Uma Thurman’s “Girl Soldier” finds financingFebruary 24, 2016 - 12:47 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Imprint Entertainment has just come aboard to help finance Girl Soldier, based on Kathy Cook’s book Stolen Angels: The Kidnapped Girls of Uganda, which awhile back drew the interest of Uma Thurman to star and produce. The move comes after Jojo Ryder and his Untouchable J. Productions joined the producers over last year’s holidays. He, in turn, brought in Imprint to help finance and produce the property. Let’s hear it for another indie film (and great story) getting a chance to see the light of day, Deadline said. The story of Girl Soldier follows the 1996 raid at a boarding school where a band of armed rebels abducted young girls to turn them into soldiers and sex slaves. A courageous teacher at the school, Sister Caroline, then tracked the rebels back to their camp and demanded the girls’ release. After that, 110 girls were returned to the nun’s care. Later, the nun took an anti-trafficking campaign all the way to the Pope and the UN. Imprint is actually working on a couple other features as well — the animated Groove Tails as well as Walkaway Joe for director John Pogue and producers Charles Gordon, Fred Fontana and the finance company’s Michael Becker. Ryder last produced the indie feature American Heist which starred Adrien Brody and Hayden Christensen. Girl Soldier has been in development for awhile but did not have financing. Becker will now join Ryder and Thurman on the project as a producer. Other producers are Rick de Oliveira, Brian Bullock and Jeffrey L. Williams. The screenplay was written by Karen Croner, Jonathan Marc Feldman and Stephanie Pinola. Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Pashinyan visits flood-hit region Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Saturday, June 8 visited the disaster area in the Lori province. €3.5 mln EU grant to support justice reforms in Armenia The European Union has paid €3.5 mln grant to Armenia within a €11mln program on Support to Justice Reforms. Yerevan reacts to Baku’s proposal to see Minsk Group abolition Alen Simonyan has declared that Armenia is taking steps aimed at concluding a peace treaty with Azerbaijan. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State to travel to Armenia Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs James C. O’Brien will travel to Yerevan on June 10-12. |