ABOUT THE PROJECT

LOGLINE
Laura is a young woman with a troubled past who seizes a chance at a fresh start with Will, a charming drifter, and his soulful, young son Georgie, only to realize that Will abducted Georgie as an infant.

SYNOPSIS
THE BEASTS & THE CHILDREN is a haunting, psychological thriller with a courageous woman at the center of the story, written and to be directed by Rachel Feldman, whose recent feature film LILLY, starring Patricia Clarkson, is currently on Netflix.

BEASTS embraces a commercial genre through a female lens. “Women-in-jeopardy” films often default to tropes that focus on women who made dumb mistakes, but BEASTS centers on a complex woman who finds a way to outsmart a dangerous man by listening to her gut, following a North Star of compassion. Dealing with themes of how one surmounts childhood trauma, BEASTS illuminates that precious juncture when nature and nurture are still pliable, when a child could turn to light or darkness.

Feldman is a 30-year veteran director in dramatic television (“The Rookie”, “Criminal Minds”, “Blue Bloods”) whose lifelong dream of making feature films was realized last year with LILLY. With only 8% of the top 250 films being directed by women, BEASTS will be Feldman’s all-important “follow-up feature,” that has alluded many women directors in the past.

Actor Thomas Sadoski will play the lead male antagonist character, Will. Tommy is an award-winning stage and screen actor and human rights activist who starred in Feldman’s previous feature, LILLY. Tommy is best known for starring opposite Reese Witherspoon in the Oscar-nominated film, “Wild,” with Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried in the Apple series “The Crowded Room,” is best-known for playing Don Keefer in the award-winning Aaron Sorkin HBO series “The Newsroom” and the CBS comedy “Life in Pieces.” opposite Diane Wiest.

PROJECT TYPE Narrative Feature

DIRECTOR Rachel Feldman
SCREENWRITER Rachel Feldman

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