Fiona Shaw, Katherine Waterston & Chaske Spencer Set For Indie Drama ‘Park Avenue’ From Director Gaby Dellal
02.05.2023 - 16:03
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Fiona Shaw (Andor), Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice) and Chaske Spencer (The English) have entered production in NYC on Park Avenue, a new indie drama from Sundance alum Gaby Dellal (On a Clear Day), who directs from her script written with Tina Alexis Allen.
A production of Rimsky Productions and Washington Square Films, Park Avenue follows a mother and daughter who, over a fraught six weeks, reveal secrets, unravel lies and ultimately lay bare the ties that bind. Paralyzed by her life wrangling cattle in Alberta, Canada, Charlotte (Waterston) jumps into her Ford Bronco, flees her over-controlling husband, and lands back in her childhood Park Avenue apartment where she takes refuge with her mother Kit (Shaw). Rediscovering the boy she loved, now her grown doorman Anders (Spencer), and the life she left at 18, the mother and daughter explore shared history, unshared truths and find a way to face both love and loss.
Diana Phillips (Bad Lieutenant, Alfie) is producing the film, with Dorothy Berwin (Carol, 3 Generations) and Josh Blum (Margin Call, Wendy and Lucy) serving as executive producers. Others aboard the project include cinematographer David Johnson (Hilary and Jackie), production designer Katie Fleming (The Forty-Year-Old Version) and costume designers Stacey Jansen (Wendy) & Thomas Shuster (A Quiet Place Part II).
“PARK AVENUE is my love letter to the New York of the movies I grew up watching,” said Dellal in a statement to Deadline, “a celebration of the unique character of a building, peopled by a melee of men and women who have known each other for decades and the loyal, old-fashioned doormen who guard them.”
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