FilmNation, Bleecker Street Partner on Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry Film ‘Treasure’

FilmNation Enjoyment and Bleecker Street will certainly partner on Prize, the brand-new dramatization from German supervisor Julia von Heinz (And Tomorrow the Entire Globe) starring Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry as dad and little girl. Both firms will certainly co-distribute the film with each other in the united state and collectively deal with around the world sales.

Embed in the 1990s, Prize is adjusted from Lily Brett’s very popular autobiographical unique Way too many Males. Dunham plays Ruth, an aberrant businesswoman that takes her dad Edek (Fry), a charmingly persistent Holocaust survivor, on a journey via Poland to understand her family members’s past. Zbigniew Zamachowski (3 Color styles franchise business) co-stars. Prize will certainly have its opening night as a Berlinale Unique testing at the Berlin Film Event following month and FilmNation and Bleecker will certainly begin sales talk with global purchasers at Berlin’s European Film Market.

Von Heinz is best recognized for her political dramatization And Tomorrow the Entire Globe, which evaluated in Toronto and Venice in 2020 and was Germany’s main Oscar competitor. She adjusted Brett’s unique for the display along with her And Tomorrow the Entire Globe co-writer John Quester.

FilmNation and Bleecker Street most lately partnered on Diane Paulus and Brett Sullivan’s Waitress: The Music, yet Prize will certainly be the very first film they will collectively launch in the united state.

The film is generated by Fabian Gasmia and Von Heinz under their 7 Elephants banner, and Dunham under her Good ideas Going banner. FilmNation’s Glen Basner and Ben Browning and Bleecker Street’s Andrew Karpen and Kent Sanderson are executive manufacturers, along with Advantage Going’s Michael Cohen.

Dunham is stood for by CAA, ID Public Relations, and Hansen, Jacobson, Bank Employee, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Thrill, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & & Fox. Fry is stood for by CAA in the United States and Hamilton Hodell in the UK. von Heinz is stood for by CAA in the United States and Athletes Agentur Monitoring in Germany.