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Pierce Brosnan will star in Brett Marty’s sci-fi thriller “Youth,” an adaptation of a short film Marty directed and co-wrote in 2016, the Highland Film Group announced on Wednesday.

Sales for the film will launch at next month’s Marché du Film Online. Highland Film Group is handling international rights while CAA Media Finance is handling domestic sales. The sci-fi thriller is co-written by Marty, Josh Izenberg, and Amelia Whitcomb. Jib Polhemus, Paul Schiff and Martin Brennan will produce alongside executive producers Laura Bickford and Hannah Leader, and co-producer Joshua Izenberg.

In the near future, “Renewal’ is the world’s hottest commodity, a procedure to remind your body’s biological clock. Joel (Brosnan) is an ad-tech engineer who is about to retire at age 70, but his company doesn’t want to lose him and pays for him and his wife to Renew. His wife returns in her twenties, but Joel’s procedure goes wrong,...

Pierce Brosnan is set to star in Youth, the feature film directorial debut from writer/director Brett Marty based on his 2016 short of the same name. Marty, Josh Izenberg and Amelia Whitcomb co-wrote the film adaptation, which is being produced by Jib Polhemus, Paul Schiff, and Martin Brennan.

The pic is set in a future not far from now, where “Renewal” has become the world’s hottest (and most expensive) commodity — a procedure to rewind your body’s biological clock back to its prime. Joel (Brosnan), an ad-tech engineer, is about to retire at age 70, after a lengthy career. Not wanting to lose him, his company pays for him and his wife Alice to Renew — a luxury promising a second chance. Alice emerges from the operation in her 20s, but for Joel, the procedure goes tragically wrong. Rather than make him younger, his aging begins accelerating rapidly, and his remaining years evaporate into mere weeks.

Project based on writer/director Brett Marty’s 2016 short film.

Pierce Brosnan will star in the the thriller Youth, which Highland Film Group will introduce to buyers at the Cannes virtual market later this month.

Writer/director Brett Marty’s feature adaptation of his 2016 short film of the same name stars Brosnan as Joel, an ad-tech engineer approaching retirement who takes part with his wife in a procedure that reverses the body clock.

While his wife emerges looking like she is in her 20s, the procedure leaves Joel ageing rapidly. In his desperation to reverse that process, Joel uncovers dark...

Project based on writer/director Brett Marty’s 2016 short film.

Pierce Brosnan will star in the the thriller Youth, which Highland Film Group will introduce to buyers at the Cannes virtual market later this month.

Writer/director Brett Marty’s feature adaptation of his 2016 short film of the same name stars Brosnan as Joel, an ad-tech engineer approaching retirement who takes part with his wife in a procedure that reverses the body clock.

While his wife emerges looking like she is in her 20s, the procedure leaves Joel ageing rapidly. In his desperation to reverse that process, Joel uncovers dark...

The International Documentary Association (Ida) aren’t necessarily the most indicative of where the Academy’s documentary branch will go, but they’re important and prestigious so it’s always good to see where their members go. This year’s selection of nominees is quite a highbrow collection with a heavy slant towards politics and activism with three very high profile contenders battling it out against a pair of smaller-scale, yet mightily intimidating, documentaries about prejudice some 30 years apart.

Best Documentary Feature

The Act of Killing

Blackfish

Let the Fire Burn

The Square (Nyff review)

Stories We Tell

I am a big fan of Jehane Noujaim’s up-to-the-minute look at the Egyptian democracy crisis, The Square, Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s disturbing look at SeaWorld’s animal cruelty, Blackfish, and Sarah Polley’s fragmented family tree, Stories We Tell, but the other two – sadly, two I have not yet had the chance...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' documentary branch has selected a short list of eight documentary short films that will compete for the 86th Academy Awards. The docs cover a wide array of subject matter, with many of them focusing on inspirational stories. Malcolm Clarke's The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life is a portrait of 109 year-old holocaust survivor Alice Herz Sommer, who offers her views on how to live a long and happy life, while Joshua Izenberg's Slomo follows Dr. John Kitchin, a neurologist who abandons his career to take up rollerblading along the Pacific

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This year’s festival, which ran June 19-23, hosted more than 19,000 attendees with 53 films screened representing 30 countries.

AFI Docs presented by Audi (formerly Silverdocs) has unveiled its Audience Award winners for 2013.

Yoruba Richen’s The New Black [pictured] scooped the Audience Award for Best Feature. The film examines how African-American voters have become divided on the issue of gay marriage and focuses on the fight for marriage equality in Maryland.

The Audience Award for Best Short went to Joshua Izenberg’s Slomo which follows John Kitchin, a doctor who traded his medical practice for rollerblades, and explores the neurological and spiritual joys of slow acceleration.

Festival director Sky Sitney commented: “While this was a transformational year for the Festival with an expanded footprint into the heart of Washington, DC, at our core remains a commitment to celebrating the best in the documentary form.

“The tremendous enthusiasm and response to the film program and its related panels surpassed even our...

AFI Docs has announced the winners of their audience awards, with Yoruba Richen's Lgbt rights take "The New Black" winning best feature and Joshua Izenberg's "Slomo" winning best short. Read our take on "The New Black" here, as well as our picks for the 5 best new films from the festival. Full press release and winners below. Washington, DC, June 25, 2013 – AFI Docs presented by Audi (formerly Silverdocs) announced today its distinguished Audience Award winners, culminating a five day festival including the screening of 53 films representing 30 countries in iconic DC locations on the National Mall and Penn Quarter area as well as at the historic AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD. The Festival hosted over 19,000 attendees, including 845 filmmakers, film subjects, journalists, industry, esteemed panelists and special guests, including Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Letters To Jackie director Bill Couturié,...