Ira Sachs’ “Little Men” co-lead signs with 3 Arts – Sundance January 25, 2016 - 14:26 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - One young man’s Sundance Film Festival is gaining some nice traction even before the film he’s in opens. A day before Little Men makes its Park City debut, co-lead Michael Barbieri has signed with 3 Arts Entertainment, Deadline learned. The NYC-based film from Sundance alum Ira Sachs is the feature debut of the just turned 14-years old Barbieri. Little Men premieres at the Eccles Theatre on Monday evening for the first of its six screenings at the fest. With gentrification as a larger theme, the film focuses on two best friend boys who become pawns in a lease battle between their parents. Barbieri Theo Taplitz co-stars as the sensitive Jake to Barbieir’s seemingly fearless Tony. Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Ehle play Jake’s parents while Paulina Garcia is Tony’s Mom. Like he did in Love Is Strange and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner Forty Shades of Blue, Sachs also makes NYC itself a character in the drama WME is handling sales of Little Men.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Court in Azerbaijan extends former Karabakh leader’s arrest by 5 months  The Binagadi District Court in Azerbaijan has granted the prosecutor’s petition to extend the arrest of Arkady Ghukasyan.Ucom General Director joins High-Tech Development Panel Discussion The discussion was titled "The Role of International Corporations and Investors as Catalysts for Development of High-Tech Ecosystem."U.S. still believes “peace is possible” between Armenia, Azerbaijan The United States continues to believe that peace is possible between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Vedant Patel says.Dozens detained as antigovernment protest continue in Armenia At least 63 people demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation were detained on May 14 as they blocked streets in Yerevan. |
