Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired world sales rights to Ugly Cry, the psychological thriller from writer-director Emily Robinson (Eighth Grade), […]
Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired world sales rights to Ugly Cry, the psychological thriller from writer-director Emily Robinson (Eighth Grade), which is set to world premiere at SXSW in the festival’s Narrative Spotlight section, Deadline reports ahead of the fest. The company will present the film at the EFM this weekend.
Robinson also stars in the film, which follows an actor who spirals down a “dark and dangerous path to perfection when they lose their dream role because of their ugly cry.”
Ugly Cry co-stars Ryan Simpkins (Fear Street: 1978), Aaron Domínguez (Only Murders in the Building), and Robin Tunney (The Craft, The Mentalist). Andrew Leeds (Barry), Heather Morris (Glee), Chalia La Tour (The Good Fight), Ray Abruzzo (The Sopranos), Sophie Von Haselberg (Give Me Pity, American Love Story), Josh Ruben (Werewolves Within), and Melinda McGraw (Mad Men) round out the ensemble cast.
“With Ugly Cry, Emily Robinson mines topics very fresh in our minds and takes from them something so wholly original,” Joe Yanick, founder of Yellow Veil Pictures, said in a statement. “Both tense and surprisingly funny, it’s a lived-in script that allows realism and genre conventions to fly together seamlessly. It’s a wonderful debut that is sure to please SXSW Audiences this March.”
