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SPC makes it 2 for 2 in 2 with Jonathan Demme

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.

 

 

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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).

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