Maya takes int'l privileges to 'Mosquito y Mari'

Maya Worldwide, the sales and distribution arm of L.A.-based indie Maya Entertainment founded by executive co-chair Moctesuma Esparza, has snagged worldwide privileges to Sundance Next Film selection, "Bug y Mari," the debut pic of Aurora Guerrero. Guerrero is really a former Sundance Institute /Ford Foundation Film Fellow and it has been lately named a period Warner Fellow. Guerrero's coming-of-age tale is all about two 15-years old Latina women visiting grips using the sexual undercurrent within their budding friendship. Pic is really a coproduction between Chad Burris' Indion Entertainment and Maya Intl. Maya Intl. will manage foreign sales as the Film Collaborative will handle domestic sales for Maya at Sundance. Pic continues to be recognized in to the Sundance Chooses selection at Berlin's European Film Market which Maya Intl. prexy Elias Axume will even attend."Mosquita y Mari" was lately granted this year's SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grant as well as an LG Cinema three dimensional Fellowship. Maya Intl. is selling privileges to photos including Indion Entertainment's "Ass Backwards," starring Alicia Silverstone "It is a Disaster," toplined by Julia Stiles and America Ferrara "Coffee shop," starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy and "Without Males," brought by Avoi Longoria Parker, Christian Slater and Oscar Nunez. Axume may also be searching to get worldwide privileges to new game titles at Sundance. Parent company Maya Entertainment Group, Corporation. is really a multi-platform content/distribution company which has built a library in excess of 100 game titles targeted in the "new mainstream" of yankee Latino in addition to global auds. Brought by Esparza, whose credits include "Selena," and HBO's "Walkout," and prexy Shaun Valdez (founding father of SiTV, now nuvoTV)), Maya continues to be growing its achieve via changing distribution technologies. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com