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About
BCDF strives to tell the kind of story movie lovers long to see—films that celebrate the human adventure, with its humor and passion, conflict and connection, and transformative moments of discovery.
BCDF is producing several films in 2021-2022, including THE PLOUGHMEN, directed by Ed Harris and starring Robert Duvall and Garrett Hedlund; TO LESLIE, starring Andrea Riseborough and Allison Janney; THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY, starring Kunal Nayyar, Christina Hendricks, and Lucy Hale; THE HATING GAME, starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell; and the NY Times bestselling supernatural romance franchise series HUSH, HUSH, which has recently entered production at Paramount+.
BCDF has produced a number of successful features over the last ten years, including four that have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Their films have included Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated talent (e.g. Al Pacino, Jesse Eisenberg, Jane Fonda, Vera Farmiga) and other award-winning actors such as Kirsten Dunst, Elizabeth Olsen, Evan Peters, Rebel Wilson, Asa Butterfield, Alexandra Daddario, and Zac Efron.
The Hating Game
Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is complicated by her growing attraction to him.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Hutchings
Cast: Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell, Corbin Bernsen
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
A.J. Fikry's wife has died, his bookstore is in trouble, and now his prized rare edition of Poe poems has been stolen. But when a mysterious package appears, its arrival gives him the chance to make his life over and see things anew. A NYT Bestseller.
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Hans Canosa
Cast: Kunal Nayyar, Christina Hendricks, Lucy Hale, David Arquette
Can You Keep a Secret?
Thinking they're about to crash, Emma spills her secrets to a stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger...Until she later meets Jack, her company's young CEO, who now knows every humiliating detail about her. Based on the blockbuster NYT bestseller.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Elise Durán
Cast: Alexandra Daddario, Tyler Hoechlin, Sunita Mani, David Ebert
Then Came You
A hypochondriac working as an airport baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Peter Hutchings
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Maisie Williams, Nina Dobrev, Ken Jeong
The Pirates of Somalia
In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself with the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Bryan Buckley
Cast: Evan Peters, Al Pacino, Melanie Griffith, Barkhad Abdi
The Ticket
A blind man who regains his vision finds himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession for the superficial.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Ido Fluk
Cast: Dan Stevens, Malin Akerman, Oliver Platt, Kerry Bishé
Why Stop Now
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Directors: Philip Dorling & Ron Nyswaner
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, Tracy Morgan
Liberal Arts
When 30-something Jesse returns to his alma mater for a professor’s retirement party, he falls for Zibby, a college student, and is faced with a powerful attraction that springs up between them.
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Josh Radnor
Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Josh Radnor, Zac Efron, Allison Janney, Richard Jenkins
Bachelorette
Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leslye Headland
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, Rebel Wilson, James Marsden, Adam Scott
Peace Love and Misunderstanding
An uptight New York City lawyer takes her two spirited teenagers to her hippie mother’s farmhouse in the countryside for a family vacation.
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olsen, Nat Wolff, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Higher Ground
A tight-knit spiritual community is thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. A chronicle of one woman’s lifelong struggle with belief, love, and trust.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vera Farmiga
Cast: Vera Farmiga, John Hawkes, Taissa Farmiga, Boyd Holbrook, Joshua Leonard
To Leslie
Inspired by true events. A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Morris
Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Allison Janney, Marc Maron, Stephen Root, Owen Teague, Andre Royo, Matt Lauria
