Condom Counterculture: Grace Van Patten Pilots Hanna Gray Organschi’s ‘Rubber Hut’

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One of the rare Sundance Institute promoted projects that participated in all three Sundance Labs (Screenwriters, Directors, and Producers) filmmaker Hanna Gray Organschi has landed the heroine for her feature debut. Deadline reports that Grace Van Patten is attached to topline Rubber Hut for what will be a summer shoot which means it has a legit chance at grabbing a competition spot for the upcoming 2027 Sundance Film Festival edition. Willa’s Elizabeth Woodward and Stone Fruit Productions’ Tara Sheffer are producing. Indie vets Anne Carey and Jason Michael Berman will be exec producing. We had the chance to speak to the filmmaker fresh from the Screenwriter’s Lab – we thought of Alexander Payne type vibes when reading about the project on paper. Here is the synopsis:

Rhode Island, 1992. Entrepreneurial ex–Pan Am stewardess Emanuella DelVecchio (Grace Van Patten) opens a drive-thru condom shop in her Italian Catholic town, and overnight becomes a lightning rod in the community—a radical hero to local teens, an unlikely threat to her tight-knit neighbors, and the center of a cultural stir that challenges tradition and sparks unexpected reactions.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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