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EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award nominee June Squibb (Eleanor nan Great) is group to prima other Emmy victor Alex Borstein in Turn nan Lights Back On, an indie dramedy that we announced successful June.
Based connected existent events and inspired by experiences galore families faced during nan Covid era, Turn nan Lights Back On centers connected a family forced to face decades of unresolved tensions while facing an unprecedented infinitesimal successful modern history. The film, marking nan characteristic debut of writer-director Dave Pantano, is described arsenic being successful nan tone of titles specified as Little Miss Sunshine, August: Osage County and The Brothers McMullen.
Borstein plays Emma, an exhausted simple schoolhouse coach grappling pinch perimenopause, family responsibility, and nan intolerable determination to spot her aging mother into assisted surviving conscionable arsenic nan world originates to unopen down.
Squibb will play Emma’s mother Mary, a female clinging to immoderate feelings of power successful her life that she tin arsenic she ages, her faculties decline, and her dementia worsens.
Producers on Turn nan Lights Back On include Dino Maglaris, Harrison Chiu, and Addie Scott Irwin of Salado Pictures, positive Borstein and Marni Rosenzweig of The Rosenzweig Group.
Oscar-nominated for her activity successful Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, Squibb precocious garnered captious acclaim for her activity successful nan indies Eleanor nan Great, directed by Scarlett Johansson, and Thelma from Josh Margolin. Up next, she’ll besides beryllium seen successful nan 4th and last play of Showtime’s Yellowjackets. She is repped by BRS/Gage.
