Topic, First Look Media’s new streaming service, has acquired the North American streaming rights to “Meats,” Ashley Williams’ short film that made its world premiere in the shorts program at the Sundance Film Festival, Topic announced Wednesday.
Topic also acquired a first look opportunity for any projects based on or related to “Meats.”
“How I Met Your Mother Actress” Williams starred in and directed “Meats,” which looks at how a pregnant vegan struggles with her newfound craving to eat meat. The story was inspired by the ideas of the ethics of eating food as posed by writers like Michael Pollan, Camas Davis and Jonathan Safran Foer.
Williams stars in “Meats” alongside a real-life master butcher named Giancarlo Sbarbaro. She also produced with Neal Dodson.
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Topic also acquired a first look opportunity for any projects based on or related to “Meats.”
“How I Met Your Mother Actress” Williams starred in and directed “Meats,” which looks at how a pregnant vegan struggles with her newfound craving to eat meat. The story was inspired by the ideas of the ethics of eating food as posed by writers like Michael Pollan, Camas Davis and Jonathan Safran Foer.
Williams stars in “Meats” alongside a real-life master butcher named Giancarlo Sbarbaro. She also produced with Neal Dodson.
Also Read: Sundance 2020: Streamers Spent Big and Documentaries Are All the Rage
“There were many incredible shorts that premiered at Sundance this year, and...
- 2/5/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: How I Met Your Mother director Pamela Fryman and actress Ashley Williams, Margin Call producer Neal Dodson and producer Alan Grossbard are teaming up on an adaptation of the Penguin Random House-published memoir Killing It: An Education.
Fryman, who directed all but 12 of the 208 episodes of Fox’s hit comedy How I Met Your Mother, will direct the feature adaptation of Camas Davis’s memoir, which is due to star Williams.
The memoir follows Davis’s journey from unemployed journalist to France where she entrenches herself in the world of an artisan butcher community and then back to Portland, Oregon which was in the throes of a food revolution.
The team has also acquired screen life rights to Davis who will serve as a producer and consultant on the project.
The book inspired actress Williams to write, direct and star in Sundance short Meats which centers on a vegan...
Fryman, who directed all but 12 of the 208 episodes of Fox’s hit comedy How I Met Your Mother, will direct the feature adaptation of Camas Davis’s memoir, which is due to star Williams.
The memoir follows Davis’s journey from unemployed journalist to France where she entrenches herself in the world of an artisan butcher community and then back to Portland, Oregon which was in the throes of a food revolution.
The team has also acquired screen life rights to Davis who will serve as a producer and consultant on the project.
The book inspired actress Williams to write, direct and star in Sundance short Meats which centers on a vegan...
- 1/27/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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