Thandiwe Newton ventures to the frosted depths of the forest in IFC Films’ “God’s Country,” inspired by James Lee Burke’s short story “Winter Light.” In the film, Newton portrays Sandra Guidry, a college professor living in a rural town while grieving the recent loss of her mother. On the day of the funeral, Sandra finds a mysterious truck parked in her driveway that belongs to hunters looking to hunt on her property. Sandra is soon drawn into a battle of escalating wills in the Western-set thriller.
“God’s Country” is directed Julian Higgins, who co-wrote the screenplay with Shay Ogbonna. Jeremy Bobb, Joris Jarsky, Jefferson White, Kai Lennox, and Tanaya Beatty also star. The film first at 2022 Sundance Film Festival, and is produced by Miranda Bailey, Halee Bernard, Julian Higgins, and Amanda Marshall. Executive producers include Jason Beck and Anthony Ciardelli.
Director Higgins said in a press statement that he...
“God’s Country” is directed Julian Higgins, who co-wrote the screenplay with Shay Ogbonna. Jeremy Bobb, Joris Jarsky, Jefferson White, Kai Lennox, and Tanaya Beatty also star. The film first at 2022 Sundance Film Festival, and is produced by Miranda Bailey, Halee Bernard, Julian Higgins, and Amanda Marshall. Executive producers include Jason Beck and Anthony Ciardelli.
Director Higgins said in a press statement that he...
- 7/28/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Films Boutique and ICM Partners have launched sales on Jake Paltrow’s upcoming drama June Zero, with Films Boutique handling international rights and ICM overseeing distribution in North America.
Paltrow’s first foreign-language production explores true stories surrounding the execution of Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann in 1962 Israel, through three characters intimately involved in the nation-defining event: David, a precocious 13-year-old Libyan factory worker looking to belong; Haim, Eichmann’s main prison guard, tasked with protecting this dead man walking; and the Police Investigative officer of the Eichmann trial, Micha, on his first trip back to Poland since surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he tries to make sense of the future of the Jewish homeland’s soul post-execution.
Shot on Super-16mm film in Israel and Ukraine under strict Covid regulations, June Zero was written by Paltrow and Tom Shoval. Miranda Bailey (God’s Country), David Silber (Incitement) and Emmy winner Oren Moverman (Bad Education) produced,...
Paltrow’s first foreign-language production explores true stories surrounding the execution of Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann in 1962 Israel, through three characters intimately involved in the nation-defining event: David, a precocious 13-year-old Libyan factory worker looking to belong; Haim, Eichmann’s main prison guard, tasked with protecting this dead man walking; and the Police Investigative officer of the Eichmann trial, Micha, on his first trip back to Poland since surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he tries to make sense of the future of the Jewish homeland’s soul post-execution.
Shot on Super-16mm film in Israel and Ukraine under strict Covid regulations, June Zero was written by Paltrow and Tom Shoval. Miranda Bailey (God’s Country), David Silber (Incitement) and Emmy winner Oren Moverman (Bad Education) produced,...
- 3/9/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Jake Paltrow’s forthcoming feature film “June Zero” has been picked up for sales by ICM Partners in North America and Films Boutique for the rest of world.
Written by Paltrow and Tom Shoval, “June Zero” explores true stories surrounding the 1962 execution of Adolf Eichmann — one of the key architects of the Holocaust — in Israel through three characters intimately involved in the nation-defining event: David, a precocious thirteen-year-old Libyan factory worker looking to belong; Haim, Eichmann’s main prison guard, tasked with protecting this dead man walking; and the Police Investigative officer of the Eichmann trial, Micha, on his first trip back to Poland since surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau — where he tries to make sense of the future of the Jewish homeland’s soul post-execution.
“June Zero” was shot on Super-16mm film in Israel and Ukraine under strict Covid-19 regulations, and represents writer-director Paltrow’s first foreign language production. The filmmaker...
Written by Paltrow and Tom Shoval, “June Zero” explores true stories surrounding the 1962 execution of Adolf Eichmann — one of the key architects of the Holocaust — in Israel through three characters intimately involved in the nation-defining event: David, a precocious thirteen-year-old Libyan factory worker looking to belong; Haim, Eichmann’s main prison guard, tasked with protecting this dead man walking; and the Police Investigative officer of the Eichmann trial, Micha, on his first trip back to Poland since surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau — where he tries to make sense of the future of the Jewish homeland’s soul post-execution.
“June Zero” was shot on Super-16mm film in Israel and Ukraine under strict Covid-19 regulations, and represents writer-director Paltrow’s first foreign language production. The filmmaker...
- 3/9/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Julian Higgins, the writer, director and producer behind the Sundance breakout God’s Country, has signed with A3 Artists Agency for representation.
Higgins’ feature directorial debut, based on the short story “Winter’s Light” by James Lee Burke, is set in the snowy wilderness of the American West. In the character-driven thriller, BAFTA and Emmy winner Thandiwe Newton plays Sandra Guidry, a Black professor living and working in a rural college town who discovers a mysterious red truck parked in her driveway, and soon learns it belongs to a pair of local hunters seeking to enter the forest behind her house. Sandra turns them away politely but firmly – her experience tells her these are not the sort of men to welcome freely into her world. But they won’t take no for an answer, and soon Sandra finds herself drawn into an escalating battle of wills that puts...
Higgins’ feature directorial debut, based on the short story “Winter’s Light” by James Lee Burke, is set in the snowy wilderness of the American West. In the character-driven thriller, BAFTA and Emmy winner Thandiwe Newton plays Sandra Guidry, a Black professor living and working in a rural college town who discovers a mysterious red truck parked in her driveway, and soon learns it belongs to a pair of local hunters seeking to enter the forest behind her house. Sandra turns them away politely but firmly – her experience tells her these are not the sort of men to welcome freely into her world. But they won’t take no for an answer, and soon Sandra finds herself drawn into an escalating battle of wills that puts...
- 2/24/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: New York-based distributor FilmRise has acquired North American rights to completed sci-fi romance-drama The Time Capsule, starring Todd Grinnell (Hollywoodland), Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), Baron Vaughn (Grace And Frankie), KaDee Strickland (Private Practice) and Ravi Patel (Meet The Patels).
Erwann Marshall’s feature directorial debut, set in the near future, charts the story of a politician fresh off an electoral loss who escapes to his family’s summer lake house. His vacation is disrupted by the appearance of his first love, who has just returned from a 20-year space voyage and hasn’t aged a day.
The Landier Entertainment film was written by Chad Fifer and Erwann Marshall, produced by Amanda Marshall, and exec-produced by Michael Landier, with Dobré Films’ Ves D’Elia and Michael Klein also serving as executive producers.
The deal was negotiated by Katie Carroll, Manager, Independent Film Acquisitions for FilmRise, and Charlotte Lichtman, Agent, International and Independent Film for ICM Partners.
Erwann Marshall’s feature directorial debut, set in the near future, charts the story of a politician fresh off an electoral loss who escapes to his family’s summer lake house. His vacation is disrupted by the appearance of his first love, who has just returned from a 20-year space voyage and hasn’t aged a day.
The Landier Entertainment film was written by Chad Fifer and Erwann Marshall, produced by Amanda Marshall, and exec-produced by Michael Landier, with Dobré Films’ Ves D’Elia and Michael Klein also serving as executive producers.
The deal was negotiated by Katie Carroll, Manager, Independent Film Acquisitions for FilmRise, and Charlotte Lichtman, Agent, International and Independent Film for ICM Partners.
- 12/8/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Producers of the Spirit Awards, and non-profit arts organization, Film Independent, announced the five filmmakers and projects selected for their 21st annual producing Lab. The fellows will participate in a program set up to help develop their skills and further their careers by pairing them with a creative advisor who will advise on both the craft and business of independent producing.
The 2021 Producing Lab is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Producers Grant, a $30,000 grant to further develop a project that explores science and technology themes or characters in engaging and innovative ways, was awarded to Cecilia Otero with her project, Upstreamers. Additional support comes from the National Endowment for the Arts.
“We are thrilled to support this year’s talented cohort of Producers who are championing global stories that speak to the universal human experiences of ambition, redemption and connection.” said Angela C. Lee, Associate Director of Artist Development.
The 2021 Producing Lab is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Producers Grant, a $30,000 grant to further develop a project that explores science and technology themes or characters in engaging and innovative ways, was awarded to Cecilia Otero with her project, Upstreamers. Additional support comes from the National Endowment for the Arts.
“We are thrilled to support this year’s talented cohort of Producers who are championing global stories that speak to the universal human experiences of ambition, redemption and connection.” said Angela C. Lee, Associate Director of Artist Development.
- 10/22/2021
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Filming has begun on EastSiders creator Kit Williamson’s dark comedy series Unconventional, whose cast is being led by Kit Williamson (Mad Men), Aubrey Peeples (Nashville), James Bland (Giants) and Briana Venskus (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.).
Developed at The Sundance Lab, the series follows eccentric, queer siblings Noah and Margot Guillory (Williamson and Peeples) and their significant others Dan Charles and Elisa Slate (Bland and Venskus) as they try to start an unconventional family while navigating their thirties, trying to stay sane in an unstable world and, most importantly, trying to hold onto the bonds they share.
Series regulars also include Willam Belli (EastSiders), Constantine Rousouli (Charmed) Laith Ashley (Pose) and Dana Wheeler-Nicholson (Friday Night Lights). Wheeler-Nicholson plays Carolyn Guillory, the conservative matriarch of the family who leaves her home state of Texas after an unexpected tragedy to join her children in the California desert, where she is thrust into...
Developed at The Sundance Lab, the series follows eccentric, queer siblings Noah and Margot Guillory (Williamson and Peeples) and their significant others Dan Charles and Elisa Slate (Bland and Venskus) as they try to start an unconventional family while navigating their thirties, trying to stay sane in an unstable world and, most importantly, trying to hold onto the bonds they share.
Series regulars also include Willam Belli (EastSiders), Constantine Rousouli (Charmed) Laith Ashley (Pose) and Dana Wheeler-Nicholson (Friday Night Lights). Wheeler-Nicholson plays Carolyn Guillory, the conservative matriarch of the family who leaves her home state of Texas after an unexpected tragedy to join her children in the California desert, where she is thrust into...
- 8/18/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Kit Williamson, the creator-director-star of Netflix’s Emmy-nominated soap EastSiders, has set up his next project. He has teamed with indie film producer Cold Iron Pictures and indie distributor The Film Arcade along with financier The Money Pool on Unconventional, a dark LGBTQ comedy series that Williamson will write, direct and star in.
Unconventional centers on two eccentric, queer siblings and their significant others trying to start an unconventional family while navigating their 30s, trying to come to terms with their professional limitations in a screwed-up economy, trying to stay sane in a screwed-up world and, most importantly, trying to hold on to the bond they share.
A writers room opens this month on the series, which was developed at Sundance Labs, with the plan to pen nine half-hour episodes.
It marks the first foray into TV for Cold Iron Pictures (Swiss Army Man) and Film Arcade (The Amazing Johnathan...
Unconventional centers on two eccentric, queer siblings and their significant others trying to start an unconventional family while navigating their 30s, trying to come to terms with their professional limitations in a screwed-up economy, trying to stay sane in a screwed-up world and, most importantly, trying to hold on to the bond they share.
A writers room opens this month on the series, which was developed at Sundance Labs, with the plan to pen nine half-hour episodes.
It marks the first foray into TV for Cold Iron Pictures (Swiss Army Man) and Film Arcade (The Amazing Johnathan...
- 6/11/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Hulu has acquired the “Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary” following its premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival last week, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
The film follows a deranged magician who built his career out of shock and deception in the 1980s. He is diagnosed with a terminal heart condition and given one year to live, but three years later, Johnathan is still alive. The documentary chronicles his comeback tour.
Ben Berman directed the film. Berman, Miranda Bailey, Russell Groves, Amanda Marshall and Jacob Perlin are producers on the film, with Jason Beck, Kirk Johnson and Jon Mugar executive producing.
Also Read: 'Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary' Film Review: Portrait of Comic Goes Off the Rails, Then Changes Direction
Earlier this week, Hulu teamed up with Neon to acquire “Little Monsters” out of Sundance. The film stars Lupita Nyong’o and Josh Gad.
The deal was negotiated by...
The film follows a deranged magician who built his career out of shock and deception in the 1980s. He is diagnosed with a terminal heart condition and given one year to live, but three years later, Johnathan is still alive. The documentary chronicles his comeback tour.
Ben Berman directed the film. Berman, Miranda Bailey, Russell Groves, Amanda Marshall and Jacob Perlin are producers on the film, with Jason Beck, Kirk Johnson and Jon Mugar executive producing.
Also Read: 'Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary' Film Review: Portrait of Comic Goes Off the Rails, Then Changes Direction
Earlier this week, Hulu teamed up with Neon to acquire “Little Monsters” out of Sundance. The film stars Lupita Nyong’o and Josh Gad.
The deal was negotiated by...
- 1/30/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Hulu is on the verge of pulling off a neat trick: a deal sources place around $2 million for The Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary. The Ben Berman-directed film premiered last Friday at The Marc, competing in the U.S. Documentary Competition.
The film charts the changing journey for Berman after he began a docu called The Amazing Johnathan, about a uniquely deranged magician who built a career out of shock and deception in the 1980s. After Johnathan is diagnosed with a terminal heart condition and given one year to live, he’s forced to retire his act and Berman’s film seemed kaput. Three years later, Johnathan didn’t die, and Berman filmed the illusionist on an epic comeback tour. And then things happened that led the filmmaker to question what is truth and what is illusion.
Multiple suitors were in the mix.
Pic was produced by Cold Iron Pictures,...
The film charts the changing journey for Berman after he began a docu called The Amazing Johnathan, about a uniquely deranged magician who built a career out of shock and deception in the 1980s. After Johnathan is diagnosed with a terminal heart condition and given one year to live, he’s forced to retire his act and Berman’s film seemed kaput. Three years later, Johnathan didn’t die, and Berman filmed the illusionist on an epic comeback tour. And then things happened that led the filmmaker to question what is truth and what is illusion.
Multiple suitors were in the mix.
Pic was produced by Cold Iron Pictures,...
- 1/30/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Hulu has picked up the Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary for $2 million. The type of rights is not yet finalized, but it is expected to be worldwide.
The Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition title comes from TV director Ben Berman (Man Seeking Woman, Lady Dynamite) and follows a 1980s magician, once thought to be dying, on his comeback tour. As Berman discovers that telling Johnathan's story comes with unforeseen obstacles, the feature turns into a meta commentary on documentary filmmaking itself.
Berman also produced the feature, along with Miranda Bailey, Russell Groves, Amanda Marshall and Jacob Perlin. Jason Beck, Kirk ...
The Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition title comes from TV director Ben Berman (Man Seeking Woman, Lady Dynamite) and follows a 1980s magician, once thought to be dying, on his comeback tour. As Berman discovers that telling Johnathan's story comes with unforeseen obstacles, the feature turns into a meta commentary on documentary filmmaking itself.
Berman also produced the feature, along with Miranda Bailey, Russell Groves, Amanda Marshall and Jacob Perlin. Jason Beck, Kirk ...
- 1/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hulu has picked up the Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary for $2 million. The type of rights is not yet finalized, but it is expected to be worldwide.
The Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition title comes from TV director Ben Berman (Man Seeking Woman, Lady Dynamite) and follows a 1980s magician, once thought to be dying, on his comeback tour. As Berman discovers that telling Johnathan's story comes with unforeseen obstacles, the feature turns into a meta commentary on documentary filmmaking itself.
Berman also produced the feature, along with Miranda Bailey, Russell Groves, Amanda Marshall and Jacob Perlin. Jason Beck, Kirk ...
The Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition title comes from TV director Ben Berman (Man Seeking Woman, Lady Dynamite) and follows a 1980s magician, once thought to be dying, on his comeback tour. As Berman discovers that telling Johnathan's story comes with unforeseen obstacles, the feature turns into a meta commentary on documentary filmmaking itself.
Berman also produced the feature, along with Miranda Bailey, Russell Groves, Amanda Marshall and Jacob Perlin. Jason Beck, Kirk ...
- 1/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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