Peanuts Entertainment launches in London with Mirabal Sisters film
A new London production company has opened its doors with a Spanish-language film about the Mirabal sisters as its calling card. Peanuts Entertainment has launched in London to develop culturally rooted Latin American stories for international audiences, Variety reported on 28 September 2026.
The company says it will specialise in work that connects the United Kingdom, Latin America and the Caribbean. Its founder is Dominican actor-filmmaker Amílcar Franco, a graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Franco will next appear as an actor in Gareth Evans’ A Colt Is My Passport for Amazon MGM Studios and Orion Pictures.
The flagship project is Alive In Their Garden, a Spanish-language period drama inspired by the legacy of the Mirabal sisters. The sisters opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, and three of them were assassinated in 1960. The project arrives in the centenary year of Minerva Mirabal, one of the sisters.
It was developed in collaboration with Minou Tavárez Mirabal and Jaqueline Guzmán Mirabal and the Mirabal Sisters House Museum. Research took place at the museum and at Fortaleza San Felipe in Puerto Plata. The team was given access to archival photographs, historical documents and personal artefacts, including original garments, accessories and handbags linked to the sisters’ final journey on 25 November 1960.
That date carries wider weight. 25 November is recognised by the United Nations as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The production leans into a physical, textured look. It was shot entirely on 16mm film stock, an older celluloid format prized for its visible grain, with support from Kodak and Harbor.
Peanuts Entertainment says it is committed to a celluloid-first production model, meaning shooting on real film rather than digital cameras where possible. Casting was overseen by Emmy-winning casting director Olissa Rogers. The ensemble includes Karl Queensborough alongside performers from Spain, Argentina and the Dominican Republic.
The inaugural slate also includes the company’s first completed production, The Peanut Vendors. The short revisits the legacy of El Manisero, the famous Cuban song about a street peanut seller. It features narration by Alex Jennings, vocals by Christine Allado and a new arrangement by Marcin Mazurek.
Allado’s contemporary recording of El Manisero for the film was released as a single on 14 August 2026, according to BroadwayWorld.
What makes this stand out is the route it is taking. A London base, a Caribbean and Latin American focus, and a period story built with family members and a museum point to films made to travel from the start.
