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LUPE Q AND THE GALACTIC EARWORMS (LUPE Q Y LOS GUSANOS GALACTICOS)
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Development - ENGLISH, SPANISH - Comedy, Science-fiction, LGBT - 100 minutes

Log Line

Three scrappy teens in a punk band discover their terrible music is the only thing that can save the world from an alien invasion.

Year of production : 2023

Director(s) : Javier BADILLO
Writer(s) : Javier BADILLO, Nat MARSHIK
Producer(s) : Javier BADILLO (Spitshine Flicks)

Synopsis

Lupe Q, a Latinx high school misfit, leads the worst punk rock band in the country, with her best friend Toro and not-so-best-friend Pachi. When their music suddenly causes someone to eject a strange worm from their ears during a concert, a mysterious secret agent whisks the band away to his secret laboratory, where they discover their noisy songs are the only thing that can reverse a space alien invasion already underway. But as they realize they are just pawns in a much bigger intergalactic war, they must work together to evade aliens and agents alike, infiltrate an orbiting alien spaceship, and learn to lean on their families and their punk rock to save humanity.

Production

Country(ies) : CANADA

Financing plan : Telefilm Canada, CreativeBC, Slated, MovieMaker Magazine

Start of shooting : August 2023

Festivals and Awards

FilmQuest 2022 (Finalist - Best Unproduced Script)
LASCIFI 2022 (HG Wells Award for Best Unproduced Script)
Beaufort International Film Festival 2022 (Nom. Best Feature Film Screenplay)
Mammoth Lakes International Film Festival 2023 (Top 10 Screenplay)


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