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Dianna Agron and Paz de la Huerta will star in the drama, which premiered in Tribeca and Myriad Pictures has introduced to international buyers here.

Natalia Leite makes her feature directorial debut on the tale of a bored woman in a rural town who embarks on a risky friendship with a female drifter.

Alexandra Roxo and Natalia Leite produce Bare through Purple Milk with Chad Burris via Indion Entertainment. Giorgio Guglielmino, Dennis Mykytyn, Christopher J Scott and Jasper Zweibel served as executive producers.

“Natalia has a provocative and original voice that is undeniably present in Bare,” said Myriad president and CEO Kirk D’Amico.

“She worked with Dianna Agron and Paz de la Huerta and the rest of the cast to capture performances which draw out an extraordinary range of emotions.”

Director of production and acquisitions Theresa Won brought the project to Myriad, who negotiated rights with Us rights holder CAA.

I first encountered writer, director and producer Natalia Leite in an episode of Vice’s “Every Woman”, where she and (co-star and producer) Alexandra Roxo pose as truck stop strippers and was described as “a Marina Abramovic performance crossed with a bizarro episode of 'Wife Swap' directed by David Lynch's daughters." Natalia’s feature film debut "Bare" will premiere at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. "Bare" explores the curious relationship between small desert townie Sarah (Dianna Agron) and a spontaneous stranger, Pepper (Paz de la Huerta) who introduces the highs of sex, drugs and spirituality into Sarah’s world.

LatinoBuzz: What was the moment a young girl in Sao Paolo named Natalia decided she wanted to pick up a camera?

Natalia: My dad had one of those huge VHS cameras when I was growing up and he would film the family sometimes. It was too big for me to carry but I always wanted to play around with it. Then, when I was around 9 or 10, I started playing with a little point and shoot camera that my family had and I would stage scenarios with my sister and photograph them. I loved it. I loved creating the scene and also being in it sometimes. I think that was the start.

LatinoBuzz: I understand you were in the process of Bare when you came up with the Vice idea. Did any of that factor in ultimately when you shot "Bare"?

Natalia: For sure. I came across the strip club that we used in "Bare" when I was location scouting in New Mexico and thought it was such a unique and cinematic place. I told Alexandra about this place and we started thinking about how those women ended up there and what life is like for those women. From there we developed the idea for “Every Woman,” the Vice show. Through that experience we bonded with some of the women working in the club and ended up casting them in "Bare." It also really inspired my writing and I added some of that personal experience into the script.

LatinoBuzz: What’s the most important part of the writing process for you?

Natalia: It’s the painful part when you already have the full script written and you think it’s great and then you step back for a moment to realize that it’s not ready yet. When you have to go back to the drawing board and look at your outline again and kill all the scenes you love and make a big mess of it all to get it to a better place.

LatinoBuzz: What were the films that you watched and discussed with your team in achieving the aesthetic of the film?

Natalia: So many. Here are a few: "My Own Private Idaho," "Last Picture Show," "Fish Tank," "Harold and Maude," "My Summer of Love," "Xxy"….

LatinoBuzz: What made your two leads stand out for you? Were you at any point looking for parts of yourself in them?

Natalia: They are exaggerated parts of myself. They are polar opposites who come together and change each other.

LatinoBuzz: Is there a song you could write to all day long?

Natalia: No. I listen to a lot of music and never sit on one song for too long.

LatinoBuzz: How does the current state of the world impact your filmmaking voice?

Natalia: Growing up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, I feel like I was more exposed to the reality of the world we live in. Brazil is beautiful with so many amazing people and beautiful nature, but in Sao Paulo you go to work in the morning and there are 7-year-olds knocking on your car door begging for money, there’s corruption, there’s violence. Not to say that this doesn’t happen here in America too – it does – but the Us is better about hiding this reality in a certain way. Growing up in Sao Paulo was really important to my formative years as an artist, and really shaped the way I saw myself as an artist in the world.

Latinobuzz: Your favorite Journey?

Natalia: My favorite journey is just meditating and going inside myself.

Bare screening times can be found here: https://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/bare-2015. And for more info on Natalia’s work visit: http://drinkpurplemilk.com/

Written by Juan Caceres . LatinoBuzz is a feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow [At]LatinoBuzz on Twitter and Facebook...

Natalia Leite has recruited Imogen Poots, Riley Keough and Dianna Agron for the cast of her feature directorial debut, “Bare,” which starts shooting this week in New Mexico. “Bare” centers on “a young girl living in Nevada who starts a complicated relationship with a female drifter who introduces her to a darker world and forces her to grow.” Also set to star Chris Zylka, Paz de la Huerta and Rachel Korine, “Bare” will be produced by Alexandra Roxo, Chad Burris, and Christopher J. Scott. Mateo Frazier will serve as associate producer. Poots, whose busy year has included films like “A [...]

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What's Organic Spray Tanning? Find Out in This Ridiculous Episode of 'Be Here Now-ish' "I'm single now and I feel like ab contouring is not at the top of my priority list." by kate hakala What's 'looking the part' mean when you're trying to be a dating coach? It probably involves more organic spray tanning than it does cat-owning and vintage fur wearing. And what's a pot delivery woman to do when she's fired for a slanderous Yelp review? Such are the plights of Sam and Nina in the ridiculously hilarious fourth episode of Be Here Now-ish. Watch it all unfold in the witty, punchy new comedy web series by independent filmmakers Alexandra Roxo and Natalia Leita. Be Here Now-ish follows the lives of Sam, a dating coach, and Nina, a pot delivery woman, as they work, hook up, and stumble [...]...

Watch the Most Painfully Awkward First Date in This Episode of 'Be Here Now-ish' "I read on the internet that ladies like confident dudes with swagger." "If it'd be okay with you, can I call my mom real quick and put her on speaker?" These are the most distressing words someone can hear on a first date. The second most unwelcome phrase? "Do you like salsa music? You'll be blown away when you hear the bass come out of the sub." In the brilliant third episode of Be Here Now-ish, salsa-blasting subwoofers, orgasmic chanting, face-lifting work-outs, and socially inept men are just a side effect of city living. Watch it all unfold in the hilarious, surprising new comedy web series by independent filmmakers Alexandra Roxo and Natalia Leita. Be Here Now-ish follows the lives of Sam, a dating coach, and Nina, [...]...

Watch Two Women Explore Bathtub Parties in This Hilarious Episode of 'Be Here Now-ish' "Wait, is there any pot in this?" by kate hakala What would you do if left to your own devices inside a new friend's apartment? Perhaps sneak out after a few minutes, maybe riffle through their drawers and inspect their underwear. In the case of Be Here Now-ish, being left alone in a new pad could lead to a completely nude, pot cookie-laced bathtub party with your girlfriend and her new cute friend. We like that third option best. Watch it all unfold in the brilliant new comedy web series by independent filmmakers Alexandra Roxo and Natalia Leita. Be Here Now-ish follows the lives of Sam, a dating coach, and Nina, a pot delivery woman, as they work, hook up, and stumble their way through the men and women of New York [...]...

Watch Some Hilarious Lunch Lady Role Play in 'Be Here Now-ish' "Just put your hand up my skirt." "I'm pretty sure this is a school zone." Failed attempts at role-playing, peeing on the sidewalk, and surviving through the world's most unbearable bachelorette parties are common side effects of living in New York as a twentysomething. We live in a world where we'll shell out for vegan craft beer on a date, but can't make rent. Nothing captures that absurd, hilarious reality quite like Be Here Now-ish, a new comedy by forward-thinking independent filmmakers Alexandra Roxo and Natalia Leita. This quirky and witty web series tells the story of two sexually open young women, Sam and Nina, who meet at a party and decide to escape their chaotic New York lives for zenned-out Los Angeles. Be Here Now-ish features the talents of [...]...

Tribeca N.O.W. is a new initiative that recognizes creators of new online work (N.O.W.) aiming to discover, highlight, and celebrate the next generation of storytellers who choose to create and share their work in the online space. Tribeca Film Festival Programmer, Cara Cusumano, sat down with several artists/online pioneers as part of a series of talks hosted at the Apple Store in SoHo.  Members of the panel included Rob Michael Hugel, creator and star of "I Hate Being Single," Ben Sinclair & Katja Blichfeld, creators of "High Maintenance," and Natalia Leite & Alexandra Roxo of "Be Here Nowish." Cusumano asked the creators where they wanted their work to develop. The answers revealed a similar theme. Television is the light at the end of the tunnel. Leite said, "I mean we would love to take our show to television. I think that would be a dream for us.

More often than not, filmmakers undertake the odd job to get by — not unlike, as Natalia Leite and Alexandra Roxo argue in their Vice series Every Woman, the storied “second sex.” “We started thinking about the most stigmatized, mysterious and hardest jobs women do,” Roxo narrates in the opening sequence. And so, the Brooklyn filmmaking team trekked across the country to slip inside the well-worn shoes (lucite heels) of a truckstop stripper, as captured in the New Mexico-set pilot of Every Woman. Filmmaker spoke with Leite and Roxo about the series, the dangers of overstepping exploitative bounds and the foibles of simultaneously acting […]...

More often than not, filmmakers undertake the odd job to get by — not unlike, as Natalia Leite and Alexandra Roxo argue in their Vice series Every Woman, the storied “second sex.” “We started thinking about the most stigmatized, mysterious and hardest jobs women do,” Roxo narrates in the opening sequence. And so, the Brooklyn filmmaking team trekked across the country to slip inside the well-worn shoes (lucite heels) of a truckstop stripper, as captured in the New Mexico-set pilot of Every Woman. Filmmaker spoke with Leite and Roxo about the series, the dangers of overstepping exploitative bounds and the foibles of simultaneously acting […]...

QFest continues today in St. Louis. QFest, the annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is celebrating it’s fifth year with a terrific line-up of films spotlighting Gay and Lesbian filmmakers and themes. QFest is a Cinema St. Louis event and this year is presented by Tla Releasing, a Us film distribution company whose primary output is Lgbt-related films from all over the world. All films will be shown at the Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar Blvd. in the University City Loop district). Individual tickets are $12 general admission or $10 for students and Cinema St. Louis members with valid and current photo IDs. Advance tickets are available through the Tivoli Theatre box office or online at Landmark Theatres’ web site

Here’s the line-up for the QFest films playing today and tonight:

Monday, April 23rd at 5:00pm:

Mary Marie – (U.S., 2010, 80 min.) Directed by Alexandra Roxo

In the wake of their mother.s death,...

QFest, the annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is celebrating it’s fifth year with a terrific line-up of films spotlighting Gay and Lesbian filmmakers and themes. QFest is a Cinema St. Louis event and this year is presented by Tla Releasing, a Us film distribution company whose primary output is Lgbt-related films from all over the world.

QFest begins this Sunday, April 22nd and runs through Thursday, April 26, 2012, at the Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar Blvd. in the University City Loop district). QFest uses the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the diversity and inherent complexities of living an alternative lifestyle in today’s society. This year’s event features an eclectic slate of contemporary Lgbtq-themed feature films, documentaries, and shorts.

Here’s the line-up for this year’s QFest:

Sunday, April 22nd at 1:30pm.

Cloudburst- (Canada, 2011, 93 min.) Directed Thom Fitzgerald

In this moving comedy, Oscar®-winning actresses...

Updated through 6/10.

Colin Beckett: "Whether by design or circumstance, this June has become Thai Cinema Month in New York, with an array of the city's art houses and museums boasting otherwise hard-to-see gems from the Thai film renaissance that began in the late 1990s. But the biggest cause for celebration is the belated arrival of two films by Uruphong Raksasad — Agrarian Utopia (2009), running at Anthology Film Archives June 10 - 15, and Stories from the North (2006), which plays Museum of the Moving Image on June 5 [this afternoon at 3] — whose formal ingenuity and geopolitical urgency make the familiar generalizations about national cinemas seem quaint, if not willfully narrow."

Updates, 6/10: For Michael Joshua Rowin, writing for Artforum, "here is an undeniably stunning work of visual art, a premiere example of the equal footing hi-def digital video now holds with celluloid filmmaking. Acting as his own cinematographer, Uruphong finds intimate wonder in lush, verdant hills; in twilights...

In the beginning of the film, Mary (Alana Kearns-Green) and Marie (Alexandra Roxo) spend the night at the grandpa's house at the wake of their mother's passing. Mary insists on sleeping in the same bed with the old man. This sweet, innocent gesture sets the tone of Mary Marie, an erotically charged yet gentle 'growing up' film by writer/director/star Roxo. The two girls resume their lives in a suspended state of childhood in a big house filled with the family artifacts and memories. They take baths together, sleep in the same bed, and play dress-up. This fragile, temporary/eternal tranquility is disturbed as Peter (Tim Linden), a local handyman hired to take care of the house, enters the picture. After initial flirting, Peter and Marie...