TITLE: Jimpa
Section: Premieres
Director: Sophie Hyde
Logline: Hannah (Olivia Colman) takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde), to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, Jim (John Lithgow) — lovingly known as Jimpa. But Frances’ desire to stay abroad with Jimpa for a year means Hannah is forced to reconsider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront old stories about the past. Sophie Hyde, winner of the World Cinema Directing Award Dramatic for 52 Tuesdays (2014 Sundance Film Festival), returns with an expansive family portrait centered on Jimpa (John Lithgow), an aging, hedonistic patriarch living loud and proud in Amsterdam’s vibrant gay community.
Sales agent: Mounia Wissinger
Panelists: Sophia Hyde (filmmaker), Olivia Colman (actor), John Lithgow (actor), Aud Mason-Hyde (actor).
Key quotes: “I wanted to have a different work experience. I’d done a lot of work and not felt terribly fulfilled, just a couple of jobs where I’d thought, ‘I really want to work with someone that’s more creative and more of an actors’ director. And then my agent said, ‘Sophie Hyde has sent a script and I think you’d love working with Sophie Hyde.’ I thought, ‘Oh that sounds great!’ So I was already excited about reading the script because I wanted to work with a really good director. And then we met on Zoom and just got on, and I thought we would have a lovely, creative, gently, loving time working together. And I did also love the script and I was interested in playing Hannah.” – Olivia Colman
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