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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #54. Sean Baker’s Starlet

His cinema-verité styled aesthetic demonstrated in 2004’s Take Out and more recently, the well-traveled Prince of Broadway (2009) makes Sean Baker’s POV better than Google’s streetview. When it comes to detailing the microcosms, his docu-treament will most certainly aid in detailing one young adults journey into the seedy world of porn. Could be a break-out role for Dree Hemingway (yes that family).

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#54. Starlet

Director: Sean Baker
Writer(s): Baker and Chris Bergoch
Producers: Blake Ashman, Kevin Chinoy, Patrick Cunningham, Chris Maybach, Francesca Silvestri
Distributor: Rights Available

Sean Baker Starlet

The Gist: This explores the unlikely friendship between Jane (Dree Hemingway), a twenty-one year old free spirit, and Sadie (Besedka Johnson) an eighty-five year old recluse – both living in the San Fernando Valley…(more)

Cast: Dree Hemingway (left in pic above), Besedka Johnson and James Ransone

List Worthy Reasons…: His cinema-verité styled aesthetic demonstrated in 2004’s Take Out and more recently, the well-traveled Prince of Broadway (2009) makes Sean Baker’s POV better than Google’s streetview. When it comes to detailing the microcosms, his docu-treament will most certainly aid in detailing one young adults journey into the seedy world of porn. Could be a break-out role for Dree Hemingway (yes that family).

Release Date/Status?: Currently in the editing stages, this should be ready midway in 2012 allowing for a wealth of film festival possibilities.

 
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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).

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