The Match Factory has acquired the international sales rights to American cinematographer and filmmaker Sean Price Williams’ directorial debut. The Sweet East ahead of its world premiere at Directors’ Fortnight in May.
Written by film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton, the film is described as a prankster’s journey through the cities and forests of the East Coast of the United States, undertaken by Lillian, a high school student in South Carolina, who gets her first glimpse of the vastness throw world on a school trip to Washington, DC
Separated from her classmates, she embarks on a broken fairy-tale journey to America, where she gains access to a variety of strange factions that spread the current unreality of modern life.
Williams’ credits as a cinematographer include those of Owen Kline funny sides (2022), Abel Ferrara zeros and ones (2021), by Michael Almereyda Tesla (2020), Alex Ross Perrys your scent (2018) and the Safdis good time (2017).
The film is one of three American indie titles included in the selections at Cannes Parallel Section Directors’ Fortnight, which the lineup announced on Tuesday.
“The Sweet East is not something we have seen lately. Sean Price Williams’ unparalleled style is reflected in his unique debut film – we can’t wait to share it with the world,” said Thania Dimitrakopoulou, head of acquisitions and sales at The Match Factory.
The cast includes Talia Ryder (Revenge, Never Rarely Sometimes Always), Simon Rex (Red rocket), Earl Cave (The School of Good and Evil), Jacob Elordi (euphoria, Deep water), Jeremy O. Harris (Emily in Paris), Ayo Edebiri (The bear), Rish Shah (Revenge).
The film will be produced by Marathon Films and Base 12, who will handle North American sales along with The Match Factory.
The Sweet East complete The Match Factory’s 2023 series in Cannes with four championship titles perfect days by Wim Wenders fallen leaves by Aki Kaurismaki, La Chimera by Alice Rohrwacher and kidnapped by Marco Bellocchio.
Source: Deadline
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