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SUPERMODEL, BEAUTY QUEEN, DRUG LORDAngelina Sanselmente Valencia endured a brutal upbringing
amongst the squalid slums of Bogota.
She had first hand knowledge of life in the murder capital of the world –
her father and brother were gunned down in front of her.
Escape from the Bogota cesspit would have been unthinkable if it hadn’t been
for one thing – her stunning beauty. She was plucked from obscurity to
win Columbia’s coveted National Coffee Queen beauty pageant in 2000.
Her fame attracted the attention of the outwardly charming Franco
(known to associates and enemies as ‘El Carnicero’ (the Butcher).
The head of the feared Mexican Delta drug cartel fast-tracked Angelina
to become his trophy wife and she found herself at the epi-centre
of a world of murder, narcotics and brutality.
But not only did she manage escape – she ended up utilising her
new found knowledge of the cocaine smuggling industry to set up a
rival cartel and go to war with her husband.
Angelina’s world is very different from that of the Mexican Delta.
She only recruits female models as her drug mules and within months she’s
heading up an operation that is the biggest and most feared drug
smuggling cartel in all South America.
But the narco queen’s world starts to unravel after one of her Gucci-drenched
employees is caught trying to smuggle a massive haul of cocaine into
Argentina. Angelina and her son go on the run with both her ex-husband
and the authorities on their tail.
Enduring constant attempts on their lives, she ends up going under the cosmetic
surgeon’s knife in a last ditch attempt to change her appearance and survive.
Inspired by the real life events, Angelina the Queen of Coffee is her story.
THE QUEEN OF COFFEE ANGELINA
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Executive Producer, James Anderson, acid tested the film concept bywriting a one page synopsis based on Angelina’s extraordinary life and
sent it to ten film agents in the UK.To his delight six agents out of the ten requested to see a script.From this point James knew the concept was strong and worth
developing into a full script.
He followed this by embarking on a social mediacampaign to showcase the potential audience for the film.
James did this by engaging with film forums recommended byCreative England, and creating a micro budget promo trailer
which he put on YouTube .
The project has had an impressive Socialmedia following with 58,000
twitter followers and 47,000 trailer views.
RESEARCH &DEVELOPMENT
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ANGELINABorn into the crime
ridden favelas of Bogotá,Angelina has a core of
steel; yet she can
appear almost childlike
– an ethereal naïve who
seems to ride the tide of
crime and violence with
unlikely ease. Her extraordinary beauty made this
passage through mean-streets hell both easier and
harder: men mostly did her bidding as commandedby her beauty and elemental sexuality; yet this made
her the target of unwelcome attention that she had
to learn to resist. Paradoxically her beauty – and the
murder of her father and brother at a tender age - led
to her growing up feeling very alone.
Angelina is mentally scarred by witnessing her father
and brother’s murders. And confused. And vengeful.
And paranoid. She is an angel with a devil inside her.
As a child she dreamed of escaping the slums she
trusted to protect her with their deeply ingrained
sense of extended family and loyalty. Winning a
beauty pageant and becoming the face of the
Columbia’s coveted Queen of Café campaign as a
teenager makes her dreams to come true. It also
brings her to the attention of the charming Franco, aka
El Carnicero (the butcher): head of the feared Delta
cartel. Her dream turns into a nightmare when she
becomes Franco’s trophy wife. But Angelina is no
one’s trophy wife.
She is a free spirit.
The resolve earnt in
the favelas as a child
comes to her rescue.
Her desire for revenge
eventually finds
fulfilment.
The devil in her is
finally set free,leaving a scarred
angel behind.
FRANCO
(EL CARNCERO) The older of two siblings, Franco was born into apack-dog, mafia existence. He was expected to carry
on the family business: crime. Losing his father to an
assassin hired by a rival cartel at the age of ten felt
like a blessing.
His father was a tyrant, but he was a loving tyrant.
Franco grew up with tough love – and regular
beatings. The loss of his father freed Franco from
brutal punishment; but it left him with a mother,
Violetta, who was psychotically incapable of love.
The loss of his brother Mateo amplified his sense
of isolation.
Like Angelina but for different reasons, Franco is a
man seeking to fill an emotional void. Unlike Angelina,
he has no idea how to do it – or how to love. Crime
has never been crime to Franco: it’s just business;
and business is something he uses to stop the ache
within. Vastly more successful than his father, he
believes that the more he dominates, the moresuccessful he will be, and the less he will feel the ache.
Cruelty is his way of dominating. Practise rather than
psychosis has removed his capacity for empathy.
But the more he tortures, the more he loathes himself;
so the more he tortures . . . And then redemption
arrives in the form of Angelina. He wants to but he
has no idea how to love her. So he treats her like a
possession. There is a little boy lost somewhere
beneath all the dead bodies and the screams.Only death will find him.
MAIN CHARACTERS
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JULIAN BERAUDAn only child, Julian was brought up in Fresnoy-le-
Grand by nice middle class parents who were both nice
teachers at the nice primary school he attended.
Julian soon learnt to be embarrassed by them, himself,
his life, their lifestyle, and affluence generally.
A flirtation with rebellion became a full blown Trotsky
worshipping, drug fuelled drop out bender for the
teenage Julian. A career of sorts followed in
architecture; but designing buildings wasn’t for him.
There was no trauma that prompted him to choose a
career in Interpol as a way to ‘make a difference.’ It wassheer boredom. But as innate intelligence propelled him
up through the ranks, the boredom got worse.
Boredom tainted an attempt at marriage, which soon
ended in . . . mediocrity. Picking up Franco’s trial has
become a way for Julian to prove to himself that he isn’t
as average as society seems to be telling him he is.
And Angelina?
She quickly becomes Julian’s fantasy and challenge –
and the possibility of a new rebellion against a socio-political system he has long since learnt to accept, but
never quite tolerate . . .
VIOLETTAVioletta’s psychosis remained undiagnosed throughout
childhood and early adulthood. It manifested as
extreme obsessive compulsive behaviour in her
twenties. It feasted on the tyranny of the man she
married – Franco’s late father. Her husband’s murder
and the trauma of the bullet wounds she sustained
during his assassination seemed to calm her – to
sanitise her. She now dedicated her life to her beloved
boys Franco and Mateo. And then Mateo was
murdered too. Violetta now focussed all her ‘love’
on her surviving son Franco, destabilising him inthe process and fomenting his sadism.
Violetta has never had a career, and has thus never
enjoyed any kind of peer validation. She has therefore
always lacked any self-worth at all. As for the Mafioso
lifestyle of her family, it’s too long since she knew
anything else. Her evangelical upbringing in a convent
where she was taken by parents uninterested in her
seems like a long lost golden age to her.
A dream of a dream.A lie.
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Our pre-production team has chosen Puerto Rico as the ideal location to shoot the feature.
The island offers a US backed economy and massive 60% tax breaks.
Aesthetically Puerto Rico offers the perfect landscape for the look of the film we are trying to
create with its location being used recently to shoot a Columbian gangster feature film.
LOCATION-PUERTO RICO
BUDGET -6 MILLION US DOLLARS
Filming of recent feature ‘The Rum Diary’ on the island
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DIRECTORREBECCA JOHNSON made her feature-film debut with “Honeytrap” after a string ofshort-film successes, including the award-winning “Top Girl,” which played at more
than 30 festivals internationally, including Berlin, Rotterdam and Los Angeles,and secured several awards before being picked up by Canal+.She is a Screen International Star of Tomorrow. “Honeytrap” premiered at theBFI London Film Festival where Johnson was duly nominated for the Best BritishNewcomer award. Now Johnson is setting her sights further afield.And when the script for ‘Angelina’ queen of café came along she knew this was the
right film for her in which she would be able to passionately tell the epic story of aremarkable woman, a true underdog who defied the odds to not only survive in the brutal male drivenunforgiving world of drug cartels but thrive. The fact this film is based on true events grabs me even more.
WRITERNICK GREEN is a professional film screenwriter and film script consultant. He’s written nearly 40commissioned feature films. As the main writer on the project he was commissioned by James Anderson tohelp develop the script. Nick was really excited to work on the project due to the concept being so strong andthe fact it was so different from anything he’d ever worked on.
PRODUCEREMILY CORCORAN is a New Zealand born producer known for Confine (2013),Sisterhood (2008) and The Fight Room (2014). She was the winner of the coveted H.Club100 top ten most influential people in film in 2013 by The Guardian newspaper.In terms of the project Emily is a real asset and brings to the table a lot of experienceand drive. In regards to the film Emily has completed the calculation of the productionbudget and identified Puerto Rico as the best location for the feature.She has also lined up a financial production partner Pimentia Film in Puerto Ricoand a UK based film distributor Vertigo Film.
Finally, in terms of casting Emily has strong links to two possible leads to play the role of Angelina.
LINE PRODUCERROB SPERANZA is an American film producer and line producer from Brooklyn,New York, based in Sheffield. In 2015, Rob produced feature film Arthur and Merlin
(wr/dir. Marco van Belle), currently on release with Carnaby International. He is alsoco-producer of feature horror film ‘Entity’ with wr/dir/prod Steve Stone, starring Dervla
Kirwan and Charlotte Riley, on release with Metrodome Entertainment/Arclight andFangoria/Brainstorm in the USA. In 2011, Rob line produced festival horror hit ‘Inbred’(dir. Alex Chandon – www.inbredmovie.com) starring Jo Hartley and on internationalrelease with Anchor Bay and Arclight, and Liverpool feature ‘Small Creatures’ (wr/dirMartin Wallace), nominated in 2012 for the Michael Powell Award for Best Film and Best
Performance at the Edinburgh IFF. Rob runs the South Yorkshire Filmmakers Network (www.syfn.org) and hasdone so since 2004. He has made over 200 shorts, documentaries and informational films since 2006. His latestproject, ‘The Story of Stagger Lee’, slated for development in 2016, would be his first feature documentary.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER /WRITERJames Anderson is a former radio journalist and more recently a business entrepreneur owning a litigation
company. His other passion is script writing. He owns all rights to the feature ‘Angelina Queen of Café’. Jameshas shown his commitment and passion to the project by self-financing the film for the last 12 months. He wasalso the main driver in marketing the film and creating the films highly impressive social media following whichin turn attracted Emily Corcoran and Nick Green to the project both revered professionals in the film industry.
THE TEAM
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CONTACT
James Anderson - 0044 7891106676
“ ONE OF THE BEST TREATMENTS I’VE READ.
IT’S A STORY CRYING OUT
TO BE MADE INTO A FILM.”
Michael Glover, The Independent
“ AMAZING CONCEPT, AMAZING STORY
ALL BASED ON TRUE EVENTS...
A TRULY REMARKABLE WOMAN.”
Lee Ford, BBC film reviewer