Freestyle Acquires Ernest Dickerson’s ‘Double Play’; Grindstone Takes ‘The Virgin Of Highland Park’ ; ‘Until We Meet Again,’ ‘The Last Mountain’ Release Dates – Film Briefs
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American rights to Double Play, the latest feature from award-winning filmmaker Ernest Dickerson (DMZ, Juice).
The digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios will release the film, based on Curaçaoan author Frank Martinus Arion’s internationally acclaimed Dutch-language novel Dubbelspel, on digital and VOD platforms on February 22.Double Play is a drama set against the beauty and bittersweet complexity of Curacao, where poverty and wealth are two sides of the same coin.
It follows Ostrik (Dani Dare), who is now a grown man working as a doctor in the Netherlands, as he returns to his childhood home to confront ghosts of his past revealed to him in a mysterious letter.
Through his memories, we witness the sometimes-dangerous moves that adults made for the sake of survival in a time of turmoil and colonial unrest during the 1970s.The film penned by Evan Jones and Alaric Smeets also stars Lennie James, Melanie Liburd, Alana “la la” Anthony, Bronson Pinchot, Louis Gossett, Jr., Colin Salmon, Mustafa Shakir, Isaach De Bankolé, Barbara Eve Harris, Alexander Karim, Saycon Sengbloh and Heather Jocelyn Blair.
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