Exclusive: Mitzi Peirone, the Italian writer-director whose debut feature Braid premiered this year in the Midnight section of the Tribeca Film Festival, has signed with ICM Partners. The news comes the same day Blue Fox Entertainment acquired worldwide rights to the psychological thriller, which will now be aimed at an early 2019 theatrical release.
Blue Fox will also shop international rights to Braid at next month’s Toronto Film Festival.
Madeline Brewer (The Handmaid’s Tale), Imogen Waterhouse (Nocturnal Animals), Sarah Hay (Flesh and Blood) and Scott Cohen (The 10th Kingdom) star in the film, about a pair of drug dealers (Waterhouse and Hay) who seek refuge inside the mansion of their mentally unstable friend (Brewer). The three begin to engage in an elaborate and increasingly dangerous game of permanent make-believe.
Peirone is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and NYU Scps in Screenwriting. Her first directorial short...
Blue Fox will also shop international rights to Braid at next month’s Toronto Film Festival.
Madeline Brewer (The Handmaid’s Tale), Imogen Waterhouse (Nocturnal Animals), Sarah Hay (Flesh and Blood) and Scott Cohen (The 10th Kingdom) star in the film, about a pair of drug dealers (Waterhouse and Hay) who seek refuge inside the mansion of their mentally unstable friend (Brewer). The three begin to engage in an elaborate and increasingly dangerous game of permanent make-believe.
Peirone is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and NYU Scps in Screenwriting. Her first directorial short...
- 8/22/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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