Exclusive: Sundance Selects plans Dec 4 release theatrically and on demand.
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Orion: The Man Who Would Be King, the feature documentary written and directed by Jeanie Finlay.
The film tells the story of Jimmy Ellis, “an unknown singer plucked from obscurity and thrust into the spotlight as part of a crazy scheme that had him masquerade as Elvis back from the grave”.
The film, which had its world premiere at Tribeca and won the Grand Jury Prize in Nashville, will be released theatrically and on demand on Dec 4.
Producers are Dewi Gregory and Finlay, with executive producers Al Morrow, Suzanne Alizart, Kate Townsend, Nick Fraser, Hannah Thomas, Richard Holmes, John Tobin, Andy Copping and Alexander Preston.
Production companies are Glimmer Films, Truth Department and Met Film, and the film’s supporters include Creative England, Ffilm Cymru Wales, BBC Storyville and Broadway.
Finlay, a former Screen Star of Tomorrow, previously directed...
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Orion: The Man Who Would Be King, the feature documentary written and directed by Jeanie Finlay.
The film tells the story of Jimmy Ellis, “an unknown singer plucked from obscurity and thrust into the spotlight as part of a crazy scheme that had him masquerade as Elvis back from the grave”.
The film, which had its world premiere at Tribeca and won the Grand Jury Prize in Nashville, will be released theatrically and on demand on Dec 4.
Producers are Dewi Gregory and Finlay, with executive producers Al Morrow, Suzanne Alizart, Kate Townsend, Nick Fraser, Hannah Thomas, Richard Holmes, John Tobin, Andy Copping and Alexander Preston.
Production companies are Glimmer Films, Truth Department and Met Film, and the film’s supporters include Creative England, Ffilm Cymru Wales, BBC Storyville and Broadway.
Finlay, a former Screen Star of Tomorrow, previously directed...
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- ScreenDaily
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- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Premiering tonight, November 27 at midnight on IFC Free’s Video on Demand channel, Jeanie (Teenland) Finlay’s Goth Cruise follows the annual event in which 150 Goths—young and old, American and British—set sail to the last place you’d expect: the Caribbean. Focusing on 14 of the vacationers, Goth Cruise sets out to be an in-depth look at the subculture.
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What Finlay finds is a remarkably diverse, welcoming, open-minded group, one that is ultimately made up of people with similar desires and jobs to the rest of the world. It’s just that sometimes, their desires involve more leather.
At 17, northeast England native Finlay was the epitome of Goth and had planned to stay that way, until, she believed, she grew out of it. Recently, she attended the wedding of an old friend who still embodied that spirit and, as Finlay describes, “was a vision in black, channeling Morticia Addams.
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