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TANGO ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH WATER’S END PRODUCTIONS AUTOMATIK ENTERTAINMENT STONEBOIES ENTERTAINMENT AN EXTRA A PRODUCTION A GABRIELLE NADIG PRODUCTION WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY NIA DACOSTA STARRING: TESSA THOMPSON , LILY JAMES, LUKE KIRBY with JAMES BADGE DALE and LANCE REDDICK RUNNING TIME: 103 minutes RATING: Rated R for language and some drug material. FESTIVALS: TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL WINNER – Nora Ephron Prize for excellence in San Francisco Film Critics Circle, Best US Indie storytelling Narrative Feature LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL NEW ORLEANS FILM FESTIVAL CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL MONTANA FILM FESTIVAL PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL HEARTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FESTIVAL DENVER FILM FESTIVAL VIRGINIA FILM FESTIVAL AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL NEON Los Angeles New York Publicity Digital Publicity Christina Zisa Publicity Falco Ink Ginsberg / Libby [email protected] Michael Lawson Michelle DiMartino [email protected] Claire Timmons [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 1 SYNOPSIS Little Woods, North Dakota, a fracking boomtown well beyond its prime. Ollie is trying to survive the last few days of her probation after getting caught illegally running prescription pills over the Canadian border. But when her mother dies, she is thrust back into the life of her estranged sister Deb (James), who is facing her own crisis with an unplanned pregnancy and a deadbeat ex. The two find they have one week to settle the mortgage on their mother’s house or face foreclosure. As bills and pressure mount, Ollie faces a choice: whether to return to a way of life she thought she’d left behind for just one more score or to leave it all behind. A taught and affecting thriller about sisters pushed to extremes from award-winning director Nia DaCosta. DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT When I visited Williston, North Dakota, the boomtown upon which LITTLE WOODS is based, I found the modern Wild West. Life in fracking boomtowns in America was shocking to me. The inequities abounded, especially when it came to healthcare and reproductive rights. I found millennial prospectors and an economy evolving as a result of new demands for more housing, more booze, more drugs and more women. I found a place that felt, and often truly was, lawless. Inspired to tell a modern-day western about an evocative and deeply American place, LITTLE WOODS became the story of Ollie - our reluctant hero forced to work outside the law to get what she needs. The wide open, isolating and enveloping western landscape would be our home and at the center would be our problem - how do you overcome your suffering in a place like this? When your choices are only as good as your scant options, what do you choose? At the frontier, the unknowable space beyond civilization, there is LITTLE WOODS. Our film will be an opportunity for this piece of America to be seen and for the people who live in it to be heard. Thank you, Nia DaCosta 2 CREW BIOGRAPHIES WRITER AND DIRECTOR NIA DACOSTA Nia DaCosta is a writer and director based in New York City. She has written and directed projects for stage, film and new media platforms. DaCosta, and her feature project, LITTLE WOODS, has been supported by the Sundance Institute, the New York Film Festival Artist Academy, the San Francisco Film Society and the Time Warner Foundation. LITTLE WOODS, which stars Tessa Thompson and Lily James, is her first feature film. PRODUCER RACHAEL FUNG RACHAEL FUNG is an independent producer and the founder of Extra A Productions. The development and production company is dedicated to bringing to life original stories that speak to the universality of human emotion while simultaneously exposing audiences to different worlds, characters and stories. Fung produced Nia DaCosta’s feature debut LITTLE WOODS, starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James as sisters in North Dakota who are driven to work outside the law to better their lives and get access to healthcare. The film premiered in competition at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival where it was nominated for Best Narrative Feature and DaCosta was awarded the Nora Ephron Award for the film. The film has since been picked up by NEON for release in the US and Independent for international sales. Fung also produced Jackson Segars’ short film KIMCHI, which had its world premiere at the Narrative Shorts Competition at SXSW, where it was nominated for the SXSW Grand Jury Award. The film explores life through the context of the Korean youngjeong, a funerary portrait taken in anticipation of the death of its subject. Other shorts she has produced include Sophie Tabet’s THE LONELY WHALE starring Adwoa Aboah and Richard Kind and Dean Marcial’s THE GOD PHONE, which won the Audience Award at the 2012 Little Rock Film Festival. Most recently, Fung produced David Raboy’s debut feature THE GIANT. An emotional coming-of-age horror, the film follows 17-year-old Charlotte as her past and present collide when a disappeared lover’s sudden reemergence coincides with a killer’s siege of her small Georgia town. Starring Odessa Young, Ben Schnetzer, Jack Kilmer, Madelyn Cline and Danny Ramirez, production wrapped in July 2018. Fung has previously worked on the Academy Award-winning film THE GREAT GATSBY, directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan. She also was an associate producer on Luhrmann’s Netflix series THE GET DOWN, which explored the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx in 1977 who ultimately went on to transform music history. 3 Commercially, she has worked with clients including Chanel, Prada, Tiffany & Co, Jason Wu, Brooks Brothers, Barney’s New York, Cadillac, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pepsi Co. Fung started her career at Red Crown Productions and was recently a fellow with San Francisco Film. She was born and raised in Australia and currently lives in New York. 4 PRODUCER GABRIELLE NADIG Gabrielle Nadig is an award-winning producer at Beachside Films. (THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST, MORRIS FROM AMERICA). Gabrielle’s first feature film KING JACK premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival where it took home the Narrative Audience Award and was called, “A stylish, sensitive coming-of-ager,” by Variety. KING JACK went on to win a Spirit Award in 2016 and is available on Netflix. Gabrielle’s short film LUCIA BEFORE AND AFTER won the Short Film Jury Award for US Fiction at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Another short film produced by Gabrielle, TORU, premiered in competition at 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by A24. Gabrielle’s latest film, LITTLE WOODS, starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James will be premiering in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival. She is also currently in post production on the feature-length comedy, WE ARE UNSATISFIED, starring Billy Crystal and Ben Schwartz. Gabrielle is a 2013 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow, and a 2016 “Women at Sundance” Fellow. Gabrielle joined the Beachside Films team in 2018 where she produces alongside Michael Clark and Alex Turtletaub. CINEMATOGRAPHER MATT MITCHELL Matt Mitchell is an award winning Director of Photography based out of Brooklyn NY. As cinematographer, Matt has lensed projects all over the globe, and has collaborated with some of the most exciting and talented filmmakers working in the film industry today. His documentary REFUGEE, had it's world premiere at the 43rd Annual Telluride Film Festival, and was accepted as an Official Selection at the 2016 Camerimage Film Festival in Bydgoszcz, Poland. It has also garnered Best Documentary wins at the 2017 Nashville, Amsterdam, Santa Barbara, and Fargo International Film Festivals. Matt also shot the film TORU which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was produced and distributed by A24. Most recently, Matt finished principal photography on Nia DaCosta's directorial debut, LITTLE WOODS, starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James. He is currently in pre-production of his next feature film VILLAINS, and is shooting a feature length documentary in Delhi India about child slavery. 5 COMPOSER BRIAN MCOMBER Brian McOmber is a composer, producer and percussionist whose background as a research scientist strongly influenced his experimental approach towards film scoring. He toured and recorded extensively with the band Dirty Projectors (2006-2012), and has collaborated with a variety of other recording artists including Alarm Will Sound, Björk, David Byrne, Deer Tick, Doudou N’Diaye Rose, Mira Calix, The Roots, Solange, and St. Vincent. Since shifting his focus to film scoring in 2013, McOmber has written for narrative and documentary films that have premiered at Berlin, Cannes, Rotterdam, Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca and Venice. In 2016, Filmmaker Magazine named McOmber as one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film”. In 2017, his score for Trey Edward Shults’ KRISHA (A24) received numerous accolades, including an American Independent Film Award for “best score”. Recent film scores include the noir thriller THE STRANGE ONES (Vertical), horror/thriller IT COMES AT NIGHT (A24), the stranger than fiction documentary NUTS! (Amazon), and the science fiction short, TORU (A24). COMPOSER MALCOLM PARSON A native of New Orleans, cellist Malcolm Parson has been hailed as “the most creative cellist of his generation”. According to Grammy Award winner, Eugene Friesen, “He is that rare player with feet planted firmly in classical music and the music of our time while possessing perfect intonation, fluent technique and stylistic versatility.” A longtime member of the grammy winning “Carolina Chocolate Drops,” Malcolm has also shared the stage with musicians and bands such as James Lauderdale, Marcus Mumford, Bela Fleck, Del McCoury, Old Crow Medicine Show, Ron Carter, Paquito D’Rivera, Patrice Rushen, Toshi Reagon, and Cyrus Chestnut, as well as collaborating with choreographers such as Twyla Tharp, Julia Gleich, and dance company Brooklyn Ballet.