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PROJECTS IN DISTRIBUTION
LAND OF DREAMS
Land of Dreams is a political satire written by the late, great Jean-Claude Carrière and Co-Directed by the iconic artist and Golden Lion filmmaker, Shirin Neshat and her partner Shoja Azari. Starring Matt Dillon, Shiela Vand, William Mosely, Isabella Rossellini, Christopher McDonald, Joaquim de Almeida, Anna Gunn, Robin Bartlett, Gaius Charles, Nicole Ansari Cox and Rebecca Comerford, Land of Dreams made its debut at the 78th Venice International Film Festival and has since received numerous accolades and recognition for it's unique and distinct contribution to Neshat's bold cannon of art and film.
It is currently distributed for worldwide audiences by Vertical Entertainment and Beta Cinema.
AMERIKATSI
AMERIKATSI is a story of a rarely told diaspora. And the telling of it, the quality, is equally rare and original. Beautifully designed, acted, directed, executed - it’s told with such subtlety and delicate emotion that you’ll find yourself moved in ways you’ll never see coming. You empathize with these characters, you end up sharing in their longing, and connecting to them in unexpected ways. It’s a transportive movie that connects you across time, culture, and ethnicity. Profoundly human and bursting with heart, and clearly, deeply personal. The film begins with such charm and seeming innocence, and by the end it was so convincing in its message of shared humanity, that it’s hard to reflect on it as anything but masterful. Nihilism and cynicism are easy bedfellows in today’s world, but Amerikatsi, without being saccharine and without any naïveté, refutes these - humbly, joyfully, and defiantly. - Grand Jury Statement, Woodstock Film Festival, 2022
Amerikatsi is an Armenian American co-production and was filmed entirely in Armenia during the Pandemic in 2020. Boasting an international cast including writer/director Michael Goorjian; Spanish star Hovik Keuchkerian; Russian actors Nelli Uvarova and Mikhail Trukhin; and an incredibly eclectic group of talented Armenians lead by Narine Grigoryan and Jeanne-Pier Nshanian, Amerikatsi is the story of repatration through one man's search for home and a sense of belonging. It has garnered numerous awards including the Grand Jury Prize for best picture and best cinematography at Woodstock Film Festival, Audience Award at the Hamburg Film Festival, Best Foreign Film Salerno, and is on track for theatrical distribution in late 2023.
IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
In The Eye Of The Storm is a six part documentary series about the life and work of the prolific economist/politician Yanis Varoufakis. Spanning several years the series focuses on Varoufakis' time as the Minister of Finance in Greece while he lead the charge for the country against the austerity measures brought against them in 2015. Directed by the visionary filmmaker, author and artist Raoul Martinez, (The Lottery of Birth), this project is a deep dive into the challenges our world faces today through an economic lens.
PROJECTS IN PRODUCTION
THE ALZHEIMER CODE
In 2000, after 40 years of research in the field or neuro-degenerative disorders, neurologist Dr. Dale Bredesen made promising discoveries in his approach to treating Alzheimer's disease which have forever changed his approach to treatment and defied almost all conventional standards of care. His multifaceted approach has been met with stiff opposition from many who would lose control of the money involved with this treatment and research, if his protocol is proven effective. The Alzheimer Code follows and explores the implementation of this so-called Bredesen Protocol, and the first large-scale clinical trials in North America and Europe claiming to reduce and reverse Alzheimers disease for good.
SHE CAME CALLING
She Came Calling is a supernatural thriller, operatic in scope, with elements of magical realism shaping the story. Part modern day myth and inspired by Greek tragedy, it sets out to explore the age-old dynamics of fate versus free will and questions how themes of feminine power throughout the ages have served as both curse and salvation for anyone identifying as female. Co-Written and Co-Directed by Rebecca Comerford and Sol Tryon, She Came Calling will be produced by Keagan Karnes and George Bennett of MEP Capital, with Shirin Neshat and Liz Destro, Executive Producers.
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
At the height of the great Depression, Alan Lomax and his father John choose to break the mold of American society by recording and producing the music of the first great Blues musician, Huddie Ledbetter, (aka Leadbelly). From his prison cell where they first recorded him, to the National Theatre in Washington DC, the three set out on a quest to change American music and society despite rampant racism, a crashing economy, and their own internal struggles.
Midnight Special is a musical biopic that explores the remarkable life of the original blues legend and the father and son team of Harvard educated musicologists who discovered him. It is a story of unlikely friendship in a daunting time; a story of loyalty and betrayal, racism and classicism, broken boundaries and dreams. It is ultimately a story of why blues music is American at it’s most raw and complicated.
NIGHTINGALE AND THE TOWER
Nightingale and the Tower (NATT) was originally conceived as an electronic, intergenerational chamber opera, co-written by Rebecca Comerford, Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco, Jason Trueting of Sō Percussion and Beth Meyers of Damsel, for members of the Metropolitan Opera and Ojai Youth Opera Company when it premiered in 2019. Since its inception, NATT has received critical acclaim and is in the process of being published to be performed by other opera companies around the world. Exploring the themes of technology and nature, the advent of the internet and AI on psyches of children, our rejection of individuality for conformity and how modern society is threading a fine balance between the two in order to survive, NATT's adaption to cinema is in new stages of development. Both an original libretto and score are being fused to an animated feature film that will reach audiences of children and adults alike; sharing a message of curiosity, wonder and wariness when encountering the vast lures of technology in the digital age.