Exclusive: Mimi Steinbauer and her team will introduce buyers in Cannes to the coming-of-age film starring William Fichtner, Jon Voight, Gabriel Basso, Lia Marie Johnson and newcomer George Kosturos.
Alex Ranarivelo directed American Wrestler: The Wizard, which will screen in the Cannes market on May 17 and recently premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Brian Rudnick wrote the screenplay inspired by true events of high school wrestling champion Ali Afshar, who is featured in the film and is a producer alongside Hadeel Reda.
Forrest Lucas and Protect The Harvest serve as executive producers and Ashley Michaelsen is a co-producer.
Kosturos stars as Afshar, an outcast teenage immigrant sent to live with his uncle in the small Northern California town of Petaluma where he joins the floundering high school wrestling team.
He teams up with the inspiring coach and leads the team to success.
“It’s amazing what young kids can do when they put their minds to it,” said...
Alex Ranarivelo directed American Wrestler: The Wizard, which will screen in the Cannes market on May 17 and recently premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Brian Rudnick wrote the screenplay inspired by true events of high school wrestling champion Ali Afshar, who is featured in the film and is a producer alongside Hadeel Reda.
Forrest Lucas and Protect The Harvest serve as executive producers and Ashley Michaelsen is a co-producer.
Kosturos stars as Afshar, an outcast teenage immigrant sent to live with his uncle in the small Northern California town of Petaluma where he joins the floundering high school wrestling team.
He teams up with the inspiring coach and leads the team to success.
“It’s amazing what young kids can do when they put their minds to it,” said...
- 5/5/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Los Angeles was the host to the Esx Entertainment special screening of “The Wrong Side of Right.” The film premiered Tuesday at Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres. In attendance were several of the film’s stars, including Lea Thompson, Allison Paige, Christina Moore and Jayson Blair, Brandon Eaton and Annabelle Kavanaugh, as well as director Alex Ranarivelo, producer/actor Ali Afshar, and the man who’s the basis for the film, Daniel Christensen. Other guests included Missi Pyle, John Ducey, Lucas Oil Porducts’ Forrest Lucas and Charlotte Lucas, Jeff Probst, fashion designer Ashley Michaelsen, Caitlin O’Connor, Alice Aoki, radio personality Trent Loos and Caitlyn Carver. Take a look at a gallery of photos [ Read More ]
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- 7/15/2015
- by monique
- ShockYa
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