KILLING CASTRO | TRIBECA PREMIERE

Congrats to all the Killing Castro team as the film world premiered last night at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Tempo developed the project over several years and it’s great to see the film is now finished with Brad Feinstein’s Romulus Entertainment at the helm.

Set against one of the most volatile flashpoints of the Cold War, Killing Castro directed by Eif Riviera unfolds in 1960 New York, where a convergence of forces — including the CIA, FBI and the Mafia — begins to close in on Cuban leader Fidel Castro following his arrival at the United Nations. Featuring Al Pacino as a CIA operative orchestrating a covert plan to eliminate Castro, the film traces a city drawn into a tightening web of political tension and surveillance. When Castro (Diego Boneta) unexpectedly relocates to Harlem’s Hotel Theresa at the invitation of Malcolm X (Kendrick Sampson), the pressure electrifies the global stage. A young translator (Xolo Maridueña), finds himself caught between duty and proximity, his growing curiosity complicating the boundaries between surveillance and trust, while a hotel worker (KiKi Layne) becomes an unwilling participant in a widening political web.