Bachleda and Columbus Short Find ‘Trouble’ in Julius Onah’s Debut

Alicja Bachleda (Ondine) and Columbus Short are set to star in, and Wilmer Valderrama and Jesse Spencer are attached to Julius Onah’s feature debut, The Girl Is In Trouble. Recently profiled in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, Onah, a NYU grad working on his thesis film supported by Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access program is backed by Spike Lee who is exec producing and producing is Toy Closet Films’ Robert Profusek and Ryan Silbert and Jen Gatien of DeerJen Films who we profiled in our American New Wave 25 series.

Written by Mayuran Tiruchelvam (first feature screenplay) and Onah, this follows a Lower East Side bartender who unravels a mystery that connects a desperate young woman (Bachleda) to a missing drug dealer and the scion of New York’s most powerful stockbroker. I imagine Short would topline the picture which is expected to either shoot next week in New York according to THR, or this fall according to TheWrap.