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Pastors Join ‘Strange’ Project

The Pastors are attached to direct the project mounted by GreeneStreet Films and Civil Dawn Pictures’ Ross Katz and Fred Berger.

Eric Lavallée

Published on October 20, 2009

Nice to see that filmmaking brother duo David and Alex Pastor haven’t been eradicated from business – their first feature film made less than 100 grand at the box office – Paramount Vantage pulled Carriers after one week in theaters. The Pastors are attached to direct the project mounted by GreeneStreet Films and Civil Dawn Pictures’ Ross Katz and Fred Berger.

Strange, but True is based on John Searles’ offbeat mystery novel that begins when a teenager’s girlfriend arrives at his family’s home five years after his death insisting that she is pregnant with his child. Sort of sounds like Shana Feste’ The Greatest put without the shrouded in mystery component. Eric Garcia penned the screenplay. David Pastor mentioned to Variety that the screenplay has elements of Fargo and A Simple Plan. Bring out the winter shoot I say. Coincidently shooting would begin in February/March.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).