DARCINE’S YEAR

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Art-house and festival audiences, viewers of A24 / Searchlight-type dramas.

• People drawn to character-driven stories about grief, class, human resilience, and hope.

TALENT

• This project can attract strong, recognizable talent in both the lead and key supporting roles—actors looking for grounded, awards-caliber material.

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• This film sits alongside Moonlight, Nomadland, and The Dallas Buyers Club: intimate, naturalistic, rooted in faces and real locations. We start with warm, composed suburban images, illustrating stability. But as Darcine’s life unravels, the camera loosens. We move into cooler, harsher palettes of public housing and institutions; nights in the car lit by streetlights and neon. The closer Darcine gets to losing everything, the closer we get to her face.

LOCATIONS

• The story is stylized, but contemporary, set in real locations—suburbs, public housing exteriors, urban streets, nursing homes, hospitals, a sandwich shop.

COMPARABLE FILMS BY SCALE AND IMPACT

• Nomadland (2020) (budget $5M; Worldwide gross $39M)

• The Dallas Buyer’s Club (2013)  (budget $5M; Worldwide gross $55M)

• Moonlight (2016) (budget $1.5M; Worldwide gross $66M)

• Anora (2024) (budget $6M; Worldwide gross $57M)