Cabaldana Alchemy and Pushed Equation are teaming to develop the function model of Miguel Angel Caballero’s a number of award-winning brief movie “The Ballad of Tita and the Machines.” The venture has been chosen as a part of the Frontières Worldwide Co-Manufacturing Market, working July 23-26 on the Fantasia Film Festival, with Caballero writing alongside Luis Antonio Aldana and the duo producing with Rafael Tomaseto.
“The Ballad of Tita and the Machines” takes place in a close to future when AI humanoids are changing human laborers. Titular strawberry picker Tita stands towards the automation, enlisting a cleansing woman, development employee and seamstress to combat again towards the humanoids. What begins as a quiet insurrection erupts right into a viral citywide strike, culminating in a daring heist. Collectively, these “working class Avengers” infiltrate the high-security robotics firm behind the automation to drag off an unattainable mission.
In his director’s assertion, Caballero says that “because the son of Mexican immigrant farmworkers,” he grew up watching his dad and mom work in California’s strawberry fields, “largely invisible but important to the very basis of this nation.” “This movie reframes who we think about once we speak about ‘the longer term,’ putting a 60-year-old queer Mexican lady on the coronary heart of a style that has lengthy excluded folks like her.”
“As AI reshapes our world, the employees most impacted stay unseen,” the director tells Selection. “It is a social sci-fi movie the place the hero isn’t a superhero or a tech mogul however a strawberry picker, centering immigrant laborers who helped construct this nation however are sometimes rendered invisible. This movie is exclusive however not area of interest, it’s a big-world, adventurous sci-fi movie grounded in social justice and performances. Tita isn’t just a hero… She’s a motion.”
“Partnering with Pushed Equation provides us a uncommon and delightful alternative: to create a sci-fi movie crafted totally by Latine voices,” echoes Aldana. “It is a deeply private, well timed movie, grounded within the power and resilience of our communities. Pushed Equation shares our ardour for telling high-quality, socially pressing tales. We actually couldn’t think about higher companions on this journey.”
Pushed Equation’s Helana Sardinha says: “Ever since we shot the brief, we’ve recognized our collaboration with Cabaldana Alchemy was one thing highly effective. As immigrant filmmakers, Tita hits near house: it’s private, pressing and precisely the type of story we’re dedicated to championing. We’re excited to develop this partnership and produce this movie to the world.”
“The Ballad of Tita and the Machines” can be Caballero’s function directorial debut, following a number of award-winning brief movies, together with “Acuitzeramo,” which gained greatest LGBTQ brief on the American Pavilion on the Cannes Movie Pageant, and “Damaged Sunflower Hearts.” The director can be the co-founder (alongside Aldana) of L.A.-based Cabaldana Alchemy, an organization whose mission is to create working-class U.S. Latinx tales from an LGBTQ perspective.
Pushed Equation is a manufacturing firm primarily based between Los Angeles and São Paulo, based by Helena Sardinha and Rafael Thomaseto. They’re devoted to director-driven cinema with worldwide attain, creating and producing narrative and documentary movies that problem conference, each creatively and structurally. Their work has been acknowledged at main festivals and applications together with Sundance, TIFF, Tribeca and SXSW.
Expectation Administration’s Mitchell Bendersky rounds up the manufacturing crew as a improvement producer on the movie, which is anticipated to shoot within the fall of 2026.
