ALL THE RIGHT MOVES
If CODA’s recent awards success has taught us anything, it’s that the Audience Award at Sundance is something of a bellwether for nabbing hardware further down the line. (Minari also took home the accolade and subsequent gongs at the Baftas and Oscars.) Add to audience anointment the serious promotion and campaign spending power of Apple TV+, which CODA picked up when it was bought by the streaming giant at the fest, and it’s not unrealistic to have high expectations for the contender power of gentle indie bildungsroman Cha Cha Real Smooth.
“I don’t think you ever go in with the intention of winning something, or selling it to a certain home, or selling it for a certain amount of money, ” says writer, director, producer and star Cooper Raiff when we catch up with him at South By Southwest in March.
“I just wanted it to be a great movie that my friends and family were going to love, and that I was going to love, and that hopefully other
