Sundance: ‘The Starling Girl’ Sells to Bleecker Street (EXCLUSIVE)

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Bleecker Street has acquired Laurel Parmet’s feature directorial debut “The Starling Girl,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Last November, Parmet was …

Bleecker Street will release the film theatrically later this year. The deal is for North American rights.

The film was a hit with critics. IndieWire’s David Ehrlich described the film as a “sensitive and devilishly detailed coming-of-age drama,” while the Guardian’s Adrian Horton praised Scanlen, writing that she “steals the spotlight.” “The Starling Girl” joins a slew of films that sold in a surprisingly healthy and varied Sundance sales market. Top sellers included “Fair Play,” an electric study on gender and status which went to Netflix, and “Flora and Son” at Apple. Both went for $20 million. Ira Sachs’s “Passages,” the satirical romp “Theater Camp,” and the towering family drama “A Little Prayer” all went for mid-to-low seven figures.

 

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Simply wonderful film!! I did a short review in my Sundance coverage.

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