Chloe Abrahams’ BIFA-winning documentary The Taste Of Mango has sold to Oscilloscope Laboratories for the US and Conic for UK-Ireland.
A True/False 2023 premiere, The Taste Of Mango sees Abrahams untangle knots in her family’s unspoken past, by probing questions her mother and grandmother have long pushed aside.
It is produced by Abrahams for Cardamom Films and Elliott Whitton at Fit Via Vi. Both distributors acquired the film from the filmmakers, and are planning theatrical releases for 2024.
Executive producers are Diane Quon, Kellen Quinn, Martha Gregory, Hannah Bush Bailey, Robina Riccitiello and Bill Way.
Sri Lankan-British filmmaker Abrahams won...
A True/False 2023 premiere, The Taste Of Mango sees Abrahams untangle knots in her family’s unspoken past, by probing questions her mother and grandmother have long pushed aside.
It is produced by Abrahams for Cardamom Films and Elliott Whitton at Fit Via Vi. Both distributors acquired the film from the filmmakers, and are planning theatrical releases for 2024.
Executive producers are Diane Quon, Kellen Quinn, Martha Gregory, Hannah Bush Bailey, Robina Riccitiello and Bill Way.
Sri Lankan-British filmmaker Abrahams won...
- 5/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
Just this year, Sean Wang is already a Sundance breakout and an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker. Finally, Wang’s feature debut “Dìdi” will be in theaters thanks to Focus Features.
The semi-autobiographical coming of age story of “Dìdi” follows a Taiwanese-American tween (Izaac Wang) in 2008. At 13 years old, he’s just about to begin high school and he learns “how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love his mom,” during the last month of summer, per the film’s synopsis.
Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua, Raul Dial, Aaron Chang, Mahaela Park, Chiron Cilia Denk, Montay Boseman, Sunil Mukherjee Maurillo, Alaysia Simmons, Alysha Syed, Georgie August, and Joan Chen also star.
Wang writes, directs, and produces, with Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters, and Valerie Bush also producing. The executive producers include Chris Columbus, Eleanor Columbus, Dave A. Liu, Jennifer J. Pritzker, Robina Riccitiello, Joan Chen, Chris Quintos Cathcart, and Tyler Boehm.
The semi-autobiographical coming of age story of “Dìdi” follows a Taiwanese-American tween (Izaac Wang) in 2008. At 13 years old, he’s just about to begin high school and he learns “how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love his mom,” during the last month of summer, per the film’s synopsis.
Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua, Raul Dial, Aaron Chang, Mahaela Park, Chiron Cilia Denk, Montay Boseman, Sunil Mukherjee Maurillo, Alaysia Simmons, Alysha Syed, Georgie August, and Joan Chen also star.
Wang writes, directs, and produces, with Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters, and Valerie Bush also producing. The executive producers include Chris Columbus, Eleanor Columbus, Dave A. Liu, Jennifer J. Pritzker, Robina Riccitiello, Joan Chen, Chris Quintos Cathcart, and Tyler Boehm.
- 5/14/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Metrograph Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to The Black Sea, the offbeat comedy from Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden which debuted at this year’s SXSW Film Festival. Metrograph will release the pic theatrically later this year.
Inspired by Harden’s travels to Bulgaria, and improvised by Harden and its Bulgarian cast, The Black Sea traces the journey of a charismatic dreamer from Brooklyn who inadvertently ends up as the only Black person in a small town on the Black Sea in Eastern Europe. While initially, all he wants is to get home, he becomes increasingly drawn to the unorthodox characters and unexpected connections he finds.
UTA Independent Film Group negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers. The film was produced by Izabella Tzenkova, Kotva Films, and GiveThanks. Executive producers include Andrea Leibof, Cameron Brody, Dana Høegh, Jonas Carpignano, Josh Peters, Robina Riccitiello, Ted Hope, and Ted Wright.
Inspired by Harden’s travels to Bulgaria, and improvised by Harden and its Bulgarian cast, The Black Sea traces the journey of a charismatic dreamer from Brooklyn who inadvertently ends up as the only Black person in a small town on the Black Sea in Eastern Europe. While initially, all he wants is to get home, he becomes increasingly drawn to the unorthodox characters and unexpected connections he finds.
UTA Independent Film Group negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers. The film was produced by Izabella Tzenkova, Kotva Films, and GiveThanks. Executive producers include Andrea Leibof, Cameron Brody, Dana Høegh, Jonas Carpignano, Josh Peters, Robina Riccitiello, Ted Hope, and Ted Wright.
- 5/9/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Lisa Steen’s debut feature Late Bloomers, starring Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy franchise), is the latest starry festival indie to have secured North American distribution through Vertical.
Other recent pickups for Vertical include the Sundance genre-bender Your Monster starring Melissa Barrera, true crime doc The Speedway Murders, Brittany Snow’s SXSW-premiering directorial debut Parachute, and the Zoe Saldaña thriller The Absence of Eden co-acquired with Roadside Attractions, to name just a few.
Specifics as to the release plan for Late Bloomers haven’t been disclosed.
World premiering at SXSW 2023, the film centers on Louise (Gillan), an aimless and recently single 28-year-old Brooklynite, who drunkenly falls while stalking her ex and breaks her hip. This lands her in a physical therapy ward full of people twice her age. There, she meets Antonina (Margaret Sophie Stein), a cranky elderly Polish woman, who speaks no English. Through circumstances beyond her control,...
Other recent pickups for Vertical include the Sundance genre-bender Your Monster starring Melissa Barrera, true crime doc The Speedway Murders, Brittany Snow’s SXSW-premiering directorial debut Parachute, and the Zoe Saldaña thriller The Absence of Eden co-acquired with Roadside Attractions, to name just a few.
Specifics as to the release plan for Late Bloomers haven’t been disclosed.
World premiering at SXSW 2023, the film centers on Louise (Gillan), an aimless and recently single 28-year-old Brooklynite, who drunkenly falls while stalking her ex and breaks her hip. This lands her in a physical therapy ward full of people twice her age. There, she meets Antonina (Margaret Sophie Stein), a cranky elderly Polish woman, who speaks no English. Through circumstances beyond her control,...
- 3/7/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Sugarcane has become the latest big documentary deal out of the Sundance Film Festival.
Nat Geo has snapped up the doc, an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school which ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
Deadline understands that the Disney-owned factual brand has struck a deal in the low seven-figures. The doc comes from filmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie.
National Geographic Documentary Films will roll out Sugarcane at global festivals throughout the rest of the year and release it in theaters before its streaming debut on Disney+.
It is the latest deal out of Sundance for National Geographic Documentary Films; the company picked up Fire Of Love, which was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars, out of the festival in 2022 as well as The Territory, which came from director Alex Pritz.
There were numerous documentary deals out of...
Nat Geo has snapped up the doc, an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school which ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
Deadline understands that the Disney-owned factual brand has struck a deal in the low seven-figures. The doc comes from filmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie.
National Geographic Documentary Films will roll out Sugarcane at global festivals throughout the rest of the year and release it in theaters before its streaming debut on Disney+.
It is the latest deal out of Sundance for National Geographic Documentary Films; the company picked up Fire Of Love, which was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars, out of the festival in 2022 as well as The Territory, which came from director Alex Pritz.
There were numerous documentary deals out of...
- 2/21/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Focus Features had landed the worldwide rights to Sean Wang’s feature directorial debut Dídi, which won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
The film is set in 2008 in the San Francisco Bay Area and, according to the film’s logline, follows an “impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.”
Izaac Wang (Good Boys) stars in the film, alongside Joan Chen, Shirley Chen and Chang Li Hu. The film was also awarded the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast.
THR‘s Sundance review of the film reads: “The film is a very solid entry in the annals of coming-of-age films, reminiscent of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade in both its affection for its young characters and its willingness to meet them on their own terms.
The film is set in 2008 in the San Francisco Bay Area and, according to the film’s logline, follows an “impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.”
Izaac Wang (Good Boys) stars in the film, alongside Joan Chen, Shirley Chen and Chang Li Hu. The film was also awarded the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast.
THR‘s Sundance review of the film reads: “The film is a very solid entry in the annals of coming-of-age films, reminiscent of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade in both its affection for its young characters and its willingness to meet them on their own terms.
- 1/31/2024
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Sean Wang’s popular Sundance coming-of-age tale Didi, winner of the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and the U.S. Dramatic special jury award for best ensemble cast.
Didi is set in California’s Bay Area in 2008 and follows a group of first-generation teens seen through the eyes of a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy.
Izaac Wang stars alongside Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, and Chang Li Hua.
Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters, Valerie Bush, and Wang served as producers on the Antigravity Academy and Spark Features production, with Chris Quintos Cathcart, Tyler Boehm, Robina Riccitiello,...
Didi is set in California’s Bay Area in 2008 and follows a group of first-generation teens seen through the eyes of a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy.
Izaac Wang stars alongside Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, and Chang Li Hua.
Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters, Valerie Bush, and Wang served as producers on the Antigravity Academy and Spark Features production, with Chris Quintos Cathcart, Tyler Boehm, Robina Riccitiello,...
- 1/31/2024
- ScreenDaily
“Dìdi,” a coming-of-age drama that won the U.S. dramatic audience award at Sundance, has sold to Focus Features. The semi-autobiographical film was written, produced and directed by Sean Wang in his feature debut.
The film follows a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy in the throes of an awkward adolescence, as he enjoys the last month of summer before high school begins. He experiences the pangs of first love, becomes friends with some skaters (after promising to make videos of them), fights with his older sister and gets a hard-earned understanding of his mom. It is set in 2008, when MySpace was still a thing and TikTok had yet to explode.
Wang says he hopes that audiences will be able to see a version of themselves in the film, which stars Izaac Wang as the filmmaker’s cinematic alter-ego and Joan Chen (“The Last Emperor”) as his onscreen mother.
“’Dìdi (弟弟)’ is...
The film follows a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy in the throes of an awkward adolescence, as he enjoys the last month of summer before high school begins. He experiences the pangs of first love, becomes friends with some skaters (after promising to make videos of them), fights with his older sister and gets a hard-earned understanding of his mom. It is set in 2008, when MySpace was still a thing and TikTok had yet to explode.
Wang says he hopes that audiences will be able to see a version of themselves in the film, which stars Izaac Wang as the filmmaker’s cinematic alter-ego and Joan Chen (“The Last Emperor”) as his onscreen mother.
“’Dìdi (弟弟)’ is...
- 1/31/2024
- by Brent Lang and Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Focus Features said Wednesday that it has acquired global rights on Sean Wang’s Dìdi, which won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast at the just-concluded Sundance Film Festival.
Last week, Wang was nominated for an Oscar for his documentary short Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó, which premiered at SXSW last year and won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. That movie hits Disney+ and Hulu on February 9.
Dìdi is set in 2008 in the Bay Area, and a portrait of early millennial first-generation teenagers as seen through the lens of a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy, played by Izaac Wang. Pic is produced by Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters, Valerie Bush and Wang. It stars Joan Chen, Shirley Chen and Chang Li Hua.
Dìdi is an Antigravity Academy and...
Last week, Wang was nominated for an Oscar for his documentary short Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó, which premiered at SXSW last year and won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. That movie hits Disney+ and Hulu on February 9.
Dìdi is set in 2008 in the Bay Area, and a portrait of early millennial first-generation teenagers as seen through the lens of a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy, played by Izaac Wang. Pic is produced by Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters, Valerie Bush and Wang. It stars Joan Chen, Shirley Chen and Chang Li Hua.
Dìdi is an Antigravity Academy and...
- 1/31/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Shining a light on the insidious child sex trade and the lives it seeks to destroy, director Gabriella A. Moses (“Sin Raíces”) exposes a Dominican community complicit by way of young Desi (Scarlet Camilo), an adolescent girl who dreams of parlaying her nascent musical talents into a full-fledged singing career.
“Boca Chica” takes place in a once serene beachside town, now bustling with foreign tourists. Desi, 12, works at the family restaurant alongside her aunt Nena ( Xiomara Rodríguez) and mother Carmen (Lía Chapman), constantly exposed to unwanted advances and crude comments from older men, both visiting and homegrown.
Music is her escape and, one day, she stumbles across a group of local rappers that set themselves apart from the scene. Her passions begin to boil to the surface as she seeks to avoid the common fate of growing mature before her time and falling prey to the morally bankrupt adults in...
“Boca Chica” takes place in a once serene beachside town, now bustling with foreign tourists. Desi, 12, works at the family restaurant alongside her aunt Nena ( Xiomara Rodríguez) and mother Carmen (Lía Chapman), constantly exposed to unwanted advances and crude comments from older men, both visiting and homegrown.
Music is her escape and, one day, she stumbles across a group of local rappers that set themselves apart from the scene. Her passions begin to boil to the surface as she seeks to avoid the common fate of growing mature before her time and falling prey to the morally bankrupt adults in...
- 11/10/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
The film will stream on Mubi from February 2024, with select screenings in the US.
Mubi has acquired Ben Mullinkosson’s documentary The Last Year Of Darkness for North America, UK, Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India.
The film will stream on Mubi from February 2024, with select screenings in the US.
The Last Year Of Darkness world premiered at Cph:Dox earlier this year where it was awarded a special mention prize in the Next:Wave section and recently screened at the Camden International Film Festival. The film also played within the highlights section at Visions du Réel.
It is the...
Mubi has acquired Ben Mullinkosson’s documentary The Last Year Of Darkness for North America, UK, Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India.
The film will stream on Mubi from February 2024, with select screenings in the US.
The Last Year Of Darkness world premiered at Cph:Dox earlier this year where it was awarded a special mention prize in the Next:Wave section and recently screened at the Camden International Film Festival. The film also played within the highlights section at Visions du Réel.
It is the...
- 9/20/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The film will stream on Mubi from February 2024, with select screenings in the US.
Mubi has acquired Ben Mullinkosson’s documentary The Last Year Of Darkness for North America, UK, Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India.
The film will stream on Mubi from February 2024, with select screenings in the US.
The Last Year Of Darkness world premiered at Cph:Dox earlier this year where it was awarded a special mention prize in the Next:Wave section and recently screened at the Camden International Film Festival. The film also played within the highlights section at Visions du Réel.
It is the...
Mubi has acquired Ben Mullinkosson’s documentary The Last Year Of Darkness for North America, UK, Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India.
The film will stream on Mubi from February 2024, with select screenings in the US.
The Last Year Of Darkness world premiered at Cph:Dox earlier this year where it was awarded a special mention prize in the Next:Wave section and recently screened at the Camden International Film Festival. The film also played within the highlights section at Visions du Réel.
It is the...
- 9/20/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Fashion pioneer Bethann Hardison is turning the camera on her own legacy. Documentary “Invisible Beauty,” co-directed by Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng (“Dior and I”), premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and later screened at Tribeca in the spring. The feature charts model and modeling agent Hardison’s impact on the fashion industry after having pushed the boundaries of what being a supermodel looks like.
Per the official synopsis: “In her lifetime, Bethann Hardison has seen the pendulum swing toward and away from the Black model. At every setback, she spoke up and rallied her colleagues and clients in the industry to advance change. Now in her 70s, the Brooklyn native is writing her memoir, taking stock of her own legacy at a moment when the fashion industry was shaken by discrimination. Directors Tcheng and Hardison trace her impact on fashion from runway shows in the 1970s to roundtables...
Per the official synopsis: “In her lifetime, Bethann Hardison has seen the pendulum swing toward and away from the Black model. At every setback, she spoke up and rallied her colleagues and clients in the industry to advance change. Now in her 70s, the Brooklyn native is writing her memoir, taking stock of her own legacy at a moment when the fashion industry was shaken by discrimination. Directors Tcheng and Hardison trace her impact on fashion from runway shows in the 1970s to roundtables...
- 8/29/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Magnolia Pictures has acquired the U.S. rights to “Invisible Beauty, a documentary telling the story of fashion icon Bethann Hardison.
The film, co-directed by Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng, premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and recently screened at Tribeca. The picture is produced by Lisa Cortés with Naomi Campbell serving as an executive producer and will debut theatrically Sept. 15.
The picture shines a spotlight on Hardison, one of the fashion industry’s most influential icons who, as a pioneering Black model, modeling agent and entrepreneur, pushed the boundaries of fashion culture and has been at the forefront of progress throughout her career. Now in her 70s, the Brooklyn native is currently penning her memoir which will take stock of her legacy amid a fashion industry shaken by discrimination.
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“Bethann...
The film, co-directed by Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng, premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and recently screened at Tribeca. The picture is produced by Lisa Cortés with Naomi Campbell serving as an executive producer and will debut theatrically Sept. 15.
The picture shines a spotlight on Hardison, one of the fashion industry’s most influential icons who, as a pioneering Black model, modeling agent and entrepreneur, pushed the boundaries of fashion culture and has been at the forefront of progress throughout her career. Now in her 70s, the Brooklyn native is currently penning her memoir which will take stock of her legacy amid a fashion industry shaken by discrimination.
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“Bethann...
- 7/18/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Invisible Beauty, the Sundance world premiere documentary about the career of pioneering African American model and fashion icon Bethann Hardison.
Magnolia plans a September 15 theatrical release of the film directed by Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng. Lisa Cortés produced the film; supermodel Naomi Campbell serves as an executive producer.
“In her lifetime, Hardison has seen the pendulum swing toward and away from the Black model,” notes a release about the documentary. “At every setback, she spoke up and rallied her colleagues and clients in the industry to advance change. Now in her 70s, the Brooklyn native is writing her memoir, taking stock of her own legacy at a moment when the fashion industry was shaken by discrimination.”
Model Bethann Hardison on a fashion shoot in New York in 1975.
The documentary...
Magnolia plans a September 15 theatrical release of the film directed by Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng. Lisa Cortés produced the film; supermodel Naomi Campbell serves as an executive producer.
“In her lifetime, Hardison has seen the pendulum swing toward and away from the Black model,” notes a release about the documentary. “At every setback, she spoke up and rallied her colleagues and clients in the industry to advance change. Now in her 70s, the Brooklyn native is writing her memoir, taking stock of her own legacy at a moment when the fashion industry was shaken by discrimination.”
Model Bethann Hardison on a fashion shoot in New York in 1975.
The documentary...
- 7/18/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The thriller has sold in Scandinavia, Japan, Poland and the Middle East.
UK sales outfit Blue Finch Films has scored sales on director Beth de Araújo’s SXSW premiere, Soft & Quiet.
The debut feature from the Brazil-us filmmaker has sold in Scandinavia (NonStop Entertainment), Japan (New Select), Poland (Monolith Films) and the Middle East (Front Row).
As previously announced, Momentum Pictures will release the feature theatrically and on demand in North America and the UK from November 4.
Araújo also produced the thriller, alongside Saba Zerehi, Josh Peters, and Joshua Beirne-Golden. It is executive produced by Robina Riccitiello with Beatriz Sequeira...
UK sales outfit Blue Finch Films has scored sales on director Beth de Araújo’s SXSW premiere, Soft & Quiet.
The debut feature from the Brazil-us filmmaker has sold in Scandinavia (NonStop Entertainment), Japan (New Select), Poland (Monolith Films) and the Middle East (Front Row).
As previously announced, Momentum Pictures will release the feature theatrically and on demand in North America and the UK from November 4.
Araújo also produced the thriller, alongside Saba Zerehi, Josh Peters, and Joshua Beirne-Golden. It is executive produced by Robina Riccitiello with Beatriz Sequeira...
- 11/1/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Blumhouse Productions is one of the biggest names in the horror genre these days – and the folks at Blumhouse were so impressed by writer/director Beth de Araújo’s feature debut Soft & Quiet that they decided to put the company name on the movie ahead of its festival premiere, even though they weren’t involved in the making of it. The film has since landed a distribution deal with Momentum Pictures in the US, Canada, and the UK, and will be receiving a theatrical and VOD release on November 4th. With that date drawing near, a trailer for Soft & Quiet has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.
Soft & Quiet is a thriller that plays out in real time and follows
a single afternoon in the life of an elementary school teacher as she organizes a mixer of like-minded women. When the group heads home,...
Soft & Quiet is a thriller that plays out in real time and follows
a single afternoon in the life of an elementary school teacher as she organizes a mixer of like-minded women. When the group heads home,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Produced by Blumhouse and directed by Beth de Araújo, the SXSW movie Soft & Quiet has been picked up by Momentum Pictures, coming to theaters and VOD on November 4.
Soft & Quiet plays out in real-time, and the official trailer this afternoon ratchets up the tension for a truly nerve-shredding first look at what promises to be a conversation-starter.
Watch the official trailer for Soft & Quiet below.
“The movie follows a single afternoon in the life of an elementary school teacher as she organizes a mixer of like-minded women. When the group heads home, the teacher encounters a woman from her past, leading to a volatile chain of events.”
Stefanie Estes, Olivia Luccardi, Eleanore Pienta, Dana Millican, Melissa Paulo, Jon Beavers, and Cissy Ly star in Soft & Quiet.
Beth de Araújo produced the title alongside Saba Zerehi, Josh Peters, and Joshua Beirne-Golden, with Executive Producers Robina Riccitiello, Beatriz Sequeira and Jason Blum.
Soft & Quiet plays out in real-time, and the official trailer this afternoon ratchets up the tension for a truly nerve-shredding first look at what promises to be a conversation-starter.
Watch the official trailer for Soft & Quiet below.
“The movie follows a single afternoon in the life of an elementary school teacher as she organizes a mixer of like-minded women. When the group heads home, the teacher encounters a woman from her past, leading to a volatile chain of events.”
Stefanie Estes, Olivia Luccardi, Eleanore Pienta, Dana Millican, Melissa Paulo, Jon Beavers, and Cissy Ly star in Soft & Quiet.
Beth de Araújo produced the title alongside Saba Zerehi, Josh Peters, and Joshua Beirne-Golden, with Executive Producers Robina Riccitiello, Beatriz Sequeira and Jason Blum.
- 10/20/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Earlier this year, we heard that the folks at Blumhouse were so impressed by writer/director Beth de Araújo’s feature debut Soft & Quiet that they decided to put the company name on the movie ahead of its festival premiere, even though they weren’t involved in the making of it. Now it has been announced that we’re going to have a chance to see what’s so impressive about Soft & Quiet very soon, as Momentum Pictures has picked up the rights to distribute the film in the US, Canada, and the UK. They’re planning to give it a theatrical and VOD release on November 4th.
Soft & Quiet is a thriller that plays out in real time and follows
a single afternoon in the life of an elementary school teacher as she organizes a mixer of like-minded women. When the group heads home, the teacher encounters a woman from her past,...
Soft & Quiet is a thriller that plays out in real time and follows
a single afternoon in the life of an elementary school teacher as she organizes a mixer of like-minded women. When the group heads home, the teacher encounters a woman from her past,...
- 10/14/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Produced by Blumhouse and directed by Beth de Araújo, the SXSW horror movie Soft & Quiet has been picked up by Momentum Pictures, Deadline reports this afternoon.
The film will be released day and date in theaters and VOD on November 4.
“Soft & Quiet is a thriller that plays out in real time,” Deadline notes.
“The movie follows a single afternoon in the life of an elementary school teacher as she organizes a mixer of like-minded women. When the group heads home, the teacher encounters a woman from her past, leading to a volatile chain of events.”
Stefanie Estes, Olivia Luccardi, Eleanore Pienta, Dana Millican, Melissa Paulo, Jon Beavers, and Cissy Ly star in Soft & Quiet.
Beth de Araújo produced the title alongside Saba Zerehi, Josh Peters, and Joshua Beirne-Golden, with Executive Producers Robina Riccitiello, Beatriz Sequeira and Jason Blum.
“Beth de Araújo finds spectacular moments of tension and discomfort in Soft & Quiet,...
The film will be released day and date in theaters and VOD on November 4.
“Soft & Quiet is a thriller that plays out in real time,” Deadline notes.
“The movie follows a single afternoon in the life of an elementary school teacher as she organizes a mixer of like-minded women. When the group heads home, the teacher encounters a woman from her past, leading to a volatile chain of events.”
Stefanie Estes, Olivia Luccardi, Eleanore Pienta, Dana Millican, Melissa Paulo, Jon Beavers, and Cissy Ly star in Soft & Quiet.
Beth de Araújo produced the title alongside Saba Zerehi, Josh Peters, and Joshua Beirne-Golden, with Executive Producers Robina Riccitiello, Beatriz Sequeira and Jason Blum.
“Beth de Araújo finds spectacular moments of tension and discomfort in Soft & Quiet,...
- 10/14/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Momentum Pictures has acquired distribution rights in the US, Canada, and UK to Soft & Quiet, the debut feature from filmmaker Beth de Araújo which made its world premiere at SXSW.
The film, produced by Blumhouse and Second Grade Teacher, earned gripping reviews out the Austin, TX event, near 90. The pic will be released day and date in theaters and VOD on Nov. 4.
Soft & Quiet is a thriller that plays out in real time. The pic follows a single afternoon in the life of an elementary school teacher as she organizes a mixer of like-minded women. When the group heads home, the teacher encounters a woman from her past, leading to a volatile chain of events.
Araújo produced the title alongside Saba Zerehi, Josh Peters, and Joshua Beirne-Golden, with Executive Producers Robina Riccitiello, Beatriz Sequeira and Jason Blum.
“Beth de Araújo finds spectacular moments of tension and discomfort in Soft & Quiet,...
The film, produced by Blumhouse and Second Grade Teacher, earned gripping reviews out the Austin, TX event, near 90. The pic will be released day and date in theaters and VOD on Nov. 4.
Soft & Quiet is a thriller that plays out in real time. The pic follows a single afternoon in the life of an elementary school teacher as she organizes a mixer of like-minded women. When the group heads home, the teacher encounters a woman from her past, leading to a volatile chain of events.
Araújo produced the title alongside Saba Zerehi, Josh Peters, and Joshua Beirne-Golden, with Executive Producers Robina Riccitiello, Beatriz Sequeira and Jason Blum.
“Beth de Araújo finds spectacular moments of tension and discomfort in Soft & Quiet,...
- 10/14/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Cinedign has landed North American rights to “Sell/Buy/Date,” a playful and provocative film about the sex industry. Meryl Streep executive produced the movie, which debuted at this year’s SXSW Film Festival in Austin.
“Sell/Buy/Date” is set to be released theatrically this fall in the hopes that the film can garner awards attention. After playing in theaters, it will stream exclusively on Fandor with a wider digital release to follow.
Broadway veteran Sarah Jones (“Bridge & Tunnel”) directed the film in her feature debut. Based on her 2016 off-Broadway play, “Sell/Buy/Date” is at once a documentary and a narrative feature. Jones stars as herself, along with four different roles that include a young college student and an 80-something grandmother. In the film, Jones and her characters travel from Los Angeles and Las Vegas across the country to New York City to navigate the sex industry’s relationship with race,...
“Sell/Buy/Date” is set to be released theatrically this fall in the hopes that the film can garner awards attention. After playing in theaters, it will stream exclusively on Fandor with a wider digital release to follow.
Broadway veteran Sarah Jones (“Bridge & Tunnel”) directed the film in her feature debut. Based on her 2016 off-Broadway play, “Sell/Buy/Date” is at once a documentary and a narrative feature. Jones stars as herself, along with four different roles that include a young college student and an 80-something grandmother. In the film, Jones and her characters travel from Los Angeles and Las Vegas across the country to New York City to navigate the sex industry’s relationship with race,...
- 7/26/2022
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Karen Gillan (Thor: Love and Thunder) will star opposite Margaret Sophie Stein (Bullets Over Broadway), Jermaine Fowler (Sorry to Bother You), Kevin Nealon (SNL) and Talia Balsam (Divorce) in the Lisa Steen-directed comedy Late Bloomers from We’re Doin’ Great and Park Pictures, which has wrapped production in Brooklyn, NY.
The film written by Anna Greenfield is loosely based on her experience living in Brooklyn in her 20s. It centers on Louise (Gillan), an aimless millennial who drunkenly breaks her hip, landing her in physical therapy. There, she makes an elderly Polish Bff (Stein) who speaks no English. And it’s this unlikely friendship that gives her the courage to face what she’s been running from all along: Her mother’s early-onset Alzheimer’s. Fowler plays Louise’s Craigslist roommate/landlord Brick, with Nealon and Balsam as her parents.
Late Bloomers marks the feature directorial debut of Greenfield’s frequent collaborator,...
The film written by Anna Greenfield is loosely based on her experience living in Brooklyn in her 20s. It centers on Louise (Gillan), an aimless millennial who drunkenly breaks her hip, landing her in physical therapy. There, she makes an elderly Polish Bff (Stein) who speaks no English. And it’s this unlikely friendship that gives her the courage to face what she’s been running from all along: Her mother’s early-onset Alzheimer’s. Fowler plays Louise’s Craigslist roommate/landlord Brick, with Nealon and Balsam as her parents.
Late Bloomers marks the feature directorial debut of Greenfield’s frequent collaborator,...
- 7/14/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Blumhouse is coming on board Beth de Araújo’s SXSW debut Soft & Quiet, which is making its festival premiere in the narrative feature competition on Saturday.
CAA Media Finance and Blumhouse are selling the feature at SXSW.
The movie is writer-director Araújo’s feature length debut, and as part of the agreement, the film will be branded a Blumhouse feature.
The thriller, which plays out in real time, follows a single afternoon in the life of an elementary school teacher as she organizes a mixer of like-minded women. When the group heads home, the teacher encounters a woman from her past, leading to a volatile chain of events.
“I’m thrilled Jason and the Blumhouse team responded so strongly to Soft & Quiet. They are such a recognizable and trusted brand for audiences,” Araújo said. “Blumhouse has consistently put out films that are daring and resonate with viewers.
CAA Media Finance and Blumhouse are selling the feature at SXSW.
The movie is writer-director Araújo’s feature length debut, and as part of the agreement, the film will be branded a Blumhouse feature.
The thriller, which plays out in real time, follows a single afternoon in the life of an elementary school teacher as she organizes a mixer of like-minded women. When the group heads home, the teacher encounters a woman from her past, leading to a volatile chain of events.
“I’m thrilled Jason and the Blumhouse team responded so strongly to Soft & Quiet. They are such a recognizable and trusted brand for audiences,” Araújo said. “Blumhouse has consistently put out films that are daring and resonate with viewers.
- 3/8/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Films Boutique has scooped world sales rights to Max Walker-Silverman’s “A Love Song” which is set to world premiere at Sundance and has also been selected for the Berlinale Panorama section.
“A Love Song” stars Dale Dickey (“Winter’s Bone”) and Wes Studi (“The Last of the Mohicans”) who won the Academy Honorary Award in 2020.
Penned and directed by Max Walker-Silverman, “A Love Song” unfolds at an idyllic campsite in the Colorado Mountains, where a woman, Faye, spends her days listening to birds, catching crawfish from the lake, and scanning her old radio for a station. But most of all, Faye is waiting for Lito, a childhood sweetheart she hasn’t seen in decades. “A Love Song” is lushly lensed by Alfonso Herrera Salcedo (“El hoyo en la cerca”).
“I consider ‘A Love Song’ a piece of my home, and so it’s a particular pleasure to partner with Films...
“A Love Song” stars Dale Dickey (“Winter’s Bone”) and Wes Studi (“The Last of the Mohicans”) who won the Academy Honorary Award in 2020.
Penned and directed by Max Walker-Silverman, “A Love Song” unfolds at an idyllic campsite in the Colorado Mountains, where a woman, Faye, spends her days listening to birds, catching crawfish from the lake, and scanning her old radio for a station. But most of all, Faye is waiting for Lito, a childhood sweetheart she hasn’t seen in decades. “A Love Song” is lushly lensed by Alfonso Herrera Salcedo (“El hoyo en la cerca”).
“I consider ‘A Love Song’ a piece of my home, and so it’s a particular pleasure to partner with Films...
- 1/14/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Sarah Jones is about to take a look at the world of the sex industry from a different angle. The Tony Award winner is set to make her feature directorial debut with the documentary Sell/Buy/Date which is based on her 2016 Off Broadway stage production of the same name. The docu explores how the sex industry sits at the intersection of race, feminism, power and economics in our current cultural climate. Joining Jones in this project are Rashida Jones, Meryl Streep and Laverne Cox who will serve as executive producers
Sell/Buy/Date tackles themes of inequality of criminal justice, race, sexism and poverty through the lens of the debate around the sex industry. The docu presents the question: “Is sex work exploitative or empowering?” The sex industry is hiding everywhere in plain sight during the pandemic, and impacting Black and brown women in particular. Many people support sex...
Sell/Buy/Date tackles themes of inequality of criminal justice, race, sexism and poverty through the lens of the debate around the sex industry. The docu presents the question: “Is sex work exploitative or empowering?” The sex industry is hiding everywhere in plain sight during the pandemic, and impacting Black and brown women in particular. Many people support sex...
- 1/5/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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