Director Emily Aguilar shares the story behind the new “Brie’s Bake Off Challenge” movie now on HBO Max.
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EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has acquired streaming rights to the family film Brie‘s Bake Off Challenge, from writer-director Emily Aguilar, for release today. The story follows Brie Hayes (Devyn Leah), an aspiring 12-year-old baker who does everything she can to win first place in her school’s annual Spring Bake Off Challenge.
The story follows Brie Hayes (Devyn Leah), an aspiring 12-year-old baker who does everything she can to win first place in her school’s annual Spring Bake Off Challenge. Brie and her BFFL Millie (Mallory Vertman) must practice and motivate each other in order to win. On top of the actual baking challenges, Brie faces her “archnemesis” and bully, Vanessa Weiler (Delaney Disque), who also wants to win first place. Pressures and tensions rise as the stakes get higher and Vanessa’s crush, Jody (Camden Zapf), is also competing to win. The winner of the Spring Bake Off Challenge will win a whopping $5,000 and tickets to Cosmo Land.
Emily’s Bake Off Challenge also stars Stefannie Smith, Pry’ce Jaymes, Isaiah Givens, Sandy Lisiewski, Tony Amante, Adam Cooley, Lei Ballard, Fatima Razi and Marcus Gogas. Mikayla Kelley-Rieland produced, with Aguilar, Virginia Diaz, Katherine Aguilar-Smith, Jorge Aguilar, Lee E. Smith Jr. and Matthew Blackerby exec producing, and Amanda Ghobadi serving as associate producer. Emily Aguilar negotiated the deal with HBO Max on behalf of her production company The MomentEM Productions. Check out the trailer for her latest film above.
Emily Aguilar on The Neil Haley Show
With Host, Neil Haley, and Co-Host, Caregiver Dave
