WestEnd Films has acquired worldwide rights to UK writer-director Virginia Gilbert’s second feature Reawakening, about a couple whose daughter reappears after going missing a decade earlier aged just 14.
It will introduce the film to buyers at next month’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Jared Harris, Juliet Stephenson and Erin Doherty star in the film which has just wrapped following a UK shoot. It is produced by Gilbert and Barry Castagnola’s Rustle Up Productions, with Jared Harris and Lucette Walters’ Little Light Films as executive producers.
“Virginia wrote a powerful, dramatic story full of suspense,” said Maya Amsellem, managing director of WestEnd Films. “We are hugely excited by the talents attached and we are excited to share Reawakening with our worldwide distributors.”
Gilbert, a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2008, has previously directed the Bafta-nominated short film Hesitation, and the forthcoming Home, starring Max Irons and Loveproof. The latter two were both produced by Rustle Up. Her first feature was A Long Way From Home in 2013.
”Jared, Juliet and Erin have delivered outstanding performances and I look forward to shaping the film and creating a world where no one’s motives are quite what they seem,” said Gilbert. ” I’m delighted to be working with WestEnd on this – from their first enthusiastic response to the script to their continued support of the film’s evolution, they’re already proving to be great partners.”
The company is also developing a comedy thriller with Greg Davies and Leslie Jones, as a co-production with AGC, and a feature with the acclaimed Blaine Brothers.
WestEnd Films’ slate also includes Freud’s Last Session, starring Anthony Hopkins, Nobody’s Heart, with Edgar Ramírez and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, thriller Out Of The Blue, starring Diane Kruger, revenge thriller Uncle with Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Marjane Satrapi’s feature doc Afghanistan: Enter The Dragons, Pierce Brosnan-starrer The Rifleman, and Cottontail, produced by Gabrielle Tana.
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