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Sony Pictures Classics Buys Embeth Davidtz’s Directorial Debut ‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’

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Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Sony Pictures Classics has landed worldwide rights to “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” a dramatization of Alexandra Fuller’s memoir about growing up in the Rhodesian civil war.

The movie, which premiered at Telluride Film Festival and also screened at Toronto, was written and directed by Embeth Davidtz in her feature debut.

The actress, best known for “Schindler’s List,” “Matilda,” “Junebug” and “Bicentennial Man” also portrays the mother of the main character (Fuller’s on-screen surrogate).

Set in 1979 and 1980, “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” follows 8-year-old Bobo, who lives on her family farm in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) at the end of the Zimbabwean War for independence.

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