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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Mariel Hemingway (Manhattan) and Sophia Adler (Harlan Coben’s Shelter) are group to prima successful Deborah Kampmeier’s upcoming independent characteristic drama, Holy Whore.
Filming is owed to get underway successful Mexico this summertime connected nan project, which marks a first characteristic successful six years for Kampmeier, nan filmmaker whose movies see Sundance pic Hounddog and Elisabeth Moss-starring Indie Spirit nominee Virgin.
Written and directed by Kampmeier, nan movie is described arsenic nan “true communicative of Carmine, a modern time courtesan. As nan communicative weaves past and coming we spot nan ways Carmine moves from adultery and supplier addiction into a treatment travel that leads her to go a activity therapist. Ultimately, she reclaims her vocation arsenic a activity worker arsenic her chosen way for treatment others.”
Hemingway will prima arsenic Carmine coming day, pinch Adler playing nan younger Carmine. Kampmeier will besides nutrient on pinch Iris Torres and Raye Dowell for Full Moon Films and Vicky Mara Story for Sunshine successful South Central.
Through her institution Full Moon Films, Kampmeier has written, directed and produced 4 features. The first, Virgin, starring Elisabeth Moss and Robin Wright, was nominated for 2 2004 Independent Spirit Awards, including nan John Cassavetes Award and Best Actress for Elisabeth Moss. Her 2nd feature, Hounddog, starring Dakota Fanning and Robin Wright, was nominated for nan Grand Jury Prize astatine nan 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Kampmeier’s 3rd feature, Split, won Best of Show astatine nan 2016 Female Eye Film Festival. Her 4th feature, Tape, starring Isabelle Fuhrman, was scheduled to unfastened successful theaters March 2020 but Covid prevented its theatrical release.
In caller years, she has been directing TV including aggregate episodes of bid including The Gilded Age, Outer Range, Harlan Coben’s Shelter and Star Trek: Picard.
Kampmeier said: “I’m willing successful nan complexity of sexuality and really intersexual unit informs that complexity. As a survivor, these are nan stories that compel me. Carmine is simply a profoundly inspirational personification for me, and for everyone who knows her. It’s an unthinkable grant to stock her journey. And what a dream to activity pinch Mariel and Sophia, some fearless actresses who bring a vulnerability and truth to their activity that will adhd a fierce and analyzable extent of humanity to this character.”
Hemingway added: “I’m excited to beryllium portion of Holy Whore because it approaches quality intimacy and relationship pinch honesty and compassion. What makes moving pinch Deborah Kampmeier truthful typical is that she brings a position that feels emotionally truthful and profoundly human. The movie isn’t willing successful easy judgments. It’s willing successful people, successful vulnerability, and successful nan quality betwixt really we’re perceived and what we really transportation inside.”
Hemingway’s movie credits see Manhattan, Personal Best, and The Contender. Adler’s credits see collaborating pinch Kampmeier connected Tape, arsenic good arsenic The Gilded Age and Star Trek: Picard.
Hemingway is repped by Insurge-Ent. Kampmeier is repped by IAG and Echo Lake Entertainment.
