Shana Feste is making her horror debut. The writer-director will follow up father-daughter dramedy “Boundaries” with “Run Sweetheart Run,” a feminist horror-thriller about a date gone horribly awry. Blumhouse Productions and Automatik are joining forces to co-produce the pic in association with Quiet Girl Productions. Deadline broke the news.
“Run Sweetheart Run” sees “a blind date turns violent,” the source details. “The woman has to get home on foot through Los Angeles as she’s pursued by her date.”
Feste is among the project’s executive producers.
“Learn to write your own films because it will be up to you to define who you want to be in this business,” Feste told us when we asked her advice for other female directors. “If you wait around for amazing scripts to be sent to you, you won’t be making many films.”
Feste’s first feature, “The Greatest,” premiered at Sundance in 2009. Since then, the prolific writer and director has released 2010’s “Country Strong,” 2014’s “Endless Love,” and “Boundaries,” which made its world premiere at SXSW this March and is now in theaters. Inspired by a trip Feste took with her own father, the road trip movie follows an estranged daughter (Vera Farmiga) and father (Christopher Plummer) making their way down the West Coast.
“Mudbound” helmer Dee Rees is also working on her horror debut. The upcoming untitled pic centers on black lesbians living in rural America.
