EXCLUSIVE: Dawn Movies has set a Might 9 theatrical launch for the Freddy Macdonald thriller Sew Torn starring Eve Connolly, John Lynch and Calum Worthy. The film made its world premiere at SXSW final 12 months. A NYC and LA launch is deliberate adopted by a nationwide launch.
In Sew Torn, Barbara Duggen, ‘The Cellular Seamstress’, is struggling to maintain her cloth store alive. After a botched stitching appointment units her on a quest to interchange her consumer’s misplaced button, she unexpectedly stumbles upon a drug deal gone unhealthy. Confronted with two downed motorcyclists, weapons, and a briefcase – Barbara is totally torn. She is pressured to choose between three decisions: commit the right crime, name the police, or drive away. The narrative presents the repercussions of all three choices, and the lethal confrontations that end result from every as she will get entangled with the case’s proprietor. Utilizing thread to free herself, Barbara stops at nothing to save lots of her retailer.
Deadline’s Damon Clever praised the movie, saying “Freddy Macdonald’s Unusual, Hanging Neo-Noir Is A Nice Discovery,” “A neo-noir within the early Coens custom, Sew Torn additionally contains a daring tri-part construction by which the heroine, Barbara (Eve Connolly) — like Lola earlier than her in Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run…”
Macdonald additionally co-wrote. Okay Callan (Knives Out) and Caroline Goodall (Schindler’s Listing) additionally star. Macdonald is a Scholar Academy Award winner, and the youngest Directing Fellow ever accepted to the AFI Conservatory. His AFI admission movie, Sew Torn (the quick movie of the identical identify), was govt produced by Peter Spears (Nomadland, Name Me By Your Identify) and was acquired by Searchlight Footage. It additionally obtained a theatrical launch nationwide enjoying in entrance of Prepared Or Not. Freddy’s AFI thesis movie, Shedding Angels, received a Scholar Academy Award and was shortlisted for a scholar BAFTA.
“I’m past excited to see Sew Torn headed to theaters with the help of Dawn Movies. Their perception on this challenge means the world to me. It’s a dream come true to look at the characteristic take the identical theatrical path because the quick movie that impressed it,” Macdonald tells Deadline.
Dawn Movies’ Andrew Nerger states, “We’re delighted to deliver Sew Torn to theaters on Might ninth. It’s a daring, ingenious movie and we will’t await viewers to expertise its splendidly artful technique of storytelling.”
Producers on the movie included Macdonald, Barry Navidi, Sebastian Klinger, Diamantis Zavitsanos and Socrates Zavitsanos. Macdonald is represented by UTA’s Wealthy Klubeck, Amanda Hymson, and Dante DeSario.
Dawn Movies acquired the film for North America from UTA on behalf of the filmmakers. Sister label Vertigo Releasing beforehand acquired the UK & Eire rights from the movie’s worldwide gross sales agent The Playmaker Munich.
