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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

    [email protected]

    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