Effingham County-based Medient Studios, Inc. announced today it will release Nick Cassavetes’ movie ‘Yellow’ on Aug. 29 in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago followed by a planned expansion nationwide.
‘Yellow’ has been screened at more than a dozen film festivals around the world, including Toronto International Film Festival, Tokyo International Film Festival, Munich Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival and SXSW among others.
The film also won the “Best Feature Film” award at the Catalina Film Festival in September 2013.
‘Yellow’ tells the story of Mary Holmes, played by Heather Wahlquist, a young substitute teacher who escapes from her everyday life by fantasizing bizarre parallel realities such as a world peopled with Busby Berkeley dancers, Cirque du Soleil, Circus freaks and human farm animals where nothing is quite what it seems.
Along with Wahlquist, ‘Yellow’ stars Sienna Miller, Melanie Griffith, Lucy Punch, Gena Rowlands, David Morse, Daveigh Chase, Max Thieriot, Riley Keough, Ethan Suplee, Brendon Sexton and Ray Liotta.
“I guess what I’m interested in today is putting up on screen something that is consistent with what I see when I walk out my front door, and granted, I’m a little crazy, but ‘Yellow’ comes pretty darn close,” said Cassavetes, who wrote and directed ‘Yellow.’
Medient has announced plans to build a studio complex on 1,560 acres in Effingham County.