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Freida Pinto joins Julian Schnabel ‘Miral’

The Cinderella story continues. Plucked from obscurity without any acting chops to her credit, the very easy on the eyes Freida Pinto has gone from Danny Boyle, to Woody Allen and has now landed an acting gig with Julian Schnabel. As previously reported, she is joining the excellent Hiam Abbas, Yasmine Elmasri, Alexander Siddig and Omar Metwally, the picture will start lensing on April 19th start, and should be ready for Cannes same time next year.

Eric Lavallée

Published on March 24, 2009

The Cinderella story continues. Plucked from obscurity without any acting chops to her credit, the very easy on the eyes Freida Pinto has gone from Danny Boyle, to Woody Allen and has now landed an acting gig with Julian Schnabel. As previously reported, she is joining the excellent Hiam Abbas, Yasmine Elmasri, Alexander Siddig and Omar Metwally, the picture will start lensing on April 19th start, and should be ready for Cannes same time next year.

Details are thin right now on what part the Slumdog Millionnaire star will play, but Miral (scripted by Schnabel) is an adaptation of Italo-Palestinian Rula Jebreal’s book about Hind Husseini who founded an orphanage in Jerusalem in the wake of the 1948 partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).