Circle Collective’s independent anthology What Doesn’t Float has secured a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement, paving the way for star-producer Pauline Chalamet (Sex Lives Of College Girls) to promote ahead of the imminent release in New York and Los Angeles.
Chalamet will do press next week to support the releases in New York on September 22 at Roxy Cinema and Los Angeles on October 6 at Brain Dead Studios. This is a timely boost to arthouse distributor Circle Collective. The New York opening day was almost sold out. “I am grateful that my colleagues and I will be able promote
What doesn’t Float, and I hope that the AMPTP/SAG are soon at the negotiating tables.” The precarious situation in which most of my colleagues, our hardworking crews and our writers find themselves in today is unsustainable.”The film comprises seven vignettes of New Yorkers at their wits’ end and is the first to be produced through Gummy Films led by Luca Balser, Chalamet, and Rachel Walden.
Balser directed, edited and scored the film, which also stars genre filmmaker-actor Larry Fessenden (
We Are Still Here), and Keith Poulson (PVT Chat).A roster of four celebrated independent cinematographers features Sean Price Williams (
GoodTime ), Hunter Zimny (The Scary of Sixty-First), Matt Clegg (We Are Not Cats! ), and Charlotte Dupre (Fairytale).What Doesn’t Float
will expand within the two markets and into others including Toronto, Columbus, Cincinnati, Kansas City, with international festival premieres to follow this autumn.‘Poor Things’ wins 2023 Venice Golden Lion
