The shooting of Mark Wilkins' new film «Hungry Saints» began in New York on June 2nd. After the great success of «Bon Voyage» the director works again with Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, this time for a feature film. The film will be shot until July 9th, not only in the United States, but also in Peru.
The film is a Swiss co-production of Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Schweizer Fernsehen SRF and Teleclub. Additional support comes from the American service producer We Are Films. The project is supported by the Federal Office of Culture and the Zurich Film Foundation.
In this international project, the Peruvian actors Magaly Solier Romero, as well as Adriano and Marcelo Durant Castro star in the leading roles. Swiss Simon Käser and Croatian Tara Thaller will also be in front of the camera.
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With immigration authorities on her heels, an undocumented woman searches for her teenage sons. A murder, a police raid and a photo of a mysterious girl; Raffaella must piece together the boys' secret romantic life in order to find out what happened to them.