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exclusive:Emmy Award nominee Rain Valdez (razor tongue) on Monday announced the launch of Rainbow Entertainment, an equity-focused, transgender-led production company focused on elevating BIPOC and queer storytellers both in front of and behind the camera.
Rainbow Entertainment aims to help create a new Hollywood characterized by accessibility, diversity, and equity, and is currently in the process of raising funds. When Jupiter Returns, Mahal, an indie romantic comedy scheduled to begin production in August. Written, directed, and starring Valdez, the film follows Mahal, an impulsive and unwittingly loving Filipino trans woman who confronts the cosmos in the wake of the sudden death of her sister, but ends up being defeated by a mysterious inventor. It depicts how he meets Arash. When two people fall in love despite cosmic prophecies, Mahal grapples with the question: Do we create our own destinies, or is everything destined in the stars? Is it?
A portion of the proceeds from the release of this picture will launch the Community Film Fund, empowering the next generation of filmmakers to create a treasure trove of untold stories.
As we first reported, Valdez is also preparing. Re-Live: The story of an American cheerleader, a romantic comedy she will direct from a script she wrote with Rachel Leyco. The film follows Rowena, a transgender Hollywood actress, as she makes a triumphant return to her estranged hometown of Guam for an innovative week-long high school reunion. Masu. Hoping to live out her heart's greatest regret, she takes on her mission to become a cheerleader – pom poms and more! But when she arrives, she must face a different kind of reunion with her devout Catholic family.
Jett Tolentino produced the picture, with Rosario Dawson serving as executive producer.
Breakthrough in 2020 with Emmy nomination for short comedy series razor tonguewas also created by her, but Valdez one for the team, a youth television pilot written and produced by Kyle Puccia and Darryl Stevens. The pilot, directed by Valdez, follows a charismatic transmasculine teenager who loses his spot on the women's lacrosse team and joins his new high school's men's team in order to win a scholarship to his dream Ivy League university. will be a challenge. Liesl Wilke and her girlfriend Silas Howard served as his EP.
It has previously been seen on shows such as: LAW & ORDER: Special Victim Response Office, why women kill people and sneaky peteValdez is repped by Rothman/Andres Entertainment and Myman Greenspan Fox.