Angelique Jackson CAA has signed Krystin Ver Linden, writer and director of the Sundance Film Festival selection “Alice,” for representation.The dramatic thriller marks Ver Linden’s feature film debut.
Prior to its festival launch, Roadside Attractions and Vertical Entertainment nabbed U.S. rights to the picture, starring Keke Palmer, Common and Johnny Lee Miller, in a deal made by CAA Media Finance. “Alice” will be released in theaters on Friday, March 18.Palmer plays the titular “Alice,” an enslaved woman who escapes her plantation and finds herself in 1973 Georgia.
When the filmmaker and star joined Variety‘s senior entertainment writer Adam B. Vary for the Variety Virtual Sundance Studio, alongside producer Peter Lawson, they unpacked the movie’s complex themes.
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