RADiUS proudly announced today that it has acquired US rights to HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT – ahead of tomorrow’s NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL premiere – by celebrated filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie (LENNY COOKE, DADDY LONGLEGS). Having recently world premiered at Venice before screening in Toronto, HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT blends fiction, formalism and raw documentary as it follows a young heroin addict (Arielle Holmes) who finds mad love in the streets of New York. The film is based on Holmes’ soon-to-be-published memoir Mad Love in New York City. Co-starring Caleb Landry-Jones (X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, BYZANTIUM), HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT also features street legend Buddy Duress and gore rap phenom Necro.
The film is a co-production between Iconoclast Films – the company behind Harmony Korine’s SPRING BREAKERS – and Elara Pictures, the latter of which is a new production company recently formed by the Safdies together with Sebastian Bear-McClard and Oscar Boyson. Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie wrote the screenplay. The executive producers are Charles-Marie Anthonioz, Mourad Belkeddar, Jean Duhamel and Nicolas Lhermitte. Sean Price Williams is the Director of Photography and Benny Safdie and Ronald Bronstein edited the film.
An instant American classic, HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT has garnered extraordinary reviews drawing comparisons to REQUIEM FOR A DREAM and Korine’s KIDS.
RADiUS has targeted a second quarter 2015 release.
According to RADiUS Co-Presidents Tom Quinn and Jason Janego: “HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT is a benchmark in American cinema. We were completely entranced with the story and mesmerized by the characters. Josh and Benny have made a complex, sophisticated, mind blowing film that we feel privileged to bring to audiences.”
The Safdie brothers go on to say: “RADiUS is a team of intelligent, confident, and radical thinkers who believe in themselves and, consequently, our film. We’re grateful and eager to collaborate with them on bringing HEAVEN to the masses.”