‘I'm Still Here' Producer Rodrigo Teixeira Teams With Rami Kodeih & Nora Mariana On Bank Heist Drama ‘Wolves'
EXCLUSIVE: I'm Still Here Producer Rodrigo Teixeira is teaming with LA-based filmmaking duo Rami Kodeih and Nora Mariana on bank heist drama, inspired by the real-life collapse of Lebanon's banking system in 2019.
Kodeih is set to direct from an original screenplay co-written with Mariana. The pair previously collaborated on Warsaw Ghetto-set short Alina and Maki & Zorro.
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Teixeira is producing under his RT Features banner alongside Mariana and Kodeih. The film is currently in production in Lebanon.
CAA Media Finance is handling sales. Executive producers include Berta Marchiori for RT Features; David Levine and Jeff Okin for Anonymous Content; and Riccardo Maddalosso for Feig Finkel LLP. Marie-Lynn Nasrallah will serve as co-executive producer, Jennifer Haddad as associate producer, and Joshua Owen as co-associate producer.
Wolves takes place in Beirut during Lebanon's real-life 2019 economic collapse and revolves around a young woman who is unable to withdraw her life's savings, which she needs to pay for her sister's uterus cancer surgery.
They recruit a truck driver and an ex-militia fighter to hatch a daring all-night plan to take what's rightfully theirs from the corrupt banking system. But as their scheme escalates, so does the danger, forcing them to confront the true cost of survival, justice, and sisterhood in a city on the brink.
The project dates back to May 2020, when Kodeih and Mariana were inspired by their own savings being stuck in Lebanon during banking crisis.
The concept originated when the banks first shut off depositors and Mariana sent a DM to a friend asking: 'Do I need to write a heist movie about me stealing my own money?' This initial story idea was more than two years before a string of bank robberies that swept through Beirut.
Beirut-raised writer and director Kodeih's work has screened at Cannes Directors', BFI London Film Festival and Clermont-Ferrand.
His most recent short film Alina, starring Alia Shawkat, screened at over 250 film festivals worldwide, winning 150 festival awards. Other credits include shorts Maki & Zorro, The Mill, and A Sheherazade Tale, as well as the documentary Wheels of War.
Writer Mariana's recent credits include the Sam Esmail-produced miniseries Angelyne as well as several collaborations with Kodeih on Apple's Little America as well as award-winning shorts Alina and Maki & Zorro.
Kodeih and Mariana have developed projects with Pablo Larraín's Fabula, Participant Media and Alfonso Cuarón's Esperanto Filmoj. They are both represented by Anonymous Content.
RT Features is currently in pre-production for James Gray's Paper Tiger starring two-time Academy Award nominee Scarlett Johansson and BAFTA-nominee Miles Teller, and recently produced Walter Salles' I'm Still Here, which won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.
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