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The Reluctant Fundamentalist Completed - August 26th 2013 Release - IFC Films Based on the novel by Mohsin Hamid A Princeton graduate from Pakistan, Changez, succeeds on Wall Street, thriving in his adopted city. A thriller unfolds as the political events of the millennium test his allegiances and Changez is forced to choose — a country, a way of life, where he belongs. "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" is a collision of the personal and the political — when there is nothing left to lose, which side are you on? More |
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Cutie and The Boxer Completed - Fall 2013 Release - RADiUS TWC Director: Zachary Heinzerling
Cutie and The Boxer is a love story chronicling a unique and chaotic forty-year relationship in New York where survival intersects with ambition, identity and the creative process. |
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DABBA (“THE LUNCHBOX”) In Post Production - International Sales: The Match Factory Writer/Director: Ritesh Batra A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an old man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality. |
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Music Is The Weapon: Development: Focus Features Human activist, sexual revolutionary, and political maverick. One of the most controversial musicians of the 20th century, Fela Kuti was the king of Afro-beat, a fusion of jazz, funk, psychedelic rock, and Yoruba chants and rhythms. Taking on Nigeria’s rapidly changing and often corrupt country in the ‘70’s, Fela’s legacy as a charismatic visionary continues to inspire the contemporary hip-hop world, and generations of artists who believe in the power of music as a weapon. More |
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The Sisterhood of Night In Post Production Based on the short story by Steven Millhauser A small New Jersey town is plunged into controversy when a teenage girl exposes a secret society of girls. Members of The Sisterhood hold their vow of silence, even as the community begins to believe the worst. Why are these girls willing to risk so much just for a nighttime gathering in the woods? The Sisterhood of Night chronicles three girls' unique and provocative alternative to the loneliness of adolescence and the digital abyss.More |
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Untitled Norman Mailer Project
Writers: Stephen Schiff, Oren Moverman In 1980, the American literary giant Norman Mailer champions the prison release of Jack Abbott, a self-educated intellectual with a brilliant mind — albeit a convicted murderer. While writing his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “The Executioner's Song,” Mailer receives a series of letters from Jack and is inspired and intrigued by his unique literary voice. Mailer moreover finds Abbott's story compelling- a man born into the world with the odds set against him, a true victim of the system. |
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The Red Rose Crew Writer: Christine Mckeever In 1975, eight remarkable American women, ages 16 to 34, defy expectations and take Silver at the World Rowing Championships — an important step on the road to the 1976 Olympics, where women's rowing would appear for the first time. Battling years of underfunding, underestimation and flat-out prejudice, these women came together to make a mark on the world. |
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Diamond Based on: "Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, And Margie Richard's Fight To Save Her Town" by Ronnie Greene The black townsfolk of Diamond, Louisiana are church-going, hard-working, honest people. They are also sick, dying, injured by explosions and fires. Living on a former plantation in the shadow of a Shell Oil refinery, helplessness consumes their hope. When Peace Core worker and Louisiana native, Ann Rolfes, brings forward her stories of Shell’s shocking abuses in Nigeria — she and Diamond resident Margie Richard join forces to bring Diamond’s story to an international platform and stand up against the corporation and its environmental crimes. |
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