Producer-director Zoe Quist has cast Judd Nelson, Jonathan Bennett, Daniel Ponickly and Antoinette Kalaj to play the leads in her upcoming Mining For Ruby.
Daniel Ponickly wrote the screenplay about a widower who falls for an environmental science student with a troubled past.
Production is set to commence this month in Alaska. Lock & Monkey Productions principals Quist, Daniel Ponickly and Daniel Lawrence Abrams produce while William St Pierre and Maya Salganek serve as executive producers.
“Tackling such hot-button topics like clinical depression and environmental activism in a romantic drama is immensely challenging,” said Quist. “But with this talented cast and thoughtful script I feel that our movie will really resonate with indie film audiences,”...
Daniel Ponickly wrote the screenplay about a widower who falls for an environmental science student with a troubled past.
Production is set to commence this month in Alaska. Lock & Monkey Productions principals Quist, Daniel Ponickly and Daniel Lawrence Abrams produce while William St Pierre and Maya Salganek serve as executive producers.
“Tackling such hot-button topics like clinical depression and environmental activism in a romantic drama is immensely challenging,” said Quist. “But with this talented cast and thoughtful script I feel that our movie will really resonate with indie film audiences,”...
- 6/3/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Chinonye Chukwu’s debut feature-film alaskaLand premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival and recently also played at the 21st Philadelphia Film Festival.
After several screenings at Pff I found time to sit down with Chinonye and chat about her film and working on a tight timeframe.
Neal Dhand: At the Q&A you mentioned that the script is partially autobiographical. Can you talk more about its genesis?
Chinonye Chukwu: From conception to completion the script took 4 months. It was just me and a really good friend of mine who’s a screenwriter. I’m writing draft after draft and he’s just annihilating it for four really intense months.
I had production mind while I was writing, so I was writing according to the resources that I had. Plot-wise it’s largely not autobiographical. I wanted to intentionally do that.
There are obvious parallels. My father’s a petroleum engineer.
After several screenings at Pff I found time to sit down with Chinonye and chat about her film and working on a tight timeframe.
Neal Dhand: At the Q&A you mentioned that the script is partially autobiographical. Can you talk more about its genesis?
Chinonye Chukwu: From conception to completion the script took 4 months. It was just me and a really good friend of mine who’s a screenwriter. I’m writing draft after draft and he’s just annihilating it for four really intense months.
I had production mind while I was writing, so I was writing according to the resources that I had. Plot-wise it’s largely not autobiographical. I wanted to intentionally do that.
There are obvious parallels. My father’s a petroleum engineer.
- 10/31/2012
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
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