Frances Lausell

Filmes

Clube da Luta Para Mulheres
Producer
Quando Anna Wyncomb é apresentada a um submundo de luta feminina para lidar com toda a bagunça que está a sua vida, ela percebe que está mais conectada à história do clube do que imaginava, redescobrindo a si mesma, sua força interior e seu verdadeiro propósito.
Broche de oro: Comienzos
Producer
Rafael, Pablo and Anselmo meet at an elders’ home. Their friendship grows based on their sense of humor and will to live. Life at the home can be sad. With their typical wit, they recruit other residents, particularly three ladies nicknamed the Greeks. Together they challenge the home's rules of behavior and register into a sports contest for a juicy prize. Because there are no rules for growing old, Broche de oro: Beginnings celebrates life and reminds us to live it to the fullest until the end.
Aurora
Producer
Six-year-old Aurora is abandoned in the mountains by human traffickers. She wanders until she finds a cabin in the woods.
Presos no Paraíso
Producer
Após perder seu emprego, Tess Nelson decide aproveitar uma conferência em Porto Rico para tentar salvar sua carreira profissional. Ela conhece um charmoso homem que lhe ensina novas maneiras de ver a vida e o amor.
Broche de Oro
Producer
Rafael, Elmo, and Pablo run away from the strict Catholic retirement home where they live with Carlos, Rafael's grandson, to embark on an adventure and prove life does not stop because of age.
La carta
Producer
An unusually common love story about a boy's search for inspiration to write a love letter.
Love Child
Associate Producer
Maria, 18 year old daughter of a single mother, decides to look for the father she has never met after her mother dies in a tragic accident. She finally finds him in a nearby town, living in what appears to be a haunted old country house in the middle of a neglected banana plantation. Amidst the peculiarities and superstitions of the Dominican country side, father and daughter will have to face the ghosts of the past that haunt them both.
America
Producer
América, a 30-year-old mother who lives in a remote Caribbean village, suffers the hardest hit when her lover takes her daughter from her. Fury and fear push her to run away. In her new life as a nanny in New York City, with support from relatives and other latinas, América finds comfort and hope. When she dares to dream of a life without violence, reality hunts her down. Will she survive to tell her story?
O Rei da Rua
Producer
Filho de traficante vê o pai morrer ainda criança e sonha em se tornar um rei do tráfico, como ele. Já adulto, entidades macabras o ajudam a concretizar esse sonho.
Miente
Producer
Henry is an introverted young artist who, seeking to escape the banality and violence of urban life, begins to blur the distinction between fantasy and reality.
Las estrellas del estuario
Producer
Guided by a map, four children decide to embark on a fascinating adventure to find a magical treasure. While their parents search for them, the children find the meaning and magic of the nature they promise to protect and care.
Chiquito pero juguetón: The Muvi
Producer
In 2008, Luis Raúl kicked off a farewell tour called "Chiquito pero juguetón" ("Little But Playful") with the intention of retiring afterward. The tour was highly successful in Puerto Rico and one of the venues where the show was taped was released as a film in theatres in the island titled "Chiquito pero juguetón: The Muvi".
Pedro
Producer
An intimate biopic of Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive Cuban-American, who was cast for the MTV reality show, The Real World: San Francisco, in 1994. Due to his experience on the Real World, Pedro became a celebrity and a sympathetic face of the AIDS epidemic for millions of Americans who had never met anyone with HIV/AIDS.
Marina's Secret World
Producer
The magical friendship between a deaf girl and a dragon turtle that helps her overcome her limitations and gain the community’s and other children’s acceptance. It is based on the novel "La sirenita sin voz" (The Mermaid Without A Voice) by Kalman Barsy.
Manuela & Manuel
Producer
Deep inside, Manuel has always been Manuela. Amidst her worst love crisis, Manuela reinvents herself as Manuel in order to pass as the fiancé of her best friend Coca - who is pregnant from a one-night stand and must face her conservative family. Hidden identities, misunderstandings, and the tension between two friends pretending to be what they are not, stage a colorful and up-beat story.
Una historia común
Producer
The daily life of a couple in a coastal town in Puerto Rico changes upon the arrival of an old friend whom they believed had perished in Vietnam. At the same time, a writer moves into the town and upsets everyone’s routine.
Las caras lindas de Tite Curet
Executive Producer
Documents the life and musical production of Puerto Rican music composer, Tite Curet Alonso. Includes Tite Curet's last interview before his death.