Carson Lund, Director Of Cannes & New York Film Festival Baseball Movie ‘Eephus’, Signs With Empirical Evidence
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Empirical Evidence’s management division has signed American filmmaker Carson Lund, who directed Eephus, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight section.
Eephus was acquired by Music Box Films out of Cannes for U.S. distribution and will release the film theatrically in March 2025.
The film is set to have its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival this week. The comedy-drama, which uses amateur baseball to reflect on the passage of time, charts how a men’s veteran baseball game stretches to extra innings on a beloved field’s final day before demolition.
Lund is a founding member of the LA-based filmmaker collective Omnes Films. Eephus marks the second project from Omnes Films to screen in the Directors’ Fortnight section along with Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, which Lund shot.
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