{"id":2263050,"date":"2026-02-02T15:38:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2263050"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:38:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:38:41","slug":"concourse-media-nabs-costa-rican-drama-april-ahead-of-its-santa-barbara-film-festival-world-premiere-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/concourse-media-nabs-costa-rican-drama-april-ahead-of-its-santa-barbara-film-festival-world-premiere-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Concourse Media Nabs Costa Rican Drama \u2018April\u2019 Ahead of Its Santa Barbara Film Festival World Premiere (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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L.A.-based sales firm Concourse Media<\/a> has snagged worldwide sales rights to Costa Rican family drama \u201cApril\u201d (\u201cAbril<\/a>\u201d) ahead of its Feb. 7 world premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The company aims to kick off sales at the festival before continuing at the European Film Market (EFM<\/a>) in Berlin.<\/p>\n

A deeply personal story for writer-director Hern\u00e1n Jim\u00e9nez<\/a>, \u201cApril\u201d follows the titular character, a divorc\u00e9e played by Maricarmen Merino<\/a>, who struggles to connect with her resentful daughter. When the daughter decides to live with her father, April is at a loss until she meets hunky bartender Gabriel, played by \u201cHeated Rivalry<\/a>\u201d star Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud<\/a> in his first Spanish-speaking role. This unexpected bond with Gabriel offers her a glimpse of life beyond marriage and motherhood \u2013 until buried truths about her past push her toward collapse.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019April\u2019 is a deeply human story that feels both intimate and universal,\u201d said Kristin Harris<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L.A.-based sales firm Concourse Media has snagged worldwide sales rights to Costa Rican family drama \u201cApril\u201d (\u201cAbril\u201d) ahead of its Feb. 7 world premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The company aims to kick off sales at the festival before continuing at the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin. A deeply personal story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2263051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2263050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Concourse-Media-Nabs-Costa-Rican-Drama-\u2018April-Ahead-of-Its.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263052,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263050\/revisions\/2263052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}