God’s Pocket Q&A at the film’s world premiere

Park Pictures Features’ God’s Pocket, which premiered last weekend at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in the prestigious Dramatic Competition, has been sold to IFC Films for U.S. distribution.  Directed by John Slattery of Mad Men fame and lensed by Park’s Lance Acord, the Philadelphia-set dark comedy stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a part-time crook and local fixer.  Richard Jenkins, Christina Hendricks and John Turturro also star.

One of two Park Pictures Features titles in competition at this year’s festival, God’s Pocket was produced by Park’s Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Sam Bisbee and Lance Acord.

Producers Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Sam Bisbee, director John Slattery and Lance Acord at the “God’s Pocket” Sundance premiere

God’s Pocket stars Hoffman as Mickey, a man who is caught up in the tumultuous aftermath of his son’s accidental death. Named after the blue-collar neighborhood of South Philly featured in the movie, the film received critical accolades, including positive reviews from publications such as Vanity Fair, Paste and the New York Post. “Slattery shows real promise as a director, guiding his actors with ease and effectively evoking a very specific time and place,” raved Flavorwire. The Wall Street journal called the film, “a Mad Men reunion.”

The feature is the first directed by John Slattery, who is known for his work as an actor in Becker, Will and Grace, Ed, Arrested Development, and Mad Men, and has directed several episodes of the latter.

Park Pictures also premiered Maya Forbes-directed Infinitely Polar Bear in the Sundance 2014 Dramatic Competition. The feature stars Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana. For more information on Park Pictures’ 2014 Sundance films, check out this article.