Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo joins Ian Olds’ THE FIXER (written by Paul Felten and Ian Olds) as Gloria, the ex-hippie sheriff of a small, darkly eccentric Northern California town. Leo joins James Franco who plays Lindsay, an unstable hot-tub craftsman. Olds and Felten wrote the part of Gloria with Melissa Leo in mind, who previously worked with Olds’ in his short film BOMB (Sundance Film Festival, 2007).
THE FIXER tells the story of Osman, an Afghan journalist exiled from his war-torn country to a small bohemian community in Northern California. When he attempts to turn his menial job on the local police blotter into “Afghan-style” coverage of local crime he gets drawn into the backwoods of this small town—a shadow Northern California where sex is casual, true friendship is hard to come by, and an unfamiliar form of violence burbles up all around him.
Debbie DeLisi of DeLisi Creative joins the project in an international, national and local search for the leading role of Osman, the charismatic 28-year-old journalist from Afghanistan. DeLisi Creative was part of the team behind the successful search for the Somali pirates in Captain Phillips. Thanks to the San Francisco Film Society’s SFFS/KRF Filmmaking and a partnership with the Afghan Coalition, DeLisi will be holding an open audition outside of San Francisco in Fremont, California for the film’s lead Afghan actor on Sunday, February 16.
The Fixer is produced by Caroline von Kuhn, ACE Productions and Vince Jolivette, Rabbit Bandini, with a summer shoot in Northern California and Morocco (to double for Afghanistan).
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