Maya takes int'l rights to 'Mosquita y Mari'

'Mosquita y Mari'Maya Intl., the sales and distribution arm of L.A.-based indie Maya Entertainment founded by executive co-chair Moctesuma Esparza, reaches Sundance handling worldwide rights to Next Film selection "Mosquita y Mari," Aurora Guerrero's helming debut. The arrival-of-age tale is about two 15-year-old Latinas going to grips while using sexual undercurrent inside their friendship. Pic can be a co-production between Chad Burris' Indion Entertainment and Maya Intl., which will manage foreign sales. The Film Collaborative handles domestic sales in the pic at Sundance. Pic has furthermore been recognized for your Sundance Selects selection at Berlin's European Film Market, which Maya Intl. prexy Elias Axume will attend."Mosquita y Mari" was recently granted the 2011 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grant plus an LG Cinema 3d Fellowship. Guerrero can be a former Sundance Institute/Ford Foundation Film Fellow and was recently named a period of time Warner Fellow. Maya Intl. is selling rights to photos including Indion Entertainment's "Ass Backwards," starring Alicia Silverstone "It's a Disaster," toplined by Julia Stiles and America Ferrara "Cafe," starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy and "Without Males," introduced by Avoi Longoria Parker, Christian Slater and Oscar Nunez. Axume can also be searching to obtain worldwide rights to new game game titles at Sundance. Parent company Maya Entertainment Group, Corporation. can be a multi-platform content and distribution company that has built a library more than 100 game game titles specific at American Latino additionally to global auds. Introduced by Esparza, whose credits include "Selena" and HBO's "Walkout," and prexy Rob Valdez (founding father of SiTV, now nuvoTV), Maya remains growing its achieve via altering distribution technologies. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com