2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jessica Manafort’s Rosy

The daughter of former Trump campaign chairman proposes an anti-Stockholm Syndrome with her NYC set, kidnapping thriller Rosy. Lensing began in November of 2015 on her long awaited sophomore feature, before that Jessica Manafort directed a trio of shorts and the feature Remember the Daze (2007). This time out she employs a youthful cast of Nat Wolff, Stacy Martin, Sky Ferreira and helmer/actor Alex Karpovsky with a score signed Danny Bensi/Saunder Jurriaans (Amanda Knox) and cinematography by Zach Galler (Collective: Unconscious). Sundance once had Alpha Dog in their ranks, perhaps this is a fit as well.

Gist: Wolff plays Doug, a lonely guy who kidnaps a struggling actress named Rosy (Stacy Martin). Plans go awry as she proves more difficult for him to handle than ever expected.

Production Co./Producers: Super Crispy Entertainment’s Jonathan Schwartz (Imperial Dreams).

Prediction: U.S. Dramatic Comp.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international)

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