In the latest deal from Sundance Bleecker Street has acquired North American rights to Laurel Parmet’s feature debut The Starling Girl.
Eliza Scanlen, Lewis Pullman, Jimmi Simpson, Wrenn Schmidt and Austin Abrams star in the story about the sexual awakening of a teenager girl in a fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky. It premiered in US Dramatic Competition.
Bleecker Street plans a theatrical release this year and negotiated the deal with and UTA Independent Film Group and WME Independent on behalf of the filmmakers.
Kevin Rowe and Kara Durrett served as producers, while the executive producers include Jessamine Burgum, Will Greenfield, Douglas Choi, Martina Bassenger, Chris Stolte, Heidi Stolte, William Reedy, Emily Reedy and David Hinojosa.
The Starling Girl joins a 2023 slate from Bleecker Street that features a number of female-identifying filmmakers including Frances O’Connor’s Emily out this month. Later in the year, Bleecker will release Catherine Hardwicke’s Mafia Mamma, Alice Troughton’s The Tutor, as well as Meg Ryan’s first feature film in eight years, What Happens Later.
The company will also debut Guy Nattiv’s Golda starring Helen Mirren in Berlinale this month.
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