'Josephine' Trailer Drops After Sundance Double Win
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- "Josephine" won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Sumerian Pictures in a competitive seven-figure deal.
- Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan star as parents struggling to support their 8-year-old daughter, played by newcomer Mason Reeves, after she witnesses an unimaginably horrific crime in Golden Gate Park.
- Writer-director Beth de Araújo drew on her own lived experiences to craft the psychological thriller as autobiographical fiction.
- The film screened in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival and will continue its rollout next month at the Toronto International Film Festival.
- Sumerian Pictures has committed to an awards campaign ahead of "Josephine's" November 20 theatrical release.
- Variety's former chief film critic Peter Debruge called the film the "standout" of Sundance, commending de Araújo for daring "to confront the life-shattering intersection of sex and violence in our culture."
- Only two previous films — "CODA" (which won Best Picture at the Oscars) and "Minari" — swept both of Sundance's top U.S. dramatic prizes.
Why it matters: "Josephine" joins an exclusive two-film club: only "CODA" and "Minari" previously swept Sundance's top U.S. dramatic prizes, with "CODA" going on to win Best Picture. That precedent underwrites Sumerian Pictures' seven-figure acquisition and formal awards-campaign commitment ahead of the film's November 20 theatrical bow.
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