'Cha Cha Real Smooth,' the second feature from SXSW winner Cooper Raiff, is one of the hottest titles heading to Park City.
that was then rushed to SXSW for consideration. When it was announced in March 2020 that the Austin-based fest would be all-virtual because of COVID-19, Raiff initially was thrilled to have extra time to work on the film. “It didn’t feel crushing in any way,” he explains. “Everyone was so nice and supportive. It made me feel like I should be sadder because everyone was like, ‘I’m so sorry.’ ” A couple of weeks later, Raiff ignored a call from a number he didn’t recognize.
Representation with ICM Partners and a dizzying array of general meetings soon followed, which is how Raiff met Ro Donnelly, the Netflix vet who launched production company TeaTime with actress Dakota Johnson. Raiff pitched the kernel of what would become his sophomore effort,. “I had this idea about a coming-of-age movie for a 12-year-old, a 22-year-old and a 32-year-old,” he says of the project, which Johnson boarded as star and producer.
“I was in way over my head, had never been in any of those [kinds of] meetings and didn’t know what to say,” admits Raiff. “I took the ‘I’m quiet because I’m thinking’ move.”— the title comes from the 2000 dance-floor starter staple “Cha Cha Slide” — follows a recent college grad working as a bar mitzvah party starter when he befriends a young mother and her autistic daughter .
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