Yellow Rose Movie Storyline. Rose Garcia (Eva Noblezada), an undocumented 17 year old Filipina, dreams of one day leaving her small Texas town to pursue her country music dreams. Her world is shattered when her mom suddenly gets picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Rose, facing this new realty, is forced to flee the scene, leaving behind the only life she knows, and embarks on a journey of self-discovery as she searches for a new home in the honky tonk world of Austin, Texas.
“Fifteen years in development, writer-director Diane Paragas’ Yellow Rose arrives at a fraught point in the national immigration debate with its Texas-set story of an undocumented Filipina single mother and her teenage daughter struggling to remain in the U.S. Expanding on her 2017 short film, Paragas offers a clear-eyed, heartfelt interpretation of a classic American story that’s graciously inclusive and even a bit provocative in its assertion of individual and artistic independence. The film recently won juried narrative feature awards at both the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the Center for Asian American Media’s CAAMFest.”
Yellow Rose (2020)
Directed by: Diane Paragas
Starring: Lea Salonga, Eva Noblezada, Gustavo Gomez, Kelsey Pribilski, Arlene Cavazos, Kenneth Wayne Bradley, Libby Villari, Princess Punzalan, Felicia M. Reyes, Emily Jane Farr
Screenplay by: Diane Paragas
Production Design by: George T. Morrow
Cinematography by: August Thurmer
Film Editing by: Taylor Levy, Liron Reiter
Costume Design by: Amanda Hall
Art Direction by: Christine Gwosdz
Music by: Christopher Hoyt Knight
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some strong language, and teen drinking.
Distributed by: Sony Pictures
Release Date: October 9, 2020
