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Merritt Wever has proven her range in a wide variety of roles, winning Emmys for both her comedic work in Nurse Jackie and her dramatic turn in Godless. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe for her exceptional performance in Unbelievable and lives rent-free in my head for the way she pronounces pecan in Marriage Story (picking up an Independent Spirit Award for it to boot). Wever is once again flexing her drama muscles in Midday Black Midnight Blue, where she plays Beth, who’s mourning the death of her sister, Liv (Samantha Soule), and attempts to heal with Liv’s partner Ian (Chris Stack), who’s having his own unique struggles trying to overcome his grief.

"You look at love like a boat... and it's not a boat, it's the sea – blue, black, green, gold. It comes in so many waves." Good Deed Ent. has revealed an official trailer for an indie film titled Midday Black Midnight Blue, created by two filmmakers - Samantha Soule & Daniel Talbott. This one premiered at the 2022 Seattle Film Festival last year, and it also stopped by the Provincetown, Omaha, and Sun Valley Film Fests. Isolated in an empty house, Ian remains in grief over the loss of a woman he loved who died two decades ago. The memory clamoring to be released, and his daily existence turning ever darker, Ian will have to find a way to let her go. But a chance encounter and reconnection with her sister changes everything. The indie film stars Merritt Wever (Tiny Beautiful Things), Chris Stack (AMC's Interview with the Vampire), Samantha Soule and Will Pullen.

The 12th annual Sun Valley Film Festival runs from March 29th to April 2nd and will feature 18 narrative and documentary titles, including opening night selection, “Fancy Dance,” which is the directorial debut of co-writer Erica Tremblay, and the world premiere of Anthony Mandler’s “Surrounded,” which will close the festival. Award honorees include Josh Brolin, who will receive the Vision Award, and Sophie Thatcher, who will be given the Rising Star Award. “Last year, people were dying to get out, and this year our ticket sales are outpacing 2022. Once again, there’s a strong appetite for live events,” says festival founder and executive director Teddy Grennan.

Svff was launched on the backs of celebrities like Ernest Hemingway, Gary Cooper, and Marilyn Monroe, who took lavish vacations to America’s first destination ski resort. A train, called the Snowball Express, ran from Los Angeles to Sun Valley, and it was common...

Exclusive: Good Deed Entertainment has acquired North American and UK rights to the indie drama Midday Black Midnight Blue, starring 2x Emmy winner Merritt Wever (Godless), slating it for a day-and-date release in June.

The first feature from writer-directors Samantha Soule and Daniel Talbott, also starring Chris Stack (AMC’s Interview with the Vampire) and Soule (Godless), follows Ian (Stack) as he grapples with his shifting memories of Liv (Soule), a woman he once loved. For Ian, it’s a chance run-in with Liv’s sister (Wever) that sparks a journey in which he has a chance to reconnect to the light and fight his way back to life.

The film, which world premiered at last year’s Seattle Film Festival, is produced by Soule, Talbott and Stack, as well as Lovell Holder and Addie Johnson Talbott. Exec producers are Timothy Farrell, Conner Marx and Will Pullen. Gde’s EVP...

Jointly represents North American rights with The Gersh Agency.

Ddi has come on board for worldwide sales starting at EFM on Stephen Moyer’s drama A Bit Of Light starring Anna Paquin, Ray Winstone and Youssef Kerkour.

Moyer’s (True Blood) second directorial outing follows Ella (Paquin), nearly in her 40s, who moves back with her father Alan (Winstone) and tries to stay sober after ceding custody of her young daughters to her ex and his new partner.

A Bit Of Light filmed entirely on location in Suffolk and Scarborough in the UK. Phin Glynn and Axel Kuschevatzky produced through...

Exclusive: Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons (Bonnie and Clyde) has signed on to star alongside Samantha Soule and Wendy vanden Heuvel in I Look To You, an upcoming indie feature written and directed by Daniel Talbott (Midday Black Midnight Blue).

The drama centers on New York transplant Chloe (Soule), who after the sudden death of her wife, ends up in an inpatient treatment program for extreme grief and depression. Once released, the only place she has left to go is the home of her estranged mother (Vanden Heuvel) in coastal Washington. Structured on the five stages of grief, the film chronicles the tenuous journey of a deeply broken mother-and-daughter relationship and faces down the question, “Can you ever really go home?” Parsons will play Elizabeth, the grandmother of Soule’s Chloe.

Lovell Holder and Addie Johnson Talbott are producing alongside Daniel Talbott.

Parsons won...