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‘Roma’ Producer Nicolas Celis, ‘Hurricane Season’s Elisa Miller Prep Gripping Legal Drama About Case That Shocked Nation
'Legitima' is based on a book about the 2013 trial of a rape victim charged with murder after killing one of her attackers in self-defense.
Mexican filmmaker Elisa Miller(“Hurricane Season”) is teaming up with “Roma” producer Nicolás Celis and his Pimienta Films on a legal drama-cum-psychological thriller that the duo is pitching this week at the Venice Production Bridge’s Gap-Financing Market, which runs Aug. 30 – Sept. 1. The film is based on “En legítima defensa,” a book written by Ana Katiria Suárez, the charismatic and unconventional lawyer who took up Rubio’s case, doing battle with Mexico’s corrupt and misogynistic legal system until justice was finally served and the young woman was freed. While “En legítima defensa” is a faithful account of the Rubio trial, Miller said she needed to bring an extra dimension to the script — which she’s co-writing with Samara Ibrahim — in order to present the protagonists of the lawyer’s bare-bones case study as fully developed, “flawed characters” with a “human side.”
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