Carol Polakoff, a two-time Directors Guild of America award winner, is teaming with “Exodus” producer Denise O’Dell to adapt to the big screen “Speak Sunlight,” American writer Alan Jolis’ much-loved memoir.
Now in pre-production and scheduled to shoot from May 8, the high-profile title is produced by Madrid-based Babieka Films, most recently behind Netflix hit “The Paramedic,” and L.A.’s Viewfinder Pictures.
“Speak Sunlight” (“La Voz del Sol”) marks the directorial debut of journalist-screenwriter Polakoff whose curriculum includes two DGA wins and three Daytime Emmy Awards nominations for “ABC Afterschool Specials.” Most recently, Polakoff produced Daniel Rosenberg’s 2020 Cannes Official Selection title “The Death of Cinema and My Father Too,” which won a Cannes Label for making the cut in Thierry Frémaux’s First Features category.
To film in Spanish, with a smattering of French, “Speak Sunlight” is written by Polakoff with a Spanish version from Natxo López, a creator...
Now in pre-production and scheduled to shoot from May 8, the high-profile title is produced by Madrid-based Babieka Films, most recently behind Netflix hit “The Paramedic,” and L.A.’s Viewfinder Pictures.
“Speak Sunlight” (“La Voz del Sol”) marks the directorial debut of journalist-screenwriter Polakoff whose curriculum includes two DGA wins and three Daytime Emmy Awards nominations for “ABC Afterschool Specials.” Most recently, Polakoff produced Daniel Rosenberg’s 2020 Cannes Official Selection title “The Death of Cinema and My Father Too,” which won a Cannes Label for making the cut in Thierry Frémaux’s First Features category.
To film in Spanish, with a smattering of French, “Speak Sunlight” is written by Polakoff with a Spanish version from Natxo López, a creator...
- 3/16/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson, Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson and Pauletta Washington have joined Iervolino Entertainment’s star-studded anthology project “Tell It Like a Woman.”
The trio will take on “Pepcy & Kim,” one of the anthology’s seven segments. Henson has signed on to direct the piece, which is inspired by the true story of Kim Carter, a former addict who has used her story and her nonprofit, the Time for Change Foundation, to help homeless women and children break the cycle and reclaim their lives.
Hudson is set to star in the segment, playing both Pepcy and Kim, opposite Washington. The segment is written by Catherine Hardwicke.
“Pepcy & Kim” completes the puzzle for the “Tell It Like a Woman” project, a film made by and about women, comprised of seven segments that make one intertwining feature film. Hardwicke, Cara Delevingne, Margherita Buy, Marcia Gay Harden, Eva Longoria, Leonor Varela,...
The trio will take on “Pepcy & Kim,” one of the anthology’s seven segments. Henson has signed on to direct the piece, which is inspired by the true story of Kim Carter, a former addict who has used her story and her nonprofit, the Time for Change Foundation, to help homeless women and children break the cycle and reclaim their lives.
Hudson is set to star in the segment, playing both Pepcy and Kim, opposite Washington. The segment is written by Catherine Hardwicke.
“Pepcy & Kim” completes the puzzle for the “Tell It Like a Woman” project, a film made by and about women, comprised of seven segments that make one intertwining feature film. Hardwicke, Cara Delevingne, Margherita Buy, Marcia Gay Harden, Eva Longoria, Leonor Varela,...
- 6/28/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Cara Delevingne, Eva Longoria, Margherita Buy, Marcia Gay Harden, Leonor Varela and Jacqueline Fernandez are among the all-star cast for anthology feature Women’s Stories, whose segments will be directed by filmmakers including Catherine Hardwicke.
The film will be comprised of six segments directed by female directors from different parts of the world, shot in Italy, India and the U.S. They will range in genre from drama to comedy, docu-drama to animation. Cast will be all female.
The first four segments have been mapped out: Unspoken will be directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi and star decorated Italian actress Margherita Buy (My Mother), the seven-time David di Donatello award-winner; Lagonegro will be directed by Lucia Puenzo (La Jauria) and star Desperate Housewives and Overboard actress Longoria; Elbows Deep will be directed by Twilight filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke and star model and actress Delevingne (Suicide Squad), Oscar-winner Marcia...
The film will be comprised of six segments directed by female directors from different parts of the world, shot in Italy, India and the U.S. They will range in genre from drama to comedy, docu-drama to animation. Cast will be all female.
The first four segments have been mapped out: Unspoken will be directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi and star decorated Italian actress Margherita Buy (My Mother), the seven-time David di Donatello award-winner; Lagonegro will be directed by Lucia Puenzo (La Jauria) and star Desperate Housewives and Overboard actress Longoria; Elbows Deep will be directed by Twilight filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke and star model and actress Delevingne (Suicide Squad), Oscar-winner Marcia...
- 1/25/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Spanish production house Babieka Films is teaming with L.A.-based Viewfinder Pictures to co-produce a feature adaptation of Alan Jolis’ book “Speak Sunlight” (“La voz del sol”), the directorial debut of journalist-screenwriter-producer Carol Polakoff.
A coming-of-age story set in Paris and Pamplona during the Franco regime, the Spanish-language “Speak Sunlight” will begin production next spring in Navarre.
Polakoff, winner of two Directors Guild of America awards, has a producer’s credit on Dani Rosemberg’s Cannes Official Selection title “The Death of Cinema and My Father Too,” featuring in Thierry Frémaux’s First Features category.
Top Spanish TV scribe Natxo López, author of recent TV dramas “Perdida,” “Caronte” and “Unauthorized Living,” has adapted “Sunlight’s” Spanish-language version from Polakoff’s English script.
Babieka’s Denise O’Dell and Polakoff at Viewfinder are producing the film, with Orlando and Denis Pedregosa as executive producers, and Marta Ferrer García as associate producer.
A coming-of-age story set in Paris and Pamplona during the Franco regime, the Spanish-language “Speak Sunlight” will begin production next spring in Navarre.
Polakoff, winner of two Directors Guild of America awards, has a producer’s credit on Dani Rosemberg’s Cannes Official Selection title “The Death of Cinema and My Father Too,” featuring in Thierry Frémaux’s First Features category.
Top Spanish TV scribe Natxo López, author of recent TV dramas “Perdida,” “Caronte” and “Unauthorized Living,” has adapted “Sunlight’s” Spanish-language version from Polakoff’s English script.
Babieka’s Denise O’Dell and Polakoff at Viewfinder are producing the film, with Orlando and Denis Pedregosa as executive producers, and Marta Ferrer García as associate producer.
- 6/24/2020
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Berlin-based Films Boutique (“There is No Evil”) has acquired world sales to Dani Rosenberg’s feature debut “The Death of Cinema And My Father Too,” which is part of the Cannes 2020 Official Selection.
“The Death of Cinema And My Father Too,” set to have its market premiere in the Cannes Virtual Market, was described by the festival’s artistic director Thierry Fremaux as a “strong take” and “somewhere between a creative documentary and fiction film.”
Penned by Rosenberg and Itay Kohay, the movie tells the story of Yoel, who hears about an imminent Iranian military attack on Tel Aviv and sets off to escape with his family to a safe haven in Jerusalem. His son Assaf, who is a filmmaker and about to become a father himself, wants to give Yoel one last lead role in his movie by weaving the fictional world into bittersweet reality.
“Working on this film...
“The Death of Cinema And My Father Too,” set to have its market premiere in the Cannes Virtual Market, was described by the festival’s artistic director Thierry Fremaux as a “strong take” and “somewhere between a creative documentary and fiction film.”
Penned by Rosenberg and Itay Kohay, the movie tells the story of Yoel, who hears about an imminent Iranian military attack on Tel Aviv and sets off to escape with his family to a safe haven in Jerusalem. His son Assaf, who is a filmmaker and about to become a father himself, wants to give Yoel one last lead role in his movie by weaving the fictional world into bittersweet reality.
“Working on this film...
- 6/11/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Carol Polakoff’s Viewfinder Pictures and Lane Shefter Bishop’s Vast Entertainment have optioned John Henry Browne’s autobiography The Devil’s Defender: My Odyssey Through American Criminal Justice from Ted Bundy to the Kandahar Massacre for development as an hourlong TV drama series. The project is being eyed for a premium cable network or streaming service with a 10- to 13-episode first season. The book, published this year by the Chicago Review Press, details the life…...
- 12/7/2016
- Deadline TV
The collective of leading film industry voices has launched to finance and produce films, documentaries, TV and other forms of media dedicated to the empowerment of women.
We Do It Together (Wdit) will work with male and female directors, actors, and producers who share its vision to develop a slate of gender-led films and ensure a future of opportunities for known and emerging voices within the industry.
The non-profit will raise money from grants, governments, corporate sponsors, and individual donations and plans to unveil its first title in Cannes.
The advisory board comprises such figures as Jessica Chastain, Freida Pinto, Queen Latifah, Catherine Hardwicke, Hany Abu-Assad, Zhang Ziyi, Amma Asante, and Juliette Binoche, among others.
Board of directors are: Albert Berger; Dda partner Dana Archer; The Gersh Agency’s Sandra Lucchesi; Mosaic manager Paul Nelson; producer-director Carol Polakoff; producer Shelby Stone; producer and philanthropist Chiara Tilesi; and writer-producer Hanna Weg.
The organisation...
We Do It Together (Wdit) will work with male and female directors, actors, and producers who share its vision to develop a slate of gender-led films and ensure a future of opportunities for known and emerging voices within the industry.
The non-profit will raise money from grants, governments, corporate sponsors, and individual donations and plans to unveil its first title in Cannes.
The advisory board comprises such figures as Jessica Chastain, Freida Pinto, Queen Latifah, Catherine Hardwicke, Hany Abu-Assad, Zhang Ziyi, Amma Asante, and Juliette Binoche, among others.
Board of directors are: Albert Berger; Dda partner Dana Archer; The Gersh Agency’s Sandra Lucchesi; Mosaic manager Paul Nelson; producer-director Carol Polakoff; producer Shelby Stone; producer and philanthropist Chiara Tilesi; and writer-producer Hanna Weg.
The organisation...
- 2/24/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The collective of leading film industry voices has launched to finance and produce films, documentaries, TV and other forms of media dedicated to the empowerment of women.
We Do It Together (Wdit) will work with male and female directors, actors, and producers who share its vision to develop a slate of gender-led films and ensure a future of opportunities for known and emerging voices within the industry.
The non-profit will raise money from grants, governments, corporate sponsors, and individual donations and plans to unveil its first title in Cannes.
The advisory board comprises such figures as Jessica Chastain, Freida Pinto, Queen Latifah, Catherine Hardwicke, Hany Abu-Assad, Zhang Ziyi, Amma Asante, and Juliette Binoche, among others.
Board of directors are: Albert Berger; Dda partner Dana Archer; The Gersh Agency’s Sandra Lucchesi; Mosaic manager Paul Nelson; producer-director Carol Polakoff; producer Shelby Stone; producer and philanthropist Chiara Tilesi; and writer-producer Hanna Weg.
The organisation...
We Do It Together (Wdit) will work with male and female directors, actors, and producers who share its vision to develop a slate of gender-led films and ensure a future of opportunities for known and emerging voices within the industry.
The non-profit will raise money from grants, governments, corporate sponsors, and individual donations and plans to unveil its first title in Cannes.
The advisory board comprises such figures as Jessica Chastain, Freida Pinto, Queen Latifah, Catherine Hardwicke, Hany Abu-Assad, Zhang Ziyi, Amma Asante, and Juliette Binoche, among others.
Board of directors are: Albert Berger; Dda partner Dana Archer; The Gersh Agency’s Sandra Lucchesi; Mosaic manager Paul Nelson; producer-director Carol Polakoff; producer Shelby Stone; producer and philanthropist Chiara Tilesi; and writer-producer Hanna Weg.
The organisation...
- 2/24/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Filmmaker and TV producer-director Carol Polakoff last year expanded her Viewfinder Pictures banner into television with projects that include The Iron King at FX. Based on the French book series, it's adapted by Christopher Kyle (and is particularly close to Polakoff’s heart as an American who lived in France for 21 years). That project is now joined by a host of timely dramatic properties that Polakoff has acquired and which are sparking interest from studios…...
- 7/22/2015
- Deadline TV
Filmmaker and TV producer-director Carol Polakoff is expanding her Viewfinder banner into television with two hourlong series projects at FX, including a cyber crime drama from writer Ed Burns (The Wire). She’s also officially rebranding her Carol Polakoff Productions company to Viewfinder Pictures and bringing on former Vie Entertainment exec Kristina Sorensen (Freeheld) as VP Production & Development. In addition to the untitled cyber crime dramas, with cyber crime/counter-terrorism expert Marc Goodman executive producing and Burns writing, Polakoff has The Iron King, an adaptation of a French book series. Sorensen will help oversee these and other projects for Viewfinder, along with Daniela Albin, who has been developing projects for Carol Polakoff Prods since its inception in 2009. Polokoff’s feature projects include an English remake of Danish Oscar contender Terribly Happy; an original screenplay set in modern Tehran; Secret Sky, an adaptation of On Beauty by Zadie Smith; and an...
- 5/19/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
On Monday September 9th, The Creative Coalition held their annual Gala for the Spotlight Initiate Awards during the Toronto International Film Festival. Created in 2008, the Spotlight Initiative has served to support independent films that utilize the medium not only as an outlet for artistic expression but simultaneously as a relevant tool to create awareness and inspire society.
This year the honorees were Hill Harper, star and executive producer of Tommy Oliver's Tiff entry 1982, and star of "Covert Affairs", For Colored Girls, "CSI: NY" and Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films (Jobs, Side Effects, End of Watch), a co-venture between Regal Theaters and AMC (now owned by Chinese mogul Wang Jianlin, the wealthiest man in China, chairman of Dalian Wanda Group Corp., who just announced plans to create the world's largest movie studio in his home country).
Tom and Robin Bronk CEO of The Creative Coalition both attended Penn State University. And speaking of education, Robin made a point of reiterating the Creative Coalition's stand on public education, stating that the public schools are failing terribly in arts education and that the education of every child is a basic human right.
Robin Bronk also said, “We are pleased and quite proud to be honoring Hill Harper, star of CSI:ny and Executive Producer and star of Tommy Oliver's new film 1982, and Tom Ortenberg who is now CEO of Open Road, two individuals who – throughout their respective careers – have used their influential platforms within the entertainment industry to serve the common good.”
We had a great time catching up with old friends as well: Cotty Chubb whose next film The Dinner with Cate Blanchett was just announced and makes us all quite happy for him. Carol Polakoff was with Cotty and we made our usual promise to catch up with each other in L.A. We did catch up with Mark Urman of Paladin whose pick-up Metro Manila is U.K.’s Foreign-Language Oscar Entry.
We also spoke of his merger with 108 Media which is doing well. Sharing the dinner table with him and us were Susan Margolin, co-President of Cinedigm as well as old friends Paul Cohen, producer Bruce Weiss and Denise Kasell who has left the Coolidge Theater in Boston to return to her home in New York. Also spotted were Mark Amin who reminded me of those old days when video was king and he started the long-gone Trimark.Now head of Sobini Films, he has many projects happening.
The Creative Coalition is so gracious in hosting great events in Toronto, Sundance and having a weekly 5 minute session with President Obama. Based in New York City, the non-profit and non-partisan organization was founded in 1989 by important figures in the arts and entertainments fields. The group advocates for the importance of creative works to influence change in crucial social issues. For more information click Here.
This year the honorees were Hill Harper, star and executive producer of Tommy Oliver's Tiff entry 1982, and star of "Covert Affairs", For Colored Girls, "CSI: NY" and Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films (Jobs, Side Effects, End of Watch), a co-venture between Regal Theaters and AMC (now owned by Chinese mogul Wang Jianlin, the wealthiest man in China, chairman of Dalian Wanda Group Corp., who just announced plans to create the world's largest movie studio in his home country).
Tom and Robin Bronk CEO of The Creative Coalition both attended Penn State University. And speaking of education, Robin made a point of reiterating the Creative Coalition's stand on public education, stating that the public schools are failing terribly in arts education and that the education of every child is a basic human right.
Robin Bronk also said, “We are pleased and quite proud to be honoring Hill Harper, star of CSI:ny and Executive Producer and star of Tommy Oliver's new film 1982, and Tom Ortenberg who is now CEO of Open Road, two individuals who – throughout their respective careers – have used their influential platforms within the entertainment industry to serve the common good.”
We had a great time catching up with old friends as well: Cotty Chubb whose next film The Dinner with Cate Blanchett was just announced and makes us all quite happy for him. Carol Polakoff was with Cotty and we made our usual promise to catch up with each other in L.A. We did catch up with Mark Urman of Paladin whose pick-up Metro Manila is U.K.’s Foreign-Language Oscar Entry.
We also spoke of his merger with 108 Media which is doing well. Sharing the dinner table with him and us were Susan Margolin, co-President of Cinedigm as well as old friends Paul Cohen, producer Bruce Weiss and Denise Kasell who has left the Coolidge Theater in Boston to return to her home in New York. Also spotted were Mark Amin who reminded me of those old days when video was king and he started the long-gone Trimark.Now head of Sobini Films, he has many projects happening.
The Creative Coalition is so gracious in hosting great events in Toronto, Sundance and having a weekly 5 minute session with President Obama. Based in New York City, the non-profit and non-partisan organization was founded in 1989 by important figures in the arts and entertainments fields. The group advocates for the importance of creative works to influence change in crucial social issues. For more information click Here.
- 9/26/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Here are a few interesting and/or noteworthy projects that were recently added to IMDbPro's database of development titles:
Between Us – Actor-producer, Omar Epps, has written this script about a pair of friends in pursuit of love. He will team up with producer Tracey E. Edmonds to develop the project along with his BrooklynWorks production company. It's currently out to directors.
The Secret Evidence – Emma Thompson is set to reprise her character, Gareth Peirce, from the 1993 Irish film In the Name of the Father in this drama from Nicholas Racz. Filming is expected to begin later this year.
Triplets – If the one thing you thought was missing from the 1988 Arnold Schwarzenegger-Danny DeVito comedy Twins was Eddie Murphy, then you're in luck. The trio is joining forces with Ivan Reitman (director of the original movie, but only currently attached to produce the sequel) to develop the comedy, which would include Murphy as one of their long-lost siblings.
Haunter – Abigail Breslin stars in this Canadian thriller about a haunted house for Copperheart Entertainment producers, Steven Hoban and Mark Smith. Vincenzo Natali's on board to direct.
On Beauty – Actor-writer-director Kasi Lemmons (Talk to Me, Eve's Bayou) writes and directs this indie project that revolves around a pair of intertwined families. Carol Polakoff produces with Ruby Films' Alison Owen and Paul Trijbits.
If you know of something in the works, please consider submitting it for listing it via our online submission form.
Between Us – Actor-producer, Omar Epps, has written this script about a pair of friends in pursuit of love. He will team up with producer Tracey E. Edmonds to develop the project along with his BrooklynWorks production company. It's currently out to directors.
The Secret Evidence – Emma Thompson is set to reprise her character, Gareth Peirce, from the 1993 Irish film In the Name of the Father in this drama from Nicholas Racz. Filming is expected to begin later this year.
Triplets – If the one thing you thought was missing from the 1988 Arnold Schwarzenegger-Danny DeVito comedy Twins was Eddie Murphy, then you're in luck. The trio is joining forces with Ivan Reitman (director of the original movie, but only currently attached to produce the sequel) to develop the comedy, which would include Murphy as one of their long-lost siblings.
Haunter – Abigail Breslin stars in this Canadian thriller about a haunted house for Copperheart Entertainment producers, Steven Hoban and Mark Smith. Vincenzo Natali's on board to direct.
On Beauty – Actor-writer-director Kasi Lemmons (Talk to Me, Eve's Bayou) writes and directs this indie project that revolves around a pair of intertwined families. Carol Polakoff produces with Ruby Films' Alison Owen and Paul Trijbits.
If you know of something in the works, please consider submitting it for listing it via our online submission form.
- 4/9/2012
- by Eric Greene
- IMDbPro News
Unless you're up on your British literary phenomenons, you're in the McSweeney's crowd, or you're studying fiction at Nyu, the name Zadie Smith might not be terribly familiar. Her first novel, the multi-cultural epic "White Teeth" caused a bidding war on the basis of an extract when the writer was only 22, and became an instant best-seller in 2000, a fate followed by her next two books, 2002's "The Autograph Man" and 2005's "On Beauty," the latter of which was nominated for the Booker Prize, the U.K.'s most prestigious literary award. But aside from a British TV miniseries version of "White Teeth," which showcased early turns from Naomie Harris and James McAvoy among others, Smith, who is currently a tenured professor of fiction at Nyu, is yet to have a big-screen film made of one of her works.
But that's about to change, as Deadline reports that Kasi Lemmons, the filmmaker behind "Eve's Bayou,...
But that's about to change, as Deadline reports that Kasi Lemmons, the filmmaker behind "Eve's Bayou,...
- 3/28/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Actress turned filmmaker Kasi Lemmons ("The Caveman's Valentine," "Eve's Bayou") will adapt and direct a film version of Zadie Smith's Booker Prize-nominated novel "On Beauty" for Carol Polakoff Productions, Ruby Films and Film4 reports Deadline.
The comedy of manners follows two families with different but increasingly intertwined lives, race and sexual politics. Alison Owen, Paul Trijbits and Carol Polakoff are producing.
Lemmons, whom many will remember playing Clarice Starling’s FBI classmate in "The Silence of the Lambs", is also developing a film version of Langston Hughes’s gospel song play "Black Nativity" at Fox Searchlight.
The comedy of manners follows two families with different but increasingly intertwined lives, race and sexual politics. Alison Owen, Paul Trijbits and Carol Polakoff are producing.
Lemmons, whom many will remember playing Clarice Starling’s FBI classmate in "The Silence of the Lambs", is also developing a film version of Langston Hughes’s gospel song play "Black Nativity" at Fox Searchlight.
- 3/28/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Eve’s Bayou helmer Kasi Lemmons has been set to adapt and direct On Beauty, based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Zadie Smith. The film will be developed as a coproduction between Carol Polakoff Productions, Ruby Films and Film4. The book is an academic comedy of manners, focusing on the story of two families with different but increasingly intertwined lives, race and sexual politics. It’s been called a modern day Howards End, which was an inspiration for the author. Alison Owen and Paul Trijbits of Ruby Films are producing with Carol Polakoff. Lemmons, who started as an actress (she played Clarice Starling’s classmate at the FBI Academy in The Silence of the Lambs) and has also directed Talk To Me with Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejoifor, and The Caveman’s Valentine with Samuel L. Jackson. She’s developing at Fox Searchlight an adapatation of Langston Hughes...
- 3/27/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Remakes, remakes remakes...but is it a different scenario when the director of an acclaimed foreign film signs on to remake his own movie for English-speaking audiences? That's what's happening with Terribly Happy, the dark, Coen Brothers-flavored Danish film that cleaned up at the major Bodil Awards in 2009 and is Denmark's submission for the Foreign Language Oscar this year. Henrik Ruben Genz will remake his own film in English, giving him an opportunity to play with a bigger budget and take the story in new directions. Gentz was also the co-writer on the first version of the film, which is adapted from the novel of the same name by Erling Jepsen. (Well, the novel is called Frygtelig lykkelig, which is also the untranslated Danish name of the film.) The Us version is being written by Howard Rodman, and producer Carol Polakoff says that this is a chance to approach the...
- 2/15/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
After 15 years on foreign shores, Carol Polakoff is setting up camp back in the U.S.
The director-producer is launching Carol Polakoff Prods., a New York-based feature film production and development company, with the project "Safe Haven." Oscar-nominated screenwriter and playwright Michael Weller ("Ragtime") is writing the multiple-story line drama inspired by up-to-the-minute real-life events stemming from Nebraska's controversial Safe Haven laws, which allow parents to leave troubled children at hospitals. Polakoff is producing.
"We've interviewed families and government officials in Nebraska, and this film will encompass unique situations and heartbreaking stories that intertwine for a compelling drama that some people may find shocking," said Polakoff, who hopes to focus her projects on social issues targeted at wide audiences.
Twenty years ago, the Gersh-repped Polakoff directed, wrote and/or produced the documentaries "In Our Lifetime" and "Envol" and several ABC and PBS drama specials and docs. She earned two DGA...
The director-producer is launching Carol Polakoff Prods., a New York-based feature film production and development company, with the project "Safe Haven." Oscar-nominated screenwriter and playwright Michael Weller ("Ragtime") is writing the multiple-story line drama inspired by up-to-the-minute real-life events stemming from Nebraska's controversial Safe Haven laws, which allow parents to leave troubled children at hospitals. Polakoff is producing.
"We've interviewed families and government officials in Nebraska, and this film will encompass unique situations and heartbreaking stories that intertwine for a compelling drama that some people may find shocking," said Polakoff, who hopes to focus her projects on social issues targeted at wide audiences.
Twenty years ago, the Gersh-repped Polakoff directed, wrote and/or produced the documentaries "In Our Lifetime" and "Envol" and several ABC and PBS drama specials and docs. She earned two DGA...
- 5/7/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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