Selena Gomez is ready to scale a big-screen biopic about Peruvian mountaineer and social entrepreneur Silvia Vásquez-Lavado.
Titled In the Shadow of the Mountain, the film is based on upcoming memoir of the same name by Vásquez-Lavado, who became the first Peruvian woman to summit Mount Everest and the first openly gay woman to complete the Seven Summits, a challenge to climb the highest mountain on each continent.
Scott Budnick’s impact-focused co-finance company One Community, a backer of last year’s Michael B. Jordan starrer Just Mercy, is producing alongside Oscar winner Donna Gigliotti and her Tempesta Films banner.