Original title: Mayra Hermosillo’s ‘Vanilla’ Explores Family and Identity in an All-Female Household (Exclusive Venice Trailer)
Mexico in the late 1980s. The eight-year-old Roberta watches her family of seven women fight to save their home from mounting debt. It is a struggle that will reshape how she sees herself and those around her. This is the premise of Vanilla (Vainilla), the feature directorial debut by writer-director Mayra Hermosillo, an actress you may know from Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico or Amat Escalante’s Lost in the Night. World premiering on Wednesday, Sept. 3, in the Giornate degli Autori, or Venice Days, lineup, a sidebar of the Venice International Film Festival, the ensemble cast includes Aurora Dávila, María Castellá, Natalia Plascencia, Paloma Petra, Rosy Rojas, Fernanda Baca, and Lola Ochoa. The cinematography is courtesy of Jessica Villamil, with Sonia Sánchez Carrasco handling editing. The producers are Stacy Perskie (Bardo, Spectre), Karla Luna Cantú, Andrea Porras Madero, and Paloma Petra. Bendita Film Sales is handling world sales. Based on personal experiences and set in a non-traditio