‘My Old School’: Magnolia Pictures Picks Up Sundance Documentary Featuring Alan Cumming
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Jono McLeod directed documentary My Old School, which made its world premiere at this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival, has landed with Magnolia Pictures.
The specialty cinema label has taken North American rights to the docu which features Alan Cumming. A July 22 theatrical release has been set.My Old School unravels the astonishing true story of a mysterious new student who may not be who his Scottish classmates and teachers believe.In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland.
What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend. Brandon had been privately tutored in Canada while he accompanied his mother, an opera diva, on tour before her tragic death.
The preternaturally bright student surprised teachers by blazing toward his goal of entering medical school, displaying a wealth of knowledge beyond his years.
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