Anonymous Content, Impact Partners Team For “Mistress Dispeller” Documentary; ‘Stray’s Elizabeth Lo Directing
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content and Impact Partners have teamed to produce a new doc on a China-based “mistress dispeller,” to be directed and produced by award-winning filmmaker Elizabeth Lo (Stray).
Plans for a scripted adaptation of the documentary are also in the works.The as-yet-untitled feature watches as the mistress dispeller is hired by couples in crisis to break up affairs and save their marriages by any means necessary.
Shifting perspectives between husband, wife and mistress, the film is billed as a strikingly intimate story of love and betrayal, as well as a potent exploration of how class, capital and culture collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China.The project produced in association with CMP is being co-financed by Anonymous Content, Impact Partners and CMP, having been developed in association with The Concordia Fellowship.
Dawn Olmstead, Jessica Grimshaw and Nick Shumaker will exec produce on behalf of Anonymous Content, alongside Jenny Raskin, Lauren Haber and Geralyn White Dreyfous for Impact Partners, with Kelsey Koenig and Marni Grossman as co-executive producers.
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