MK2 Films has boarded “Blaze,” the feature directorial debut of award-winning Australian painter Del Kathryn Barton, which stars Simon Baker (“High Ground”) and Julia Savage (“Sweet Tooth”).Now in post-production, the film stars Savage as Blaze, a teenager who is the sole witness to a shocking crime.
Struggling to make sense of what she saw, she unleashes the wrath of a dragon coming from her wild imagination.
“Blaze” will combine live action with VFX and stop-motion animation techniques.MK2 Films has acquired world sales rights to the film and is kicking off sales at Venice, where the banner is presenting Mounia Akl’s “Costa Brava, Lebanon” (with Participant and Endeavor Content) in the Horizons section.Barton previously co-directed “The Nightingale and the Rose,” an animated short film based on an Oscar Wilde story that featured Barton’s illustrative style, with a voice cast headlined by Mia Wasikowska and Geoffrey Rush.
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