Miranda July is stepping behind the camera again. The award-winning writer-director is set to kick off production on her third feature, a press release has announced. Currently untitled, the heist pic is being produced by Plan B and Annapurna and scheduled to start filming in May.
The film “follows the story of Old Dolio and how her world is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join their biggest heist yet,” according to the release.
Also a well-known writer, novelist, and artist, July made her feature directorial debut with 2005’s “Me and You and Everyone We Know.” She also penned the script and starred in the romance about a performance artist and shoe salesman. The film took home the Camera d’Or at Cannes and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. July followed it up with 2011’s “The Future,” the story of a couple whose lives get turned upside down when they adopt a stray cat.
July’s books include “The First Bad Man” and “No One Belongs Here More Than You.”
In 1995 July launched Joanie 4 Jackie, an DIY underground network dedicated to women and girls making movies and sharing them with one another. “A challenge and a promise: Lady, you send me your movie and I’ll send you the latest Big Miss Moviola Chainletter Tape,” she wrote in a pamphlet for the project, originally known as Big Miss Moviola. “Riot Grrrl had permitted us to pick up guitars and sing about our lives with a passion that made mastery irrelevant. Could the same thing be done with movies?” she remembered thinking at the time. Last year the Getty acquired the video archive for Joanie 4 Jackie.
