Roost

Source: TIFF

Roost

Andrew Herwitz’s The Film Sales Company (FSC) has acquired worldwide sales rights to Amy Redford TIFF thriller Roost.

The film gets its public world premiere on September 15 after press & industry screenings on September 9 and 11 and centres on a teenager who meets a man online masquerading as someone younger than his years. Scott Organ wrote the screenplay.

Grace Van Dien, who plays Chrissy in Season 4 of Stranger Things and is the great-granddaughter of Robert Mitchum, stars alongside Summer Phoenix, another actor from a distinguished cinema family.

Redford, the daughter of Robert Redford who made her directing debut on The Guitar in 2008, produced with Eden Wurmfeld and Lynda Weinman.

FSC president Herwitz brokered the deal with Wurmfeld.