God’s Pocket and Infinitely Polar Bear, Both Produced by Park, Will Compete in Dramatic Competition
Park Pictures Features’ latest narrative feature film offerings, the John Slattery-directed drama God’s Pocket and the dramatic comedy Infinitely Polar Bear (written and directed by Maya Forbes) have been chosen for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s prestigious Dramatic Competition. With Park Pictures Features’ debut film Robot & Frank a Sundance award winner in 2012, this marks the Manhattan studio’s second and third film at the festival.
God’s Pocket, with screenplay by John Slattery and Alex Metcalf, stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Christina Hendricks and John Turturro. The film follows Mickey (Hoffman), whose stepson Leon is killed in a construction “accident.” Mickey tries to bury the bad news with the body, but when the boy’s mother demands the truth, Mickey finds himself stuck between a body he can’t bury, a wife he can’t please, and a debt he can’t pay.
The film was produced by Park Pictures Features in association with Hoffman’s Cooper’s Town and Slattery’s Shoestring Pictures. Producers are Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Lance Acord, John Slattery, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Emily Ziff.
God’s Pocket stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Eddie Marsan.
Photo Credit: Lance Acord
Infinitely Polar Bear marks the directing debut for Forbes, recently named one of Variety’s Top 10 Directors to Watch. The film stars Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana. Set in the 70’s, the story follows a manic-depressive mess of a father, who tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two spirited daughters, who don’t make the overwhelming task any easier. Paper Street Films co-produced the film with Park Pictures Features in association with Bad Robot. The film was produced by Wally Wolodarsky, Benji Kohn, Bingo Gubelmann, Sam Bisbee and Galt Niederhoffer and it’s executive producers include JJ Abrams, Brian Burk, Austin Stark and Park’s Jackie Kelman Bisbee.
God’s Pocket stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Eddie Marsan.
Photo Credit: Lance Acord
About Park Pictures Features
Launched in the summer of 2010, Park Pictures’ features division is lead by producer Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee and Lance Acord. Kelman Bisbee and Acord are owners of Park Pictures, an award winning commercial production company with offices in New York, Los Angeles and London. Park’s debut into narrative film was the 2010 Academy Award Winning Short, “The New Tenants” by acclaimed Park director Joachim Back. Park Pictures Features first film “Robot and Frank,” starring Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard, James Marsden and Liv Tyler, directed by Park Picture’s Jake Schreier, premiered at Sundance 2012 where it won the prestigious Alfred P Sloan Feature Film Prize and was acquired by Sony/Goldwyn. Following the successful release of “Robot and Frank,” Park Pictures Features completed two feature films in 2013; “Infinitely Polar Bear” produced with Paper Street Films and Bad Robot, starring Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana, directed by Maya Forbes and “God’s Pocket” starring Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins, Emmy nominee Christina Hendricks and John Turturro, directed by John Slattery.