life on the line to save her ailing father back home.
Set to shoot this summer, Tesoro centers on a Mexican waitress who risks everything to cross the Mexico-u.S. border so that she can earn money to pay for a life-saving operation for her father, but her return journey is thwarted by a deadly crime family.
Producer and writer Sandy Baumann, who participated in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, penned the script based on her own father's near-death experience. Her shingle DreamCity...
Set to shoot this summer, Tesoro centers on a Mexican waitress who risks everything to cross the Mexico-u.S. border so that she can earn money to pay for a life-saving operation for her father, but her return journey is thwarted by a deadly crime family.
Producer and writer Sandy Baumann, who participated in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, penned the script based on her own father's near-death experience. Her shingle DreamCity...
- 4/11/2017
- by John Hecht
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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