EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American rights to Allswell in New York, a dramedy starring and co-produced by The Bear Emmy nominee Liza Colón-Zayas, set to hit theaters this fall.

The film also stars Elizabeth Rodriguez (Orange Is the New Black) and Daphne Rubin-Vega (In the Heights). The film centers on Daisy (Rodriguez), a Brooklyn restaurateur excited about the prospect of finally becoming a mother, who welcomes her young surrogate mother into her home for the final weeks of her pregnancy, blind to the enormous risk she’s taking—and the secret the troubled young woman is hiding. Meanwhile, sister Ida (Colón-Zayas), a counselor at a local clinic trying to keep others on the straight and narrow, begins to feel the emotional pull of their long-estranged brother, leading to a life-changing discovery. And sister-in-law Serene (Rubin-Vega), who’s making a living as a vocal coach and reliving her former glory days, soon realizes her daughter is making money in a very dangerous way, sending the former pop star into fight mode to save her only child from the kind of youthful mistakes she once made.

Allswell in New York premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Festival, where it won Best Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film. The film is directed by Ben Snyder and features Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire), Felix Solis (The Forgotten), Max Casella (Tulsa King), Michael Rispoli (The Rum Diary), Shyrley Rodriguez (The Get Down), MacKenzie Lansing (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), and J. Cameron Barnett (Pose).

Snyder and Rodriguez wrote the screenplay from a story by Colón-Zayas and Rubin-Vega. Producers included Rodriguez, Snyder, Gia Walsh, Ari Issler, Paul Jarrett and Vince Jolivette.