DuBois Ashong’s Supernatural Thriller Stars Andrea Riseborough
Amin Joseph, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Gavin Warren,
Victoria Hill, Starletta DuPois, and Judith Scott Round Out the Cast
Los Angeles, August 19 – Production started this week on GEECHEE, the supernatural thriller backed by Stuart Ford’s fast-growing independent content studio AGC Studios, it was announced today by AGC’s Chairman and CEO Ford. The film, which is shooting at Lantica Pinewood in the Dominican Republic, was on the eve of production when it was shut down in March due to Covid-19.
In addition it was also announced that Amin Joseph (Dope, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Baywatch, The After Party, FX’s Snowfall, USA’s Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G., CBS’ S.W.A.T.), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Tesla, HBO’s Girls, AMC’s NOS4A2, Netflix’ The Punisher), Antoinette Crowe-Legacy (Epix’s Godfather of Harlem), Gavin Warren (First Man, CBS’ NCIS: New Orleans, Netflix’ Daybreak), Victoria Hill (First Reformed, The Chaperone, Starletta DuPois (The Notebook, Big Momma’s House, ABC’s Lost), and Judith Scott (ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder) round out the cast led by Andrea Riseborough, whose feature credits include Oblivion, Birdman, Nocturnal Animals, The Death of Stalin, and The Grudge, and TV credits include Netflix’ Bloodline, Paramount’s Waco, and Amazon’s ZeroZeroZero, in the atmospheric and suspenseful horror thriller from writer/director DuBois Ashong.
Jamie Foxx/Datari Turner Productions are co-producing GEECHEE along with AGC’s Head of Film Linda McDonough and SVP of Film and Television Glendon Palmer. AGC’s Ford and Miguel Palos, Andrea Scarso and Jamie Jessop of Ingenious Media, and Ricardo del Rio are onboard as executive producers. The film is being financed by AGC Studios in association with Ingenious Media.
Andrea Riseborough stars in this sophisticated supernatural thriller where the mysterious Gullah Geechee culture in the South Carolina Sea Islands clashes with gentrification, cultural appropriation and the legacy of slavery, providing a uniquely terrifying experience.
Ashong, a graduate of AFI’s Directing Fellowship, has won numerous awards for his shorts, including Where the Water Runs, Run, and Life is What You Make It. Joining Ashong is cinematographer Isiah Donté Lee (Netflix’s Burning Sands, Lena Waithe’s Boomerang) who reunites with production designer Erik Robert (Netflix’s Burning Sands).
The announcement follows on the heels of a busy production period for AGC. The indie studio has wrapped production on a host of film and TV projects, including Neil Burger’s sci-fi thriller VOYAGERS, starring Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Fionn Whitehead, and Colin Farrell; Tate Taylor’s feature comedy BREAKING NEWS IN YUBA COUNTY, starring Oscar® winner Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, Regina Hall, Golden Globe® winner Awkwafina, and Wanda Sykes; revenge thriller THE SECRETS WE KEEP, starring Noomi Rapace and Joel Kinnaman; and started production this week on the second season of sci-fi television series WAR OF THE WORLDS, starring Gabriel Byrne and Daisy Edgar-Jones, which premiered on EPIX earlier this year. AGC is a co-financier and partner with CNN Films on two documentary feature films: the recently released JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE, and LADY BOSS: THE JACKIE COLLINS STORY, which in post-production. In addition, AGC is a co-producer and co-financier and the international distribution partner on Roland Emmerich’s forthcoming sci-fi action epic MOONFALL; is in pre-production on QUEENPINS, from directors Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, starring Kirsten Bell, Leslie Jones and Vince Vaughn; and is also in pre-production on the television adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s NEWS OF A KIDNAPPING for Amazon Studios.
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About AGC STUDIOS
AGC Studios (www.agcstudios.com) was founded and launched by Chairman and CEO Stuart Ford in February 2018 as a platform to develop, produce, finance and globally license a diverse portfolio of feature films, scripted, unscripted and factual television, digital and musical content from its dual headquarters in Los Angeles and London. The new studio’s Hollywood output has a wide-ranging multicultural focus, designed for exploitation across an array of global platforms including major studio partnerships, streaming platforms, traditional broadcast and cable television networks and independent distributors, both in the US and internationally.
AGC Studios is initially backed by three key strategic investors: Latin American private asset management firm MediaNet Partners (https://medianetpartners.com/en/; Image Nation Abu Dhabi (https://imagenationabudhabi.com/), one of the leading media and entertainment companies in the Arabic-speaking world; and leading Silicon Valley entrepreneur and chairman of Fibonacci Films, Greg Clark. Chief Operating Officer Miguel Palos is also a stakeholder in and co-founder of the business with Ford.
AGC Studios has three principal operating subsidiaries covering production, distribution and finance. AGC Productions develops and produces a diverse multicultural slate of mainstream English language feature film and TV projects. Aside from traditional Hollywood output, dedicated sub-divisions within AGC Productions is focused on generating material for Latino and Urban audiences as well as music-driven IP. The television output will include scripted series, unscripted and reality projects, factual content and content specifically created for digital platforms. AGC International operates a substantial international film and television licensing and distribution platform, building on Ford and his management team’s lengthy track record at the forefront of licensing content to major studios, independent studios, broadcasters and streaming platforms globally. Finally, AGC Capital provides development, production and post-production financing to both AGC Productions’ output as well as to select third-party produced film and TV productions via a portfolio of equity, senior and mezzanine debt, soft money and bridge-capital financial products.
This article originally appeared on August 19, 2020 on agcstudios.com