Exclusive: U.S. producer duo Marisa Vitali and Claire McClanahan are launching production company Emergent Pictures and have signed Heidi Greensmith (Winter) to direct their first feature film, Carbon.
Emergent’s McClanahan wrote the script as her feature film debut and will produce the drama under the Emergent Pictures banner alongside Vitali. Casting is currently underway on the project which follows a mother who, unable to accept her daughter’s sudden death, attempts to clone her daughter and carry the clone to term.
Greensmith’s debut feature film Winter, starring Tommy Flanagan and Tom Payne, played at festivals including Palm Springs and the New York City International Film Festival where it won four awards.
Emergent Pictures will have bases in La and New York. It will focus on developing and producing stories for an international audience and wants to promote diversity and emerging filmmakers.
Carbon’s script has featured in...
Emergent’s McClanahan wrote the script as her feature film debut and will produce the drama under the Emergent Pictures banner alongside Vitali. Casting is currently underway on the project which follows a mother who, unable to accept her daughter’s sudden death, attempts to clone her daughter and carry the clone to term.
Greensmith’s debut feature film Winter, starring Tommy Flanagan and Tom Payne, played at festivals including Palm Springs and the New York City International Film Festival where it won four awards.
Emergent Pictures will have bases in La and New York. It will focus on developing and producing stories for an international audience and wants to promote diversity and emerging filmmakers.
Carbon’s script has featured in...
- 2/26/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
With submissions ranging from countries like Italy and Nepal to as short as several minutes to feature length films, every aspect of storytelling has been covered within the 2015 Soho International Film Festival . It only seems fitting that the festival wraps up its sixth annual festival with a number of prominent presenters including The Avengers’ Robert Clohessy and Rescue Me’s James McCaffrey. With awards given to the best of the best at the festival, it was a great close to another successful year for the festival.
There was an even greater presence among the jurors of the festival, with people have worked as actors on shows like Dexter to writers and directors having worked on films like On Golden Years. The jurors included Emmy Award nominee journalist and educator Ernabel Demillo, or ABC Network Casting Head Marci Phillips. David Zayas, an actor on Gotham and Donna McKenna, a casting director and producer,...
There was an even greater presence among the jurors of the festival, with people have worked as actors on shows like Dexter to writers and directors having worked on films like On Golden Years. The jurors included Emmy Award nominee journalist and educator Ernabel Demillo, or ABC Network Casting Head Marci Phillips. David Zayas, an actor on Gotham and Donna McKenna, a casting director and producer,...
- 1/21/2016
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
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