13 Films Makes AFM Debut with VERY GOOD GIRLS, Starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen

Variety writes that fledgling production company 13 Films is debuting at the 2013 American Film Market with Naomi Foner's VERY GOOD GIRLS, starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen. The movie originally premiered at Sundance, but this is its first market screening.

Read the original report here.

VERY GOOD GIRLS, written and directed by Foner, also stars Boyd Holbrook, Demi Moore, Ellen Barkin, Richard Dreyfuss, Clark Gregg, Kiernan Shipka and Peter Sarsgaard. It was shot on location last year in New York.

The film tells the story of two lifelong best friends, both determined to lose their virginity as a rite of passage into the adult world. When they fall in love with the same boy, their quest threatens to tear their relationship apart.

Dakota Fanning ("Twilight Saga," "The Runaways") and Elizabeth Olsen ("Martha Marcy May Marlene," "Silent House") star as lifelong best friends, with Boyd Holbrook (The History Channel's "Hatfields & McCoys," "Milk") playing the love interest. Demi Moore ("Margin Call," "A Few Good Men") and Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss ("The Goodbye Girl," "Mr. Holland's Opus") play Olsen's parents. Tony Award Winning Actress Ellen Barkin ("The Normal Heart," NBC's "The New Normal") and Clark Gregg ("The Avengers," NBC's "The West Wing") play Fanning's parents. Supporting cast includes Kiernan Shipka (AMC's "Mad Men") as Fanning's sister and Peter Sarsgaard ("An Education," "Robot & Frank"), who plays Fanning's boss at her summer job. Jenny Lewis, formerly of the indie rock band Rilo Kiley, will serve as composer and music supervisor on the film.

Norton Herrick's Herrick Entertainment is producing and financing the project with Michael London's Groundswell Productions producing. Janice Williams, Lee Clay, Peter Graves, Hawk Koch, and Gale Anne Hurd are executive producers.

Foner has written several screenplays, including "Losing Isaiah," "Bee Season," and "Running on Empty," for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. VERY GOOD GIRLS marks her directorial debut.

13 Films is led by Tannaz Anisi and Tristan Weisgal.

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