A Great Divide, a anti-Asian racism drama that stars Ken Jeong, Jae Suh Park and Emerson Min, is set to open the competitive program for Geena Davis’ Bentonville Film Festival, running June 13-18.
The feature directorial debut of Emmy-winning commercial and short film director Jean Shim, which also star Miya Cech in a lead role, will get a world premiere during the ninth edition of the Bentonville, Arkansas festival. A Great Divide follows a Korean-American family that leaves the Bay Area for a fresh start in rural Wyoming after experiencing a devastating loss.
Also getting a first look at Bentonville is director R. J. Daniel Hanna’s Hard Miles, which dramatizes the true story of a youth prison social worker who took a cycling team comprising teenage inmates on a transformative 1,000-mile ride. The film, written by Hanna and Christian Sander, stars Matthew Modine, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Jahking Guillory, Jackson Kelly,...
The feature directorial debut of Emmy-winning commercial and short film director Jean Shim, which also star Miya Cech in a lead role, will get a world premiere during the ninth edition of the Bentonville, Arkansas festival. A Great Divide follows a Korean-American family that leaves the Bay Area for a fresh start in rural Wyoming after experiencing a devastating loss.
Also getting a first look at Bentonville is director R. J. Daniel Hanna’s Hard Miles, which dramatizes the true story of a youth prison social worker who took a cycling team comprising teenage inmates on a transformative 1,000-mile ride. The film, written by Hanna and Christian Sander, stars Matthew Modine, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Jahking Guillory, Jackson Kelly,...
- 5/9/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Cranked Up Films has acquired North American rights to the comedy The Country Club starring John Higgins of SNL trio Please Don’t Destroy, with Archstone Entertainment taking foreign rights. The film marking the directorial debut of Fiona Robert, who also stars, is set for release in June.
The Country Club centers on two young women (real-life sisters Fiona Robert and Sophia Robert) who hatch a plan to win a junior golf tournament prize at a prestigious Hamptons country club. But once they encounter the quirky, wealthy patrons at the club, they are thrust on an adventure of mistaken identity, love, and finding friendship in the most unlikely of people.
Fiona and Sophia Robert also wrote and produced the pic under their Robert Sisters Pictures banner, with Judith Robert, Janet Robert, Tom Kapacinskas, Jack Sheehan, Scott Martin and Michael Slifkin serving as exec producers. James Urbaniak (The Fabelmans) and...
The Country Club centers on two young women (real-life sisters Fiona Robert and Sophia Robert) who hatch a plan to win a junior golf tournament prize at a prestigious Hamptons country club. But once they encounter the quirky, wealthy patrons at the club, they are thrust on an adventure of mistaken identity, love, and finding friendship in the most unlikely of people.
Fiona and Sophia Robert also wrote and produced the pic under their Robert Sisters Pictures banner, with Judith Robert, Janet Robert, Tom Kapacinskas, Jack Sheehan, Scott Martin and Michael Slifkin serving as exec producers. James Urbaniak (The Fabelmans) and...
- 3/17/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Elaine Hendrix, best remembered for her role in 1998 The Parent Trap remake and FX’s Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll series, has signed on to star in The Country Club, along with James Urbaniak, Akono Dixon, John Higgins (NYC based sketch group Please Don’t Destroy) Fiona Robert, and Sophia Robert (Poor Little Rich Kids). First-time director Fiona is at the helm, directing from a screenplay she co-wrote with Sophia. The two are also producing the project under their Robert Sisters Pictures label. It’s described as a farcical golf comedy about teens competing in a junior tournament. Filming is currently underway. Hendrix, who plays Fanny Kowalski, a wealthy mother trying to keep up appearances at the club after her husband fled the country for tax evasion, is repped by Innovative Artists, McKeon/Myones Entertainment,...
- 9/25/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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