EXCLUSIVE: HBO Films has signed a deal for the US rights to the title from the Berlin Film Festival’s Buzz competition reality. The docudrama, directed by Tina Satter, is an escape for Sydney Sweeney as a convicted undercover doctor let Reality winner. Sweeney stars in the hit HBO series Euphoria.
Pic is not yet dated for its HBO premiere, but it will be in the near future, surely in time to qualify for an Emmy and capitalize on the critical acclaim the film just received in Berlin. Sweeney’s performance was praised in almost every review.
Reality Winner (her real first name) grew up in Texas and worked her way through the Air Force to become a translator for the NSA. She was employed by the military company Pluribus International Corporation when she was arrested at the age of 25 and eventually convicted of leaking an intelligence report to the news website The Intercept about Russian interference in the 2016 election. She received the longest sentence for leaking unauthorized government information to the media, with five years and three months in prison.
Using transcripts of Winner’s FBI interrogation as evidence in her subsequent trial, New York director Satter first produced that transcript—without embellishment—into a critically acclaimed play of the title. is it a room in 2019. This was the basis for this hybrid docudrama.
The film is produced by Noah Stahl, Brad Becker-Parton, Riva Marker and Greg Nobile. Executive producers are Ellyn Daniels, Will O’Connor, Daniel Ginsberg, Andrew Beck, Bill Way, Elliott Whitton, Eva Maria Daniels, Philipp Engelhorn, Caitlin Gold and Satter. David Duque-Estrada and Rita Walsh co-produced.
The film is a Seaview and 2 SQ FT production in association with productions from Burn These Words, In The Cut, Fit Via Vi, Cinereach and Tanbark Pictures.
The deal was brokered by UTA Independent Film Group and WME Independent.
Finance, production and distribution are handled legally by Eugene Pikulin at 3B Law.
Source: Deadline
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