Breakout documentary “Sweetheart Deal” has finally landed a North American distributor — and unveiled its buzzy trailer.
After debuting at Slamdance and going on to receive awards at the Seattle Film Critics Society, Seattle International Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Bend Film, Atlanta Underground Film Festival and the Brooklyn Film Festival, IndieWire can confirm that “Sweetheart Deal” will be distributed by Abramorama. Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller co-direct the film.
“Sweetheart Deal” follows four sex workers who are caught up in the spiral of addiction. The group turn to a self-proclaimed healer who offers a path to salvation from working the streets of Seattle. But just as they begin to rebuild their lives, a shocking betrayal comes to light that will change them all, as the official synopsis teases. The documentary is filmed in a cinema vérité style across several years.
“Though we didn’t know what we would find,...
After debuting at Slamdance and going on to receive awards at the Seattle Film Critics Society, Seattle International Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Bend Film, Atlanta Underground Film Festival and the Brooklyn Film Festival, IndieWire can confirm that “Sweetheart Deal” will be distributed by Abramorama. Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller co-direct the film.
“Sweetheart Deal” follows four sex workers who are caught up in the spiral of addiction. The group turn to a self-proclaimed healer who offers a path to salvation from working the streets of Seattle. But just as they begin to rebuild their lives, a shocking betrayal comes to light that will change them all, as the official synopsis teases. The documentary is filmed in a cinema vérité style across several years.
“Though we didn’t know what we would find,...
- 8/7/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Update: In her interview with ABC News, Mary Trump defended one of the headline-grabbing claims in her new book, that her uncle Donald Trump hired a friend to take the Sat as way to improve his chances of getting into the University of Pennsylvania.
In a portion of the interview shown on Good Morning America on Wednesday, George Stephanopoulos asked her how she knows that given that it happened in 1964.
“I’ve been told this by people in my family,” she said. “I am absolutely confident that it’s true. I am happy finally to be able to speak about it. I also know that it is not the Joe Shapiro we have been focusing on.”
She identified Shapiro as the friend who Trump paid to take the test. But as details of the book were reported last week, Shapiro’s widow, Pam Shriver, posted a video that cast doubt on the claims,...
In a portion of the interview shown on Good Morning America on Wednesday, George Stephanopoulos asked her how she knows that given that it happened in 1964.
“I’ve been told this by people in my family,” she said. “I am absolutely confident that it’s true. I am happy finally to be able to speak about it. I also know that it is not the Joe Shapiro we have been focusing on.”
She identified Shapiro as the friend who Trump paid to take the test. But as details of the book were reported last week, Shapiro’s widow, Pam Shriver, posted a video that cast doubt on the claims,...
- 7/15/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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