Actor and producer Benjamin Bratt has joined the Oscar hopeful documentary short “Wings of Dust” as executive producer.
The “Poker Face” star boards the project with his brother Peter Bratt and Alpita Patel, all under their production banner 5 Stick Films. “Wings of Dust” took the 2023 gold medal at the Student Academy Awards, telling the story of a Peruvian indigenous journalist who risks his life to protect the natural resources of ancestral lands.
The film was directed by Italian-born Giorgio Ghiotto, who just completed journalism school at NYU.
“Giorgio has a keen sensibility about emotional truth. The film left me truly devastated and ultimately inspired to help bring attention to what is largely a global issue,” Bratt told Variety.
The subject of “Wings of Dust” is Vidal Merma, a journalist seeking to combat a new threat from multinational mining companies. Both Ghiotto and Merma were on hand to accept the Student Academy Award this year.
The “Poker Face” star boards the project with his brother Peter Bratt and Alpita Patel, all under their production banner 5 Stick Films. “Wings of Dust” took the 2023 gold medal at the Student Academy Awards, telling the story of a Peruvian indigenous journalist who risks his life to protect the natural resources of ancestral lands.
The film was directed by Italian-born Giorgio Ghiotto, who just completed journalism school at NYU.
“Giorgio has a keen sensibility about emotional truth. The film left me truly devastated and ultimately inspired to help bring attention to what is largely a global issue,” Bratt told Variety.
The subject of “Wings of Dust” is Vidal Merma, a journalist seeking to combat a new threat from multinational mining companies. Both Ghiotto and Merma were on hand to accept the Student Academy Award this year.
- 12/18/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Kat Taylor & Tom Steyer’s TomKat MeDiA has unveiled its slate of social justice-themed projects for 2022. The multi-platform media company has secured rights to Duff Wilson’s eco-thriller Fateful Harvest and Aaron Bobrow-Strain’s award-winning work of narrative non-fiction, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, with plans to develop both as feature films.
Based on a Seattle Times investigative series reported by Wilson that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Fateful Harvest is the riveting account of an alarming environmental scandal. Published in 2001, the book tells the story of Patty Martin — the mayor of a small Washington town called Quincy — who discovers American industries are dumping toxic waste into farmers’ fields and home gardens by labeling it “fertilizer.” She becomes outraged at the contaminated soil, failed crops, dead horses, and fatal, rare diseases in her town, as well as the direct threat to her own children’s health.
Based on a Seattle Times investigative series reported by Wilson that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Fateful Harvest is the riveting account of an alarming environmental scandal. Published in 2001, the book tells the story of Patty Martin — the mayor of a small Washington town called Quincy — who discovers American industries are dumping toxic waste into farmers’ fields and home gardens by labeling it “fertilizer.” She becomes outraged at the contaminated soil, failed crops, dead horses, and fatal, rare diseases in her town, as well as the direct threat to her own children’s health.
- 8/3/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Hannah Simone and Elizabeth Hurley have been cast in the lead roles of the untitled CBS comedy pilot from Corinne Kingsbury, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein, Variety has learned. Both women will also serve as producers on the show in addition to starring.
In the show, when Penelope’s (Simone) career takes off at exactly the same time as her husband Josh’s (not yet cast), they call on Penelope’s young single mom, Georgia (Hurley), to help raise their son, but what they find is Georgia needs more raising than their kid.
Penelope is further described as a smart, hard-working producer at a sports TV network, wife to airline pilot Josh, and mother of their challenging toddler, Levi. Georgia is said to be in her late 40s but looks and acts much younger. Fun-loving and a bit immature, she doesn’t have the best judgment, especially when it comes to men.
In the show, when Penelope’s (Simone) career takes off at exactly the same time as her husband Josh’s (not yet cast), they call on Penelope’s young single mom, Georgia (Hurley), to help raise their son, but what they find is Georgia needs more raising than their kid.
Penelope is further described as a smart, hard-working producer at a sports TV network, wife to airline pilot Josh, and mother of their challenging toddler, Levi. Georgia is said to be in her late 40s but looks and acts much younger. Fun-loving and a bit immature, she doesn’t have the best judgment, especially when it comes to men.
- 3/5/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
New Girl alumna Hannah Simone and The Royals‘ Elizabeth Hurley have been tapped as the leads a CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot from Fam and In the Dark creator Corinne Kingsbury, Spider-Man: Homecoming writers John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, Trill TV, Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Simone and Hurley will also serve as producers on the pilot, which vetrean multi-cam director Pam Fryman is set to direct and executive produce.
The semi-autobiographical comedy is about a daughter and her mom. When Penelope’s (Simone) career takes off at exactly the same time as her husband’s, they call on Penelope’s young single mom, Georgia comes to help and turns her well-ordered world upside down.
Hurley’s Georgia is fun-loving and a bit immature; she doesn’t have the best judgment, especially when it comes to men. Georgia had Penelope when she was 17, and although she was a warm and loving single mom, their roles have reversed a bit now that Penelope is an adult. When Georgia becomes the babysitter to Penelope’s toddler, she might get a chance to redeem herself, but then again chaos tends to follow her.
Kingsbury co-wrote the script with her husband, Daley, and his writing partner, Goldstein. The three executive produce with Fryman, Kapital Entertainment’s Kaplan and Dana Honor and TrillTV’s Trilling.
Simone, who has been in demand since she came off her seven-year run on New Girl, starred in back-to-back pilots for ABC, the Untitled Hannah Simone project, which she also co-created and executive produced, and Greatest American Hero. Simone is repped by UTA, Alpita Patel Management and Ziffren Brittenham.
Hurley recently played Morgan le Fay in Season 3 of Marvel’s Runaways on Hulu. Previously, she starred as Queen Helena in the E! series The Royals and recurred on the CW’s Gossip Girl. On the film side, Hurley appeared opposite Gerard Depardieu in Viktor. She is repped by UTA.
The semi-autobiographical comedy is about a daughter and her mom. When Penelope’s (Simone) career takes off at exactly the same time as her husband’s, they call on Penelope’s young single mom, Georgia comes to help and turns her well-ordered world upside down.
Hurley’s Georgia is fun-loving and a bit immature; she doesn’t have the best judgment, especially when it comes to men. Georgia had Penelope when she was 17, and although she was a warm and loving single mom, their roles have reversed a bit now that Penelope is an adult. When Georgia becomes the babysitter to Penelope’s toddler, she might get a chance to redeem herself, but then again chaos tends to follow her.
Kingsbury co-wrote the script with her husband, Daley, and his writing partner, Goldstein. The three executive produce with Fryman, Kapital Entertainment’s Kaplan and Dana Honor and TrillTV’s Trilling.
Simone, who has been in demand since she came off her seven-year run on New Girl, starred in back-to-back pilots for ABC, the Untitled Hannah Simone project, which she also co-created and executive produced, and Greatest American Hero. Simone is repped by UTA, Alpita Patel Management and Ziffren Brittenham.
Hurley recently played Morgan le Fay in Season 3 of Marvel’s Runaways on Hulu. Previously, she starred as Queen Helena in the E! series The Royals and recurred on the CW’s Gossip Girl. On the film side, Hurley appeared opposite Gerard Depardieu in Viktor. She is repped by UTA.
- 3/5/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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