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EXCLUSIVE: Coming-of-age romanticist characteristic An Autumn Summer, starring Lukita Maxwell and Mark McKenna, has been acquired by Blue Harbor Entertainment.
Maxwell is known for appearing successful Apple TV bid Shrinking and A24’s upcoming movie Backrooms. McKenna’s credits see YouTube Premium original bid Wayne and movie philharmonic Sing Street.
The movie tracks Kevin (played by McKenna) and Cody (Maxwell), a young mates spending their past period earlier going distant to assemblage successful a lakeside municipality successful Michigan.
Jared Isaac wrote and directed An Autumn Summer, which had a well-received show run. The movie will premiere successful Chicago connected April 23 astatine nan Music Box Theatre. A Q&A pinch Isaac aft nan screening will beryllium moderated by filmmaker Joe Swanberg, known for directing mumblecore titles for illustration Hannah Takes nan Stairs.
A theatrical merchandise is planned for May 1, pinch a integer rollout pursuing a period aft that. The movie world premiered astatine nan Heartland Film Festival successful 2024 and went connected to person a well-received tally connected nan show circuit, collecting a number of awards and assemblage prizes.
Blue Harbor, which launched successful 2023, is led by manufacture veterans Amanda Sherwin, Mike Messina and Seth Needle. The trio each held elder exec posts astatine Screen Media, leaving earlier it dissolved successful 2024. Blue Harbor’s slate frankincense acold has included character-driven indie titles for illustration A Nice Indian Boy and Audrey’s Children, based connected nan life of Dr. Audrey Evans.
Isaac said of An Autumn Story, “The communicative is real, nan spot is real, and it’s a emotion I’ve wanted to vessel up and return pinch maine wherever I am. It’s axenic and uncynical, unapologetically romantic. It’s astir nan fewer individuals who enactment pinch america forever, whether we’re conscious of it aliases not.”
The Blue Harbor exec squad said successful a statement, “We emotion moving connected find films for illustration this, and our exemplary is built to springiness filmmakers nan support and entree they request to genuinely beryllium discovered by audiences.”
The film’s head of photography is Brandon Somerhalder, whose activity connected The Queen of Basketball won nan Academy Award for Best Documentary Short successful 2022, and whose 2026 documentary Come See Me successful nan Good Light received an Academy Award information for Best Documentary Feature. An Autumn Summer is his only communicative characteristic to date.
The movie is produced by JohnPaul Morris, Becky Boggs, Zach Aries and Isaac, and is executive produced by Joshua D. Rogers.
