International Courant
EXCLUSIVE: Actress Cara Santana (Daughter of the Bride) will make her directorial debut with The Shuffle, a documentary on the corruption of the drug therapy business, which she’s producing alongside Andrew Renzi’s North of Now.
Developed during the last two years, The Shuffle follows a $43Ba-year con that is proliferated within the US by means of the brokering and trafficking of susceptible folks in restoration by profiting off of their insurance coverage. The movie is alleged to go to the guts of why America has the most important drug epidemic within the Western world — the revenue is within the therapy, not the remedy.
“Sober for 20 years, I began noticing the disturbing pattern of affected person brokering within the rehabilitation business which was ripe for insurance coverage fraud, however what I uncovered was an enormous $43B a 12 months con,” Santana informed Deadline. “After creating the story for over 2 years, I discovered my companion in Andrew Renzi’s North of Now. I used to be an enormous fan of his work and I knew he could be the proper companion to inform the story with.”
Pre-production begins in August, though among the movie has already been shot because of Santana self-financing a portion of the event supplies in South Florida final 12 months which has been used to safe financing.
An actress, activist and director, Santana was most just lately seen starring reverse Marcia Homosexual Harden and Halston Sage within the movie Daughter of the Bride from MarVista Leisure. Beforehand, she’s additionally been seen in CBS’s The Neighborhood, Starz’s Vida, Fox’s Salem, Netflix’s Santa Clarita Food regimen and Fb Watch’s The Actual Bros of Simi Valley, together with a lot of indies.
Along with The Shuffle, Santana’s behind-the-camera work contains the upcoming function Steps, which she wrote and is working to develop. Pic relies on true occasions that depict the intertwined lives of six folks fighting dependancy and their journey to restoration over three many years. Additionally producing and creating a darkish comedy sequence that dives into the world of Instagram-based prostitution, the actor-filmmaker is repped by CAA, 11:11 Leisure, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
