EXCLUSIVE: Wolfe Video has acquired writer-director Elena Oxman’s debut Outerlandssetting a North American digital release for November 26.
Following its world premiere at SXSW in March, the drama starring Asia Kate Dillon (Orange is the New Black, Billions, John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum) will be available on Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home.
Outerlands stars Dillon as thirtysomething Cass, who hustles jobs as a server, nanny and party drug dealer to make rent on their tiny San Francisco apartment. Cass agrees to babysit their work crush Kalli’s (Louisa Krause) 11-year old daughter Ari (Ridley Asha Bateman), but when Kalli fails to return, memories of Cass’ own difficult childhood begin to resurface, sending them on a healing journey with Ari.
“The iconic red Wolfe Video logo meant so much to me in my teenage years when I was discovering Queer cinema,” said Oxman, adding, “Seeing the Wolfe Video logo howl at the start of our film reminds me of the long chain of filmmakers whose shoulders we stand on as we imagine new possibilities for LGBTQ+ cinema.”
At SXSW, Dillon praised Oxman for giving them the opportunity to play a “lead character who is in almost every frame of the film, who is a non-binary trans character, but that’s not what the movie is about.” They were attracted to a story about “how to heal our own trauma, our own wounds.”
“There is so much erasure of non-binary trans folks, and also just history. I feel like any time we can put ourselves in a photograph, on film, document ourselves in some way, because no one is doing that for us and we really have to do it for ourselves — I feel like this film is now in the canonical history of queer films. Like, if this one had come out when I was a kid, it would have changed my life,” said Dillon, adding, “I just feel really proud that this film now sits in like the historical canon of queer films because it’s like, we were here. You can’t deny it … or you can, but we don’t care.”
Also starring Lea DeLaria and Daniel K. Isaac, Outerlands is produced by Marc Smolowitz for 13th Gen, Oxman for Vajra Films, Dillon for Mirror/Fire Productions, Allison Estrin and Henry Russell Bergstein, with executive producers David Brind, Marc Smolowitz, Julien Swanson, Jessica Christiansen, Lisa Kleiner Chanoff and Gary Syman.
The acquisition was negotiated by Evan Schwartz, head of content for Wolfe Video, and Smolowitz on behalf of the filmmakers.
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