Italy-based IuviT Media Sales has picked up international sales rights at EFM for Aidan Quinn drama Spiked about the injustices that immigrant workers experience along the US-Mexico border
Screen has obtained an exclusive first-look from the film about a newspaper publisher fighting for justice for the family of a worker killed in a border town. Facing obstacles at every turn including unhelpful law enforcement, the publisher is beset by a sudden illness as issues with his wife bubble up at home.
Deirdre Lovejoy plays the local head of police and Wendy Makkena is the newspaperman’s wife. Rounding out the key cast are Carlos Gomez, Danay Garcia, Lovensky Jean-Baptiste, Walter Belenky, Sal Lopez and Christopher Rich.
Gravitas Ventures handled the North American release on the film, which shot in Arizona. Juan Martinez Vera made his feature directing debut and producers are Per Melita, whose credits include Roger Dodger, and Vera. Joe Soldwedel and Brett Soldwedel served as executive producers.
Vera was born in the rural town of Tacubaya in the Mexican state of Guanajuaon and moved to the United States with his family when he was 11. After graduating UCLA and USC School of Cinematic Arts he received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant to write and direct his short film Spark, which earned a U.S. Student BAFTA Award nomination in 2016.
Max Czertok, head of sales and acquisitions at IuviT, oversees sales at the EFM.
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