Breaking Glass Signs Dark Fairy Tale Drama INHERITANCE Starring Mark Webber

Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired World Rights to writer/directors Laura E. Davis's and Jessica Kaye's INHERITANCE starring Philadelphia-native Mark Webber (Green Room, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World). Breaking Glass acquired World Rights to the film in May in a deal negotiated between Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff and Marc Simon of Fox-Rothschild, and will be debuting the film for sales at the Cannes Film Festival. Breaking Glass is planning a healthy festival run leading into a limited Fall theatrical, and finally a VOD/DVD release for the holiday season.

Described as evoking "...an echo of Thomas Vinterberg's THE CELEBRATION" (The Hollywood Reporter), INHERITANCE held its world premiere at SXSW. Breaking Glass Pictures will debut the film in the international market in the 2017 Marché
du Film at the Cannes Film Festival.

Along with Webber, INHERITANCE also stars Jessica Kaye ('One Life to Live'), Daniel Ahearn, Myrna Manzanares, and Shamira Gill-Card. The film's production team includes Producers Beatrice von Schwerin, Mark Webber, Aengus James, and Executive Producers Steven J. Berger, and Colin King Miller.

INHERITANCE is the tale of a young woman who learns her estranged father has died and returns with her brother and new lover to her childhood home of Belize. There, she must face her past while fighting for intimacy in her present.

Laura E. Davis is a writer/director and a former Michener Fellow in screenwriting. Her first feature was the award-winning feature THIN AIR, which played at festivals domestically and internationally. Her pilot script, THE COMMONS, placed on the 2017 Bitch List, a ranking of the top rated unproduced scripts by or about women. Another pilot script, MANDEVILLE, ranked at the 2015 Austin Film Festival competition. Other films include an experimental short film starting Sarita Choudhury (HOMELAND) and a documentary on HIV/AIDS in Paris. She teaches filmmaking at UFM in Guatemala and was the Austin chapter leader of Film Fatales, a collective of female directors.

Jessica Kaye is a writer, director and actress. After studying Literature and Performance Studies at Harvard, she worked in New York as an actress in film, theater, and television.
She has an MFA in Acting from Columbia University and has starred in the feature films ALL GOD'S CREATURES and CONDITION. She also played the baddie Rebecca Lewis in the long running ABC soap opera ONE LIFE TO LIVE. In 2008, she produced and starred in GARGOYLE, a SAFTA (South African Film and Television Award) nominated short film shot in Johannesburg. A recipient of the Samuel and Lorenza Gary Memorial Award and the Harold C. Lloyd Foundation Scholarship, Jessica received an MFA in Film Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2013. Her short film ANGEL played at festivals and was bought and distributed by KQED TV. Her documentary, FABIAN DEBORA, A LIFE FOR ART, screened at numerous festivals and won several awards including Best Documentary Short at Cinequest. Jessica has directed branded content for Google Glass and Zady. Her most recent short film, SHORTAGE, was executive produced by James Franco.

"Writer/Directors Laura E. Davis and Jessica Kaye have crafted a dark and delirious noir about buried secrets, sexual tensions, and hidden betrayals surrounding a woman and her lover who travel to Belize to visit the woman's estranged father and mysterious brother", said Richard Ross, Co-President at Breaking Glass. "This SXSW pulpy gem is a perfect addition to the Breaking Glass family."

"INHERITANCE is about how the pain of our past can shape who we are today, holding us back in our lives and in our relationships" said writer/directors Laura E. Davis and Jessica Kaye. "We are excited for audiences to go on the dark and stormy ride of our film and we hope it inspires people to see themselves and their own lives differently."

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