“Membership Child,” Jordan Firstman’s buzzy directorial debut starring Cara Delevingne (“American Horror Story”), Diego Calva (“Babylon”) and Firstman himself, has been boarded by UTA Unbiased Movie Group and Charades forward of the Cannes Movie Pageant.
Slated to world premiere in Un Sure Regard, “Membership Child” is about in New York Metropolis and follows a washed-up celebration promoter who’s pressured to show his life round when an sudden customer arrives.
Firstman, an internet-native artistic expertise and star of HBO’s “I Love L.A.,” wrote, directed and stars in “Membership Child,” alongside Delevingne, Calva, Eldar Isgandarov and newcomer Reggie Absolom. The movie was shot on 35mm by Adam Newport-Berra, the director of pictures who just lately gained an Emmy for his work on “The Studio.”
“Membership Child” is produced by Academy Award-winner Alex Coco (“Anora”) and Galen Core (“Lurker”), alongside Subject Studio’s Ryan Heller (“A Actual Ache”) and Michael Bloom. Subject Studios additionally financed thefilm in addition to produced with Keep Gold as co-financier. Firstman additionally serves as an government produceralongside Ian Stratford, Charles Croft and Jasmine Daghighian for Subject, Olmo Schnabel, and DanielaTaplin for Keep Gold.
UTA Unbiased Movie Group arrange the financing for the movie with Subject Studios and is handlingNorth American and international gross sales. Paris-based worldwide gross sales agent Charades has additionally boardedinternational rights.
Firstman is represented by UTA, Black Bear, The Lede Firm and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.Delevingne is repped by UTA, Brillstein Leisure Companions and Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dean,whereas Calva is with WME, Leisure 360, Lumina Administration, Narrative, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman.
Absolom is represented by Mark Jermin Administration, and Isgandarov by Elevate Leisure and Bloch Legislation. Coco is represented by Dissident, CAA and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Rogal, Shikora & Clark. Core is represented by UTA.
Charades’ Cannes slate additionally consists of Asghar Farhadi’s “Parallel Tales” and Emmanuel Marre’s “A Man of His Time” in competitors, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “The Samurai and the Prisoner” in Cannes Premiere, in addition to Sandra Wollner’s “Everytime” in Un Sure Regard.
