Trailer & Poster to Drift starring Cynthia Erivo
Utopia has released the trailer and poster to Drift, directed by Anthony Chen and starring Two-Time Academy Award nominee Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat. The film opens in New York on February 9th, 2024, with a national expansion to follow.
Drift follows a young Liberian refugee named Jacqueline (Erivo) who has barely escaped her war-torn country to a Greek island. She offers massages to tourists in exchange for one or two euros to battle her hunger, while her daily struggle for survival keeps the memories that haunt her at bay. She meets an unmoored tour guide (Shawkat) and the two become close as they each find hope in the other.
Susanne Farrell (Dirty God, Hope Street) and Alexander Maksik adapted the screenplay for the big screen from Maksik’s acclaimed novel A Marker to Measure Drift. Additional cast members include Ibrahima Ba, Honor Swinton Byrne, Zainab Jah, Suzy Bemba, and Vincent Vermignon.
Oscar nominated producer Emilie Georges (Call Me By Your Name) and Naima Abed, co-founders and co-CEOs of the production company Paradise City and Oscar winning producer Peter Spears (Nomadland, Call Me By Your Name) of Cor Cordium are producing with Cynthia Erivo & Solome Williams under their Edith’s Daughter banner and with Anthony Chen’s Giraffe Pictures. Konstantinos Kontovrakis and Giorgos Karnavas are serving as co-producers for Heretic.