After announcing their commitment to his most recent project Dancing With Shiva, Sony Pictures Classic have picked up Jonathan Demme's most recent docu project which will preem at both the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals.
With the participation of Participant Productions, Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains saw Demme and his crew follow Carter across the U.S., through red states and blue, to bookstores and talk shows and Wal-Marts, as he undertakes a book tour for his new tome, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” At the same time, Carter, who has written more than 20 books, will speak about how to achieve peace in the Mideast and his lifelong philosophy of human compassion.We can expect a 2008 release for this doc.
Demme (and Herzog also comes to mind) is the sort of director that dips into fiction and then goes back to documentary filmaking. Here are his last 4 features/docs.
