Amir Delara and Youssef Delara
We like to think of ourselves as passionate storytellers who love all things film; from geeking out on post production workflow to the fine points of distribution. We pride ourselves on bringing message bearing films to market, not leaving a stone unturned when it comes to making sure they find their audience. As a result, we have secured worldwide distribution on all our titles. We don’t forget that our primary responsibility is our investors and recoupment of their capital.
ESL
Our first feature, English as a Second Language, starred Kuno Becker, Maria Conchita Alonso and John Michael Higgins. The film premiered on the Showtime Networks and had a successful festival run. ESL is a timeless love story that tracks a young man’s journey from Mexico to the US to support his family and a young woman’s journey of self-discovery.
BEDROOMS
Bedrooms, a gut wrenching drama of four intertwined stories with multiple writers and directors was our foray into film festival critical acclaim. Bedrooms stars Julie Benz, Moon Bloodgood, Xander Berkely and Barry Bostwick. “Bedrooms” also had a strong festival run and premiered on the Showtime Networks.
FILLY BROWN
Our second foray into critical acclaim landed us a birth at the prestigious Sundance film Festival as Filly Brown secured a dramatic competition birth as well as domestic release by Lion’s Gate/Pantelion on over 200 screens. Filly Brown is a story about a tough female rapper transforming from underground street rapper to pop stardom. The film stars Gina Rodriguez, Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips and the late Jenni Rivera.
ENTER THE DANGEROUS MIND
EDM, was our exciting descent into the world of the “psychological thriller”. Starring; Jake Hoffman, Nikki Reed and Scott Bakula, the film is set in the underground electro world, tracking the dark mind of a musical savant who goes on a horrific killing spree. The script very simply answered the question of what would the life of someone who just for all intents and purposes snapped. With the rise of school shootings and mental illness we wanted to explore the dark tenets of that world. The film premiered at the 2013 SXSW film festival and racked up many audience awards.
THE BOUNCE BACK
This light hearted urban romantic comedy allowed us to flex our rom com skills. We were approached to write, direct and produce a vessel for Shemar Moore to show off his comedy chops as his team prepped him for commercial fare. We created the story of a best selling relationship book author, who, on a whirlwind promotional tour meets a therapist who thinks he’s nothing more than a charlatan. The film stars Shemar Moore, Bill Bellamy, Nadine Velazquez, Cheryl Underwood and Kali Hawk and to this day has been one of our most beloved titles.
JAMAL
A young Syrian boy is smuggled into America by a sympathetic US soldier, hoping to seek asylum for the child. However, the soldier faces harsh criticism and xenophobia from his wife and family members until a life changing event brings them all together as a family.
Will Raée
Austin Found – 2017 (Director)
A woman who is fed up with her mundane lifestyle hatches a scheme to make her family instant celebrities, but not everything goes as planned as her wild tempered ex-boyfriend starts to lose it.
1000 Ways to Die – 2008 – 2012
Several different deaths based on true stories.
Criss Angel Mindfreak (TV Series) (producer – 16 episodes, 2005 – 2006) (las vegas producer – 1 episode, 2005)
Meet Our Team
Amir Delara is the CEO, Founder and Executive of Financing for Cima Films Inc. In 2001, Mr. Delara formed Cima Films, a commercial production company specializing in Latino media and markets, to provide marketing and advertising services for his various businesses. Having placed over four million dollars in Spanish language television, radio and print advertising, Mr. Delara’s Cima Films made a successful business of effective communication with the Latino community.
Youssef Delara began his career in the film industry in visual effects. He began as a Visual Effects Associate on the highly successful Paramount Television series, STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE, where he advanced to become the Visual Effects Supervisor. He went on to produce visual effects for STAR TREK: VOYAGER as well as sequences for the popular STAR TREK feature films, GENERATIONS and INSURRECTION. After a stint working on another visual effects heavy television series, Universal Studio’s BURNING ZONE and two heavy visual effects features, THE KARATE DOG & BABY GENIUSES 2, he turned his sharp visual and editorial skills to feature films.
Will soon produced SyFy Channel’s “Alien God’s” and helped launch, and Produced, the highly successful first season of the A&E Television’s series “Criss Angel MindFreak.” After Mindfreak, Will jumped into the feature world and produced the motion pictures Honor, and The Exorcist Chronicles.
In 2015, will wrote and directed the dark comedy “Lost in Austin.” He also directed the short film Faith & Dreams, and developed the feature film “Girl Soldier” starring Uma Thurman, which is set to start production in late 2016. Additionally, he is developing a hip-hop television series with WME and 3 ARTS, based on the film Filly Brown.
In 2016 he directed Lost In Austin and is scheduled to premiere in 2017. He is currently directing Girl Soldier which is in pre-production.