Francesca Gregorini

Sundance: Tribeca Film & Well Go Pick Up Francesca Gregorini's Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes

After premiering at Sundance earlier this year, Tribeca Film and Well Go have picked up Francesca Gregorini's Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes. 

Trailer Watch: Emanuel and The Truth About Fishes - Written and Directed by Francesca Gregorini

Francesca Gregorini's Emanuel and The Truth About Fishes made its debut at Sundance. The film follows Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario) who lives with her father (Alfred Molina) and stepmother (Frances O'Connor). Emanuel hates her birthday because her mother died while giving birth to her. When Linda (Jessi...

Sundance Review: 'Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes' Is A Frustrating Sea Of Clichés

There is a widely held stereotype that the Sundance Film Festival is just dour, depressing films – dramas about addiction and family dysfunction and infidelity and incest and on and on – and outside of the occasional “Little Miss Sunshine”-type breakout, the festival wouldn’t really hold much intere...

Anticipating Sundance: Using Sundance to Shift the Narrative on Women Directors

Using Sundance to Shift the Narrative on Women Directors

The happy glow has still not worn off the news that women directors have achieved gender parity in the US dramatic and documentary competitions.  (But we must also remember that women are still not there in any of the other categories.)  Women directors became the story.  Here are som...

Kaya Scodelario Replaces Rooney Mara For Indie-Drama 'Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes'

Just yesterday, we reported that current "it girl" Rooney Mara had amicably split with "Tanner Hall" co-helmer Francesca Gregorini for her next feature, "Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes," as she had grown too old for the part of the 17 year old lead. Variet...