EXCLUSIVE: Julian Higgins, the writer, director and producer behind the Sundance breakout God’s Country, has signed with A3 Artists Agency for representation.Higgins’ feature directorial debut, based on the short story “Winter’s Light” by James Lee Burke, is set in the snowy wilderness of the American West.
In the character-driven thriller, BAFTA and Emmy winner Thandiwe Newton (Westworld, Crash) plays Sandra Guidry, a Black professor living and working in a rural college town who discovers a mysterious red truck parked in her driveway, and soon learns it belongs to a pair of local hunters seeking to enter the forest behind her house.
Sandra turns them away politely but firmly – her experience tells her these are not the sort of men to welcome freely into her world.
But they won’t take no for an answer, and soon Sandra finds herself drawn into an escalating battle of wills that puts her most deeply held values to the test.Higgins adapted the script with Shaye Ogbonna, and produced alongside Halee Bernard and Cold Iron Pictures’ CEO Miranda Bailey and Amanda Marshall, with Anthony Ciardelli and The Film Arcade’s Jason Beck exec producing.
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