Indie starlet Chloë Sevigny, veteran Josh Lucas and Mud discovery Jacob Lofland have joined the already mentioned Elizabeth Banks and Boyd Holbrook in Sara Colangelo’s feature directing debut. We’ve been tracking the filmmaker who made a splash at Sundance with the short of the same name in 2010, and since followed that up with workshopping screenwriting and directing labs. Production on Little Accidents has begun in West Virginia, the army of producers include Anne Carey of Archer Gray Productions, Jason Michael Berman and Thomas B. Fore of TideRock Media, and Summer Shelton with executive producers creds going to Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus of Maiden Voyage, Amy Nauiokas of Archer Gray Productions, Ruth Mutch of Soaring Flight Productions, and Kwesi Collisson, Mike Feuer and Todd Feuer of Mindsmack Productions.
Gist: Set in a small American coal-mining town left devastated by a mining accident that killed 12 men, story explores tragedy and redemption through the intersecting lives of three people — the lone survivor (Holbrook), a mourning mother and 14 year-old boy with a secret of his own.
Worth Noting: Colangelo was featured among the new talents in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces list – 2010.
Do We Care?: We like dramatic, small town tragedies (e.g. this year’s Bluebird) and of course this comes with tremendous indie cache. It’ll be an item high up on our must see from new filmmakers list for next year.
