Michel Franco‘s timely drama “Dreams,” starring Oscar winner Jessica Chastain and celebrated ballet dancer Isaac Hernández, has been bought by Greenwich Entertainment for North American rights. The movie world premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival where it was warmly received.
Greenwich Entertainment will release “Dreams” during the awards season this fall. The film sees Hernandez play a ballet dancer from Mexico who dreams international fame and life in the United States. Believing that his lover (Chastain), a socialite and philanthropist, will support him, he leaves everything behind and narrowly escapes death crossing the border. However, his arrival disrupts her carefully curated world and she will do anything to protect their future together – and the life she has built for herself.
“I’m happy that ‘Dreams’ will be released by Greenwich in North America,” says Franco. “It was a joy to work with Jessica Chastain a second time, and I’m excited for audiences to discover one of her finest performances. I’m also looking forward to American audiences discovering Isaac Hernández.”
Franco says “Dreams” is a “an intimate love story that has a lot to say about Mexican and American relations. I hope people will be moved and also challenged by this film.”
Dreams reteams Franco with Chastain following “Memory” which competed at Venice and won best actor for Peter Sarsgaard.
Franco produced the film with Eréndira Núñez Larios, and Alexander Rodnyansky with executive producers Chastain, Kelly Carmichael, and Vladimir Artemenko.
The deal was negotiated by Greenwich’s Ed Arentz and Andy Bohn with Gersh’s Bart Walker representing the filmmakers.
The Match Factory is selling international rights. Greenwich Entertainment’s slate of releases include Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi’s Oscar-winning “Free Solo,” “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice” from Oscar winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman; “Coup!” starring Peter Sarsgaard and Billy Magnussen; “Close to You” starring Elliot Page; “The Critic” starring Ian McKellen, and Durga Chew-Bose’s “Bonjour Tristesse” starring Lily McInerny, Claes Bang, and Chloë Sevigny. Upcoming releases include Michael Winterbottom’s “Shoshana,” Omaha starring “John Magaro,” and “Islands” starring Sam Riley.
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