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Thinkfilm finds Helen Hunt’s directing debut

I'm not sure how these first look deals work out, but TH!NKFilm has reteamed with Killer Films on Helen Hunt's directing debut.

It hasn't received much buzz since here at TIFF, but Then She Found Me looks to satisfy the older crowds – based on the Elinor Lipman novel, Hunt plays a schoolteacher found by her birth mother (Midler) during a tumultuous time in her life. Broderick is playing Hunt's husband, and Firth a man she meets through one of her students.

ThinkFilm picked up the film around $2 million, with an additional $1 million coming from Canadian distrib TVA Films.

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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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