A24 is closing on Eva Victor’s Sundance hit Sorry, Child, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed on Sunday.
Victor’s movie — which she wrote, directed and starred in — tells the story of a faculty professor recovering from sexual assault. Per the logline, “One thing dangerous occurred to Agnes. However life goes on… for everybody round her, not less than.”
A24 famous that bidding was an extremely aggressive state of affairs, however that the studio is closing on buying worldwide rights to the film. The ultimate price ticket continues to be unknown.
Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi and Kelly McCormack co-star, with Moonlight‘s Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak as producers. The film took house Sundance’s Waldo Salt Award for Screenwriting, and earned a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. THR’s Jon Frosch referred to as it “a profitable, at occasions strikingly robust big-screen debut.”
The movie additionally landed on THR‘s listing of 15 greatest films out of this 12 months’s Sundance, the place Frosch continued: “The movie positions Victor as a triple menace, with a particular, totally fashioned voice mixing irony and earnestness to beguiling impact.”
Kiva Reardon and Myriam Schroeter co-produced. Govt producers embody Tim Headington, Lia Buman, Ana Leocha, Neil Shah, Alex Orlovsky, Duncan Montgomery, Jack Selby, Rick Covert, Michael B. Clark, Tim Foley, Alex Turtletaub, Catalina Rojter, Frank Ariza, Carole Baraton, Pauline Boucheny Pinon.
UTA Unbiased Movie Group structured the financing and negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.
Sorry, Child is a Tango, Excessive Frequency Leisure, Massive Seaside presentation of a Pastel manufacturing, in affiliation with Charades Prods., Case Research and AF Movies & Productions, S.L. Victor is repped by CAA, Administration 360 and Felker Toczek.