EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to Day of a Lion, the characteristic directorial debut of the Foscht Twins – Bianca and Dilara – 22-year-old actor-filmmakers from Graz, Austria.
The Foschts wrote, directed and star within the movie, described as a psycho-drama set within the late Nineteen Fifties, about two sisters who reunite at their childhood house after the loss of life of their father, “to uncover forgotten secrets and techniques and rip open previous wounds. Two ladies drawn right into a sport of cat and mouse in the home of a useless man.”
Gravitas plans to launch the movie digitally and on VOD platforms on August 14, together with Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play Films, YouTube, DISH and different platforms. Watch the trailer beneath.
Standing L-R Simone Neviani and Dilara Foscht. Seated: Bianca Foscht.
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“Day of a Lion options standout performances from Bianca and Dilara Foscht alongside Simone Neviani,” notes a launch, “showcasing the sisters’ exceptional expertise as they navigate the advanced emotional panorama of their characters… This compelling narrative, impressed by German expressionism and European cinema, is crafted within the fashion of Kammerspiele, a one-location-set theatrical manufacturing that emphasizes character-driven storytelling.”
Day of a Lion premiered on the Wales Worldwide Movie Pageant, successful the Greatest Overseas Function Movie award. It gained seven awards on the Idyllwild Worldwide Cinema Fest, together with Greatest Worldwide Function Movie, and performing awards for all three solid members — Bianca Foscht (as Wanda), Dilara Foscht (as Dolly), and Simone Neviani (as Geronimo). As well as, the twins gained the Greatest First Time Filmmakers Award on the Montreal Worldwide Movie Pageant.
Dilara Foscht (left) and Bianca Foscht on the set of ‘Day of a Lion’
Courtesy of Ethan Greyson
“As actors first, we’re thrilled to have created a movie that not solely highlights the within of a collapsing identification via the craft of performing but in addition resonates with audiences on a deeper degree,” Bianca Foscht stated in a press release. “This challenge has been a profound and humbling expertise for us, and we’re grateful to have discovered a house for our movie with Gravitas Ventures.”
The Foscht Twins are in pre-production on one other movie they wrote, Oma. Together with Day of a Lion, their credit embrace the shorts Elevator (2021) and Eve (2020).
“We’re like a practice; Bianca is the engine, that unstoppably runs on excessive pace with vitality and stamina that might provide a complete soccer workforce,” the twins write. “Dilara is the practice driver that makes positive the practice just isn’t crushing into any rocks alongside the best way, well discovering essentially the most adventurous observe for the Foscht Twins Practice to comply with.”
Bianca Foscht (left) and Dilara Foscht
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The twins educated as dancers, competing on a world degree. “Whereas their pleasure for aggressive sports activities, competing in dance in addition to equestrian tournaments for over 9 years has constructed the muse for his or her arduous work, stamina and love for collaboration,” in keeping with their bio, “the sisters grew their filmmaking experience on the aspect with creating self-written and carried out quick movies, shot within the Austrian forests and their neighbors’ houses. To show their level that filmmaking is an excellent inventive course of, and could be accomplished with no cash, the sisters shot their first ever quick movie in a sizzling air balloon, 2000 meters up within the air. After highschool commencement the sisters moved to Germany to be taught extra in regards to the European theater and movie scene. After a 12 months of full-time research and work in theater and movie in Passau, Munich and Konstanz, Bianca & Dilara determined to maneuver to North America to increase their data and profession on the opposite aspect of the world.”
Day of a Lion is a manufacturing of Foscht Twins Leisure. Watch the trailer beneath.
