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Gravitas Ventures has acquired all North American rights to Laurie Collyer's Sunlight Jr., starring Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts, Norman Reedus, and Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon. Gravitas will partner with Samuel Goldwyn Films for the release. The film will have a pre-theatrical VOD opening and will then be released in theaters November 2013. Sunlight Jr. recently played to critical acclaim in competition at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.

Sunlight Jr. spotlights hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa (Naomi Watts) and her disabled boyfriend, Richie (Matt Dillon), who are trapped in a generational cycle of poverty. Their luck may be changing when they learn that Melissa has become pregnant. But as soon as she loses her job and they get evicted from the motel they live in, their joy vanishes. Through this adversity, the couple realizes that they can never lose everything as long as they have each other.

Sunlight Jr. is...

Gravitas Ventures has acquired all North American rights to Laurie Collyer’s Sunlight Jr., starring Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts, Norman Reedus, and Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon. Gravitas will partner with Samuel Goldwyn Films for the release. The film will have a pre-theatrical VOD opening and will then be released in theaters November 2013.

Sunlight Jr. recently played to critical acclaim in competition at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.

Sunlight Jr. spotlights hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa (Naomi Watts) and her disabled boyfriend, Richie (Matt Dillon), who are trapped in a generational cycle of poverty. Their luck may be changing when they learn that Melissa has become pregnant. But as soon as she loses her job and they get evicted from the motel they live in, their joy vanishes. Through this adversity, the couple realizes that they can never lose everything as long as they have each other.

Sunlight Jr. is...

Partners with Samuel Goldwyn Films to release the film. Gravitas Ventures has acquired all North American rights to Laurie Collyer’s Sunlight Jr., which stars Naomi Watts, Norman Reedus, and Matt Dillon. Gravitas will partner with Samuel Goldwyn Films for the release which will get a pre-theatrical VOD debut, then hit theaters in November this year. The film is written and directed Laurie Collyer (Sherrybaby), produced by Charlie Corwin, Andrea Roa, and Ariel Elia, and executive produced by William Dietrich, Simon Fawcett, Joshua Skurla, Dan Klabin, and Fisher Stevens. The film stars Naomi Watts, Norman Reedus, and Matt Dillon.

The gritty, inspirational drama Sunlight Jr. will be unveiled to international buyers by Hyde Park International at this year.s Marche du Film. Written and directed by the award-winning Laurie Collyer (Sherrybaby) and starring Naomi Watts (J. Edgar, King Kong), Matt Dillon (Crash, There.S Something About Mary) and Norman Reedus (The Boondock Saints, The Walking Dead). The film is produced by Original Media.s Charlie Corwin (Half Nelson, The Squid And The Whale), Freight Yard Films. Andrea Roa and Ariel Elia, who is producing on behalf of Empyrean Pictures. Joshua Skurla and Dan Klabin are executive producers for Empyrean, which fully financed the film, and are joined by Simon Fawcett (How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, In The Loop) as executive producer.

Sunlight Jr. is currently in post production and a promo will be shown at Cannes. Shot on location in southern Florida, the story spotlights hard-working convenience store...