New screening poster from Bankside Films: 7 July 2014
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(Via itsoktobeyou.org)
Update from a casting agency in South Africa: 5 June 2014
Steven Shainberg (Secretary, Fur) paid us [Cast Serve] a flying visit to "chat" to a selection of South African actors, then gave the go-ahead to cast about two dozen delightfully quirky character parts for The Big Shoe.
While "aarghrrr-arrghing" their way through two years of pirate auditions has been fun, many Cape Town and Johannesburg actors leaped at the chance to strut their stuff with characters from the hidden world of shoe-fetishists. Believe it or not, after our initial round of auditions, a healthy clutch of dead pirates have caught the eye of Mr. Shainberg!
Cast Serve also have "The Big Shoe" listed on their site as a being one of their 'Current Projects'.
(Via @flippysgardenia/ @Mel452)
Status: 18 October 2014
Location: South Africa
Producer: Andrew Lazar - Richard Middleton - Christina Weiss Lurie
Producer/Director: Steven Shainberg
Writer: Mickey Birnbaum - Steven Shainberg
Cast: Jim Sturgess - Kristen Stewart - Elizabeth Banks
Mad Chance/ Tango Pictures
VOX3 Films
Status: September 2014
Location: South Africa
Producer: Andrew Lazar - Richard Middleton - Christina Weiss Lurie
Producer/Director: Steven Shainberg
Writer: Mickey Birnbaum - Steven Shainberg
Cast: Jim Sturgess - Kristen Stewart - Elizabeth Banks
Mad Chance/ Tango Pictures
VOX3 Films
Hanway Films
( Via @Mel452)
Bankside Films has been confirmed as the new sales company for "The Big Shoe," now listed on their website in Pre-Production.
London-based sales outfit Bankside Films is the new sales company on board Steven Shainberg’s comedy-drama The Big Shoe.
Jim Sturgess, Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Banks and Klaus Maria Brandauer are set to star in the story of a gifted shoe designer (Sturgess) forced to break free from a family who want to cheapen his art for their own commercial gain. Stewart will play the designer’s muse.
Written by Shainberg and Mickey Birnbaum, new backing for the film comes from Bankside and South Africa’s Azari Media. The shoot is planned for April 2014.
Andrew Lazar (I Love You Philip Morris) of Mad Chance Productions produces, while executive producers are Christina Weiss Lurie, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross and Anton Ernst.
CAA is packaging and reps North American rights.
Bankside’s head of sales and marketing Stephen Kelliher, said: “We are huge fans of Secretary so when the opportunity to be involved in Steven Shainberg’s next feature arose, we knew that we had to do it. It is a highly original story from an extraordinary director who has attracted a sensational cast to the project. We know that international distributors are going to be as excited about this film as we are and we look forward to presenting the film to them here at the AFM.”
More details via Bankside Films:
THE BIG SHOE is a daring and comedic romance about an unusual, creatively stifled shoe designer, Nate and his newfound muse, Delphi, who inspires him to resume his brilliant designs. Denied the chance by his family to design high-end women's shoes, Nate Arbinger, 34, refuses to have anything to do with the family’s industrial footwear business while his father is still alive. Following his death, Nate returns home for the funeral, knowing that his mother, Irene, and older sister, Ellen, 30s, desperately want him to revive and revamp the company but he has little interest in fulfilling their wishes.
His lack of engagement prompts Irene to hire MK, 50s, a therapist who specializes in treating foot fetishists, in order to woo Nate back to work. MK, in turn, hires Delphi, 20s, a foot model and sex worker to act as Nate’s muse. Inspired by the beautiful Delphi with whom he is clearly falling in love, Nate begins to create his most beautiful work. But when the family seizes control of his new line of shoes and separates him from his muse, he suffers a breakdown until MK intervenes to restore an unexpected and surprising harmony to his life and helps him to find Delphi again.
(Via @KstewAngel)
Synopsis via Production Weekly:
A gifted shoe designer, Nate, is forced to break free from a family who want to cheapen his art for their own commercial gain. “The Big Shoe” is a touching an sexy love story and a classic boy-to-man coming-of-age tale, with the colorful backdrop of the fashion/shoe industry. When a muse is strategically ‘planted’ along Nate’s path by his mother, he begins to embrace the mad “logic” of the creative drive, allowing his own deep impulses and wishes to finally be expressed and experienced. He’s revealing to her and to the world his secret. And, while it may make no real practical“sense” to do his art (shoemaking), Nate must.
(Via @Mel452)
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