EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winners Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi are set to star in Kornél Mundruczó’s feature drama Place to Be.
Written by Kata Wéber (Pieces Of A Woman, White God), Place to Be follows the unlikely friendship of anelderly woman [Burstyn] and middle-aged man [Waititi] as they travel from Chicago to New York to return a lost racing pigeon home.
The feature will shoot at Disney Studios Australia in Sydney this month. Hungarian-born Mundruczó is known for his auteurial breakthrough film, White God, and Venice Best Film and Oscar-nominated Netflix feature, Pieces Of A Woman.
Pic is produced by Jomon Thomas (Monkey Man, Hotel Mumbai), Megan Wynn (Together, Poker Face), and Alexander Rodnyansky (Loveless, Beanpole).
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