Cate Blanchett Set For Alice Birch’s Feature Directorial Debut ‘Sweetsick’ At Searchlight
Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett (Tár, Nightmare Alley) will star in Alice Birch‘s Sweetsick, which will rep the filmmaker’s feature directorial debut at Searchlight.
Sweetsick, which Birch also wrote, follows a mercurial woman (Blanchett) with a strange and piercing gift – the ability to see what others most intimately need, often at great personal cost – who sets out on a journey home. Cameras rolls this fall in the UK and Greece.
Pic is produced by Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Theo Barrowclough from House Productions (Conclave, Mint, The Wonder) alongside Blanchett and her Dirty Films banner. Lee Groombridge will also produce. Film4 will executive produce and co-finance.