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Greed is Good: Broad Street Pictures Makes “Equity” Stake in Meera Menon

Published on March 19, 2015

Under their newly minted Broad Street Pictures label, Sarah Megan Thomas and Alysia Reiner will both star in and produce Equity, the sophomore feature from up-and-comer helmer Meera Menon. Variety reports that this first foray, billed as a female in power suits take of Wall Street, will begin lensing in New York and Philadelphia in July. After premiering at the 2013 TriBeCa Film Festival, Menon will see her feature, award-winning debut Farah Goes Bang receive its theatrical release next month.

Gist: Written by Amy Fox, this follows an investment banker who is threatened by a financial scandal and must untangle a web of corruption.

Worth Noting: Coming from a film background, Menon has worked as a curator for contemporary film and video art festivals in Paris, Miami, and New York.

Do We Care?: Among the buzz title items at TriBeCa Film Fest circa 2013, THR described her road movie debut as “re-energized with a gender switch and infusion of politics”.

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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).