Sony Pictures Classics is scheduled to released the independent film Quinceanera, Friday.
The film’s backer and executive producer is Nicholas Boyias, head of adult video distributor, Marina Pacific Distributors.
Boyias last month told the Los Angeles Times that in the film’s original press notes, he purposely made no mention of his porn connection in order to keep anti-porn activists from attacking his film and hurting ticket sales.
Boyias said he met the film’s co-writer and co-director Wash Westmoreland in 2003 while shooting the adult film The Hole. Westmoreland and his partner Richard Glatzer who is the film’s other writer and who co-directs, later joined forces with Boyias who financed the film.
Westmoreland said he became involved in adult movies as part of research he was doing on the adult film industry for a mainstream movie, called The Fluffer.
Costing about $500,000 to make, Quinceanera, proved to be a hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, winning top drama and audience awards there. In Spanis, “quinceanera,”means a celebration of a girl’s coming of age at age 15.
The film, which stars Emily Rios, tells the tale the so-called “Americanization” of generations of a Latino family living in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles.
Pictured: Emily Rios
