“She Said” is coming to London early. Together Films and Can’t Buy My Silence (CBMS) are presenting an unique preview screening of the Maria Schrader-directed #MeToo drama, with all funds going to CMBS’s marketing campaign in opposition to the misuse of NDAs with survivors of sexual assault. A press launch introduced that the fundraising occasion shall be held November 17 on the Ham Yard Hotel.
Written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz (“Colette”), “She Said” is predicated on journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s Pulitzer-winning investigation into powerhouse producer Harvey Weinstein’s lengthy historical past of sexual abuse. Their story helped convey the #MeToo motion into the mainstream.
Carey Mulligan (“Promising Young Woman”) and Zoe Kazan (“The Plot Against America”) star as Twohey and Kantor, respectively, within the adaptation of the New York Times journalists’ bestselling e-book of the identical identify.
Founded by Zelda Perkins, a former assistant to Weinstein, and Dr. Julie Macfarlane in 2021, CBMS pushes for “legislative and regulatory change that will make NDAs unenforceable for anything other than their original purpose – the protection of [intellectual property] or trade secrets,” per the discharge.
The screening shall be adopted by a reception and a Q&A led by BBC journalist Emily Maitlis with Leinkowicz, Perkins, actress Samantha Morton, who performs Perkins in “She Said,” and Laura Madden, an Irish whistleblower who was assaulted by Weinstein.
Schrader gained an Emmy for guiding “Unorthodox,” Netflix’s restricted collection a couple of Jewish girl dwelling in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn who leaves her organized marriage and escapes to Berlin. Her final function, 2021’s “I’m Your Man,” was Germany’s submission to the International Film class on the Oscars.
“She Said” hits U.S. theaters November 18 and opens within the UK November 25.