Focus Features<\/a> has boarded for international rights and will distribute internationally by Universal Pictures International (UPI).<\/p>\n\n\tDetails of the \u201cStages\u201d plot have also been revealed, with the film following a young dancer at an elite ballet school finally earns the lead in a prestigious recital, but her focus is shattered by a family tragedy. Mizuno herself was a ballet dancer and trained at the Royal Ballet School before dancing with companies including English National Ballet, Dresden Semperoper Ballet and Scottish Ballet.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe production\u2019s creative team includes cinematographer Wyatt Garfield (\u201cLate Fame,\u201d \u201cA Different Man\u201d), costume designer Neesha Tulsi Champaneria (\u201cIsh\u201d), production designer Anna Rhodes (\u201cUrchin,\u201d \u201cRye Lane\u201d), editor Shahnaz Dulaimy (\u201cTop Boy\u201d) hair and make-up artist Natasha Lawes (\u201c100 Nights of Hero,\u201d \u201cHow to Have Sex\u201d), casting director and BAFTA-winner Lucy Pardee (\u201cDie My Love,\u201d \u201cAftersun\u201d) and the OBE and multi-award-winning choreographer Hofesh Shechter.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cSonoya\u2019s script is beautiful and heartfelt, and we\u2019re thrilled to be bringing it to the screen with her,\u201d Ritzenberg, whose London-based Agile Films is behind the upcoming musical horror-romance \u201cStuffed,\u201d starring Jodie Comer and Harry Melling. \u201cShe\u2019s assembled a wonderful cast and creative team, and stepped into directing with real confidence and instinct. We can\u2019t wait for audiences to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tJulie Delpy is represented by Tavistock Wood and Management Production Entertainment. Kathryn Hunter is represented by Adam Hogan and Alexandra Stockley at Hamilton Hodell. Kate Dickie is represented by Maryam Hunwick (Hunwick Associates) and Taylor Jefferson (The Artists Partnership). Takeshi Hira is represented by Gersh and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein. Emma D\u2019Arcy is represented by Dane Millard at Roxane Vacca Management in London and by Hylda Queally at CAA in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameras have started rolling on \u201cStages,\u201d the directorial debut of \u201cEx Machina,\u201d \u201cDevs,\u201d \u201cCivil War\u201d and \u201cHouse of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,168105,96,58015,237968,237969,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-719401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-emma-darcy","tag-entertainment","tag-focus-features","tag-julie-delpy","tag-takehiro-hira","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}