Producers Garry McGee (McMarr LTD), and Kelly Rundle and Tammy Rundle (Fourth Wall Films) are pleased to announce that "Jean Seberg: Actress Activist Icon" is an Official Selection at the 2021 Raindance Film Festival in London.
Raindance is the largest independent film festival in the U.K. and it is rated among the top 10 international festivals for independent filmmakers. "Jean Seberg" will have its international premiere at the Curzon Hoxton Cinema in London on the evening of Thursday, November 4, 2021.
“We are honored that the true story of Jean Seberg’s life and contributions to cinema will be featured at this prestigious European film festival,” said co-producer Garry McGee. “The film has been a labor of love for the three of us.”
Jean Seberg receives the key to the city. (Courtesy Jean Seberg Orpheum Theater Collection)
Selected from 18,000 aspiring actresses world-wide at age 17, Marshalltown, Iowa’s Jean Seberg made her acting debut in Otto Preminger’s 1957 Saint Joan and starred in Hollywood films Lilith, Paint Your Wagon, and the blockbuster Airport, among others. She is best known for her performance with co-star Jean-Paul Belmondo in director Jean-Luc Godard’s groundbreaking French New Wave film Breathless.
Seberg’s offscreen civil rights activism and her financial support for the Black Panther Party made her a target of the F.B.I.’s COINTELPRO and their plan to “neutralize” her initiated a downward spiral leading to her mysterious and untimely death in Paris.
Produced by award-winning filmmakers Garry McGee (McMarr, Ltd.), Kelly Rundle and Tammy Rundle (Fourth Wall Films), “Jean Seberg: Actress Activist Icon” is the first documentary film to focus on the private side of the international movie star, combining exclusive interviews with Jean’s family, friends and colleagues with never-before-seen private photographs, home movies, and rare film clips.
Producers Tammy & Kelly Rundle and Garry McGee.
“Jean Seberg: Actress Activist Icon” was funded in part with grants from Humanities Iowa, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Iowa Arts Council. The Historical Society of Marshall County served as a fiscal sponsor for the project.
Amy & Adams' Amy and Mark Adams-Westin.
The film features original music by St. Paul, Minnesota musicians Mark and Amy Adams-Westin of Amy & Adams. Mark, who was a friend of Jean's, was also interviewed for the documentary.
The Rundles’ films have received nine Mid-America Emmy® nominations. Garry McGee is the author of “Jean Seberg: Breathless” and co-author of “Neutralized: The FBI vs Jean Seberg” and “The Films of Jean Seberg”. He received a Regional Emmy® nomination in the writing category for The Last Wright.
Fourth Wall Films is an award-winning independent film and video production company formerly located in Los Angeles, and now based in Moline, Illinois.
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