Fifth Season Sets Janice Lee & Kara Duncan For Posts As Vice President, Film Development And Production
19.01.2023 - 02:07
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Netflix exec Janice Lee has joined Fifth Studio as Vice President, Film Development and Production, with longtime team member Kara Duncan being promoted to the same role. The news comes as the global film and TV studio, formerly known as Endeavor Content, kicks off the year with four films heading to Sundance and another two soon heading to theaters.
As members of the team led by EVP, Film Development and Production, Alexis Garcia, Lee and Duncan will be responsible for expanding the studio’s slate of indie and big- budget features, made with top-tier talent for distribution on streaming platforms and in theaters. The pair will report to SVPs, Film Development and Production, Dan Guando and Negeen Yazdi.
After seeing major success at Sundance 2022 with Cha Cha Real Smooth, the Cooper Raiff Audience Award winner that went to Apple in the largest sale of the festival, Fifth Season is poised to return to Utah with two narrative film premieres and two documentary premieres in U.S. Competition. Its narrative titles are the psychological thriller Eileen, starring Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway, and the Dublin-centered musical Flora and Son, topped by Eve Hewson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Festival alum John Carney (Sing Street) wrote and directed the latter title, with William Oldroyd helming the former, based on the Otessa Moshfegh bestseller, from his and Luke Goebel’s script.
Fifth Season’s first Sundance-bound documentary, directed by Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn, is Going Varsity in Mariachi, examining the South Texas leader in world high school mariachi. The other, directed by Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto, is Aum: The Cult at the End of the World, which chronicles the events around the 1996