has directed since his Oscar-nominated film The Florida Project. FilmNation will sell the film globally.was one of the first projects to safely and successfully shoot during the COVID-19 pandemic, using rigorous safety protocols.
Baker wrote the script with frequent collaborator Chris Bergoch, and the film stars Simon Rex, Bree Elrod and Suzanna Son.is a darkly comedic film about Mikey Saber, a 39-year old “suitcase pimp.” That is the kind of pimp who lives off of women in the adult film industry. Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, Mikey decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living.
The film is produced by Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Alex Saks, and Shih-Ching Tsou. Jackie Shenoo will serve as Executive Producer and the Director of Photography is Drew Daniels. FilmNation Entertainment’s Glen Basner and Ben Browning confirmed the deal: “If ever there were a time for Sean Baker’s deeply human and darkly comic filmmaking, it is now. In
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