Tessa Thompson & Marwan Kenzari To Star In Fencing Thriller ‘Balestra’; Mister Smith, EC & CAA To Launch Sales — Cannes

follows a competitive fencer at the end of her career who is desperate to be the world’s best. In order to gain an edge, she pursues an experimental technology, allowing her to train via lucid dreaming, where she begins a tumultuous affair with her instructor that threatens her real world marriage and her pathway to Olympic gold.The film is being produced by Pierre Even . Also serving as executive producers will be Aron Eli Coleite Bad Education.

Screenplay was written by Imran Zaidi based on an original story by Aron Eli Coleite. Director of photography will be Christophe Collette and production designer is Jean-François Campeau. Currently in pre-production, start of principal photography will be dated between talent’s current commitments. Mister Smith is handling international sales while Endeavor Content and CAA Media Finance will rep domestic.explores, the conception of this piece is sharp and riveting – its is a fascinating look at the price of winning, and what trouble dreams can become when our sense of self worth, reality and identity are tethered too tightly to them. To embark on this journey, both in front of the lens and behind it, with Nicole Dorsey and this phenomenal team is a dream to me – a most beautiful one.

Dorsey added: “To be working alongside the incredibly gifted and perceptive Tessa Thompson on this psychological thriller, ripe with themes of obsession, desire, prestige and fluctuating realities is quite literally a director’s filmic dream.” Thompson is represented by WME, Mosaic, and Jackoway Austen, Tyerman, Wertheimer, Mandelbaum, Morris, Bernstein, Trattner & Klein. Kenzari is represented by ICM Partners and Nummer19 Management. Dorsey is repped by CAA, Grandview, and Morris, Yorn, Barnes, Levine, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner & Gellma. Zaidi is represented by UTA and Grandview. Coleite is repped by Grandview and Jackoway, Austen Tyerman ,Wertheimer.

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