Ian Olds' upcoming film "BURN COUNTRY"

By: Cinetic Marketing & PR
 
NEW YORK - Dec. 3, 2016 - PRLog -- BURN COUNTRY is an upcoming stylish noir thriller film by talented director Ian Olds.  It is co-written by both Ian Olds and Paul Felten.  It is also co-produced by Caroline von Kuhn and Jennifer Glynn.  The film is scheduled to be released December 9, 2016.

In BURN COUNTRY, Osman (Dominic Rains) leaves behind his life as a fixer for Western journalists reporting on the war in Afghanistan.  He lands in a small bohemian town in Northern California, living on the couch of his friend's mother (Melissa Leo) and working as a crime reporter for the local newspaper.  Restless and eager to penetrate the mysteries of his new home, he strikes out on his own, befriending the unstable hot tub craftsman Lindsay (James Franco) and an elusive local actress Sandra (Rachel Brosnahan). But when Lindsay goes missing under troubling circumstances and Osman goes after him, he is drawn deep into the backwoods of this small town. As things take a dangerous turn and an unfamiliar form of violence burbles up around him, Osman is forced to confront the increasingly untenable reality of his new life.

The film is both intriguing and dynamic to watch by the talented director Ian Olds.  The indie film is also well casted with Melissa Leo, James Franco, Rachel Brosnahan and Dominic Rains.  Looking forward to future works by all parties.  More information may be found on http://www.facebook.com/burncountrymovie and http://www.instragram.com/burncountrymovie.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

Ian Olds (Director, Co-Writer) is a director of both narrative and documentary work. Directing credits include the Iraq war doc Occupation: Dreamland (released theatrically by Rumur Releasing, short-listed for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and winner of a 2006 Independent Spirit Award), Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi (winner of top jury prizes at Tribeca and Madrid, acquired by HBO and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism), and the doc/fiction hybrid Francophrenia (Rotterdam, Tribeca, True/False, Abu-Dhabi, Hot Docs). Olds short narrative films have played numerous festivals including Sundance, Los Angeles and Clermont-Ferrand. He was awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, five separate grants from SanFrancisco Film Society, a Princess Grace Award and a Media Arts Fellowship sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Olds received his MFA from Columbia University's Film Division, was named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine and was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Screenwriters Lab. Olds was also the editor of the split-screen feature adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying directed by James Franco (2013 Cannes Film Festival, Un Certain Regard).

Paul Felten (Co-Writer) received his B.A. from The Evergreen State College and his M.F.A. from Columbia University's Film Division. His writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and in the anthology Lost and Found: Stories From New York (ed. Thomas Beller). A 2011 Sundance Screenwriting Fellow and recipient of the SFFS/Hearst Screenwriting Grant, he is the author, with Ian Olds, of the scripts for the short film BOMB, the experimental feature Francophrenia, and the forthcoming Zeroville.Felten is currently co-directing (with Joe DeNardo) his script for Slow Machine, a microbudget 16mm feature shooting in and around NYC.

Caroline von Kuhn (Producer) serves as the Managing Director of the Camden International Film Festival (Maine), coming from Tribeca Film Festival after the Film Society of Lincoln Center (NYFF) and Doha Tribeca Film Festival (Qatar). von Kuhn is a narrative producer/director whose directing work includes LIKE THE WATER (her debut feature) and I, PEER (a US/UK/Norwegian theatre production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt with the National Theatre of Norway). She is currently producing Ian Olds' THE FIXER (Tribeca Film Festival 2016). von Kuhn has a BA in Financial Economics from the University of Virginia and an MFA in Art History from University of Manchester (UK).

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