Athina Rachel Tsangari‘s The Harvest is still touring the film festival circuit which began with a competition slot at Venice Film Festival followed by showcases at TIFF, NYFF, Busan, BFI London and some recent additional stateside screenings at Chicago and the AFI Fest just yesterday. And though she typically keeps her upcoming film projects under wraps, she did provide some crumbs about what might be her next feature film – and it’ll feature an American actress who the filmmaker has admired and has been out of the game for a while now. So we should not be shocked if one day an obscure name or an Eva Mendez, Bridget Fonda, Mira Sorvino or Phoebe Cates type comes out of retirement to sign up with the Greek-American filmmaker. We also hope that for this first U.S. based project that cinematographer Sean Price Williams and Caleb Landry Jones are somehow involved.
In a recent interview, we explains that ….
Her planned next feature, currently in the script-development stage, will have a female protagonist. And if the project happens, it will mark a return to cinema of someone who has been off screen for several years. Tsangari did not reveal the name, but did say that her collaborator is “an American actor I’ve long admired and we’ve been developing this together.”
“It’s been an inspiring process of discussions and shared research between her and I for the past two years,” she added. “I normally re-write the script during the rehearsal stage, but in this case, the first draft is informed by our workshopping her character. I really hope it happens.”
Could this be White Knuckles? The screwball action thriller about two criminal sisters (a burglar and a bookkeeper) dealing with VAT fraud, amour fou, architectural infiltration, and electrically amplified fist fighting – and which was workshopped at the NYFF. One of my top ten films from Venice, surprisingly, The Harvest still does not have a distribution deal in place.
