Top movie execs close in on deal for film shot in Forsyth MO

by KY3 News, Variety, LA Times and IFC

Story Published: Jan 26, 2010 at 6:40 AM CST

Story Updated: Jan 26, 2010 at 6:10 PM CST

A movie shot in Forsyth and featuring local actors is getting high praise at the Sundance Movie Festival and may attract a buyer on Tuesday.

The Ozarks based Creative Actors Workshop traveled to Utah with several local actors for the premiere. The group uploaded plenty of videos and photos to our shared flicker page www.flickr.com/photos/46486271@N05/

Variety reports, "other Sundance titles getting a serious look by indie distributors include director Debra Granik's drama "Winter's Bone," one of the sleeper hits at this year's Sundance. The movie stars Jennifer Lawrence. At least four buyers are holding discussions with the film's reps, and the second screening on Tuesday morning is expected to be heavily attended by top execs who didn't see the premiere on Saturday." www.variety.com/article/VR1118014269.html

The LA Times wrote, "There are plenty of movies at this year's Sundance film festival that take audiences into new and unexpected places -- the gangster underworld of Melbourne, Australia, in "Animal Kingdom," drug-running Hasssidic Jews in "Holy Rollers" -- but no Park City offering transports viewers to as distinctive and haunting a place as director Debra Granik's "Winter's Bone," which some Sundance patrons have called the best movie in the festival so far."
latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/01/there-are-plenty-of-movies-at-this-years-sundance-film-festival-that-take-audiences-into-new-and-unexpected-places---th.html

IFC writes, "Based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, "Winter's Bone" has more than just the echoes of other films to offer, though. It has the forward motion of a thriller, yes, and the who-knows-what questions of a mystery. But it also has a delicacy to it, as 17-year-old Ree (Jennifer Lawrence) searches for her absent father while caring for her younger siblings and ill mother."
www.ifc.com/blogs/indie-eye/2010/01/winters-bone.php

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