Courtesy: Sundance Film Festival
Prior to the film’s premiere as Closing Night Film at Sundance 2018 on Friday Jan. 26, Park Pictures co-production Hearts Beat Loud landed a domestic distribution deal with Gunpowder & Sky and an international distribution deal with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions.
Hearts Beat Loud was executive produced by star Nick Offerman. The versatile actor plays a record shop owner in Brooklyn who starts a band with his college-bound daughter, played by Kiersey Clemons. Director Brett Haley worked with Park Pictures on his last film, The Hero, which the production company co-produced. The Hero premiered at Sundance 2017 where the film secured distribution with The Orchard.
Hearts Beat Loud was produced by Park Pictures, Houston King Productions and Burn Later Productions. The film’s producers include Houston King, Park Pictures’ Sam Bisbee and Sam Slater, and co-producers Amy Jarvela and Rowan Riley. Executive producers include Park Pictures’ Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Lance Acord and Theodora Dunlap, as well as Danny Rifkin, Frank Brenner, and Nick Offerman.
Critical acclaim for Hearts Beat Loud began a week before its premiere, with reviewers praising the film’s authenticity and performances.
“Haley’s 21-drum solo salute to the passage of time is, like Frank, merely fine. But he admirably keeps his characters’ victories small and their losses familiar, making his movie a ballad everyone can hum to.” – Variety
“Hearts Beat Loud is a feel-good, crowd-pleasing spark of life. Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons make for a wonderful musical group, but more importantly, they are a delightful father and daughter duo. The movie has endless charm and is the kind of movie every parent will want to see with their older kids.” – Slashfilm
“A light emptying-the-nest drama in which a father uses music as a ruse to keep his daughter from leaving home, Brett Haley’s Hearts Beat Loud threatens at moments to become a musical. It isn’t, which, given the melodramatic nature of the tunes it does offer, will be just fine with many music lovers of its elder protagonist’s age.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“Hearts Beat Loud is a movie about sincere love and everyday inclusion in America.” – LA Times
Hearts Beat Loud, the Sundance 2018 film An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn and documentary The Sentence are the seventh, eighth and ninth Park Pictures features accepted to the Sundance Film Festival for the sixth consecutive year.