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Sundance Film Festival Deals: PARIAH

Article: Sundance Film Festival Deals: PARIAH

Posted January 28th, 2011, 6:01 PM by

Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to PARIAH, Dee Rees’ coming-of-age film about a lesbian teenager in Brooklyn struggling to find her identity and a sense of belonging, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. (The film was executive produced by Spike Lee.) The deal, reportedly under $1 million,…

James Schamus on Hamlet 2: So What?

Article: James Schamus on Hamlet 2: So What?

Posted January 16th, 2009, 2:01 PM by

Focusfeatures CEO James Schamus is a tad late to the Festival this year due to a bug. But what’s really bugging him is the amount of prognosticating about sales and the state of film financing that goes on in advance of the event. “We have layered over the possibility of any new experience we might have with this ongoing discourse,” he laments.

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