EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive pursuit, UTA has signed filmmaker Stephanie Ahn for representation in all areas.
Ahn is coming off the momentous Sundance debut of her directorial debut, Bedford Park, which won the Special Jury Prize for Debut Feature Film after premiering in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. One of the few films to secure a major distribution deal, it was snapped up for worldwide distribution by Sony Pictures Classics, alongside Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, Noah Segan’s The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, and David Wain’s Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, in a big year for the arthouse label.
Starring Moon Choi and Son Suk-ku, Bedford Park chronicles what happens after a fateful accident brings together the lives of a Korean-American woman struggling between her loyalty to her family and the pull toward her passions, and a forsaken ex-wrestler trying to right the wrongs of his fractured past. When they form an unlikely bond, they must choose between a life fated by their circumstances or one led by their hearts.
Prior to Bedford Park, Ahn was an editor of films like Winter’s Bone, The Girl, and My Old Lady. Her screenplays have been finalists at Cinequest, the Austin Film Festival, Final Draft’s Screenwriting Contest, Screencraft’s Film Fund, Rooftop’s Filmmaker Fund, and featured at The Gotham’s Independent Project Forum.
Based in Brooklyn, the filmmaker continues to be represented by Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
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