{"id":1012980,"date":"2026-08-20T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1012980\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:05:14","slug":"watermelon-pictures-acquires-diego-lunas-migration-drama-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1012980\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon Pictures Acquires Diego Luna’s Migration Drama Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWatermelon Pictures<\/a> has made another splash, acquiring North American rights to migration drama \u201cAshes<\/a>,\u201d directed and co-written by Mexican actor, director and producer Diego Luna<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe deal comes following the film\u2019s world premiere in Cannes and ahead of its bow in Toronto next month. <\/p>\n

\n\tAdapted from the critically acclaimed feminist novel \u201cCeniza en la boca,\u201d published in English as \u201cEating Ashes,\u201d by prominent Mexican author Brenda Navarro, the film follows Lucila, a young woman who leaves Mexico with her younger brother to reunite with their mother in Madrid after years apart. Their hopes for a new beginning quickly collide with a far more difficult reality than Lucila imagined, forcing her to navigate the emotional weight of displacement, fractured family bonds and the struggle to build a life in an unfamiliar country. It stars Anna D\u00edaz (\u201cLa Cocina\u201d) and Adriana Paz (\u201cEmilia P\u00e9rez\u201d), alongside an ensemble cast including Luisa Huertas, Guillermo R\u00edos, Sergio Bautista, Benny Emmanuel, Teresa Lozano and Adriana Jacom\u00e9.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cAshes\u201d screenplay was written by Luna, Abia Castillo and Diego Rabasa, with Luna returning to the director\u2019s chair for his atest exploration of family, identity and belonging. The film was produced by Inna Payan, Val\u00e9rie Delpierre, Luis Salinas, Diego Rabasa and Diego Luna. The film is a production of La Corriente del Golfo, Animal de Luz Films, Inicia Films and Perro Azul, with support from ICAA. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m very pleased to partner with Watermelon Pictures on the U.S. and Canadian theatrical release of \u2018Ashes.\u2019 We couldn\u2019t be in better hands,\u201d said Luna. \u201cTheir vision and commitment to supporting films that challenge perspectives and inspire audiences is deeply important to us. We share their belief in the power of film to move people, and I\u2019m thrilled to have a partner who believes in \u2018Ashes\u2019 as deeply as we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe distribution deal was negotiated by Munir Atalla, head of production and acquisitions for Watermelon Pictures, and Jean-Benoit Henry, head of international sales at Luxbox, which represents worldwide sales of the film.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are incredibly proud to welcome Diego Luna and \u2018Ashes\u2019 to Watermelon Pictures,\u201d said Hamza Ali, co-founder of Watermelon Pictures. \u201cDiego has created a deeply relatable human film about migration, family and the search for belonging that feels both intimate and universal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watermelon Pictures has made another splash, acquiring North American rights to migration drama \u201cAshes,\u201d directed and co-written by…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":797021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[187343,11172,171,53,67,132,68,198146],"class_list":["post-1012980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ashes","tag-diego-luna","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-watermelon-pictures"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117128457670758560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}