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Film crews are coming to the Upper West Side this week, and they’re bringing some real star power with them. “Still Life,” a New York-set drama led by Zoe Saldaña, is scheduled to shoot scenes in the neighborhood on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
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The production will be at and near West 60th Street and Columbus Avenue from Wednesday, November 11, through Friday, November 13, according to filming signage posted in the area and flagged by @OLV on X.Saldaña plays Carrie Ann, a celebrated photographer who’s lost her passion for art after her father’s death, according to Moviedelic. At a gallery opening, she meets Jeff, a successful advertising executive who’s hiding a serious medical secret. Grief and a shared sense of emptiness pull them together, and their relationship forces both of them to confront mortality, ambition and the choices that define them. Matthew Goode and Marcia Gay Harden co-star.
The film is written and directed by Alexander Dinelaris, who’s making his feature directorial debut. He won an Academy Award as a co-writer of “Birdman,” and he also co-wrote Tom Cruise’s “Digger” and Prime Video’s “The Mehta Boys.”
Dinelaris has written about these characters before. His play “Still Life” also centers on a photographer named Carrie Ann who shuts down at the height of her career, and a production of it closed on November 1, 2009.
There’s a family connection behind the camera too. Saldaña’s husband, Marco Perego, is producing the film alongside Rob Quadrino. Perego told Complex that he’s excited to be involved, and he described Dinelaris as both a mentor and a close friend.
Saldaña won an Oscar for “Emilia Pérez” and recently played Neytiri again in “Avatar: Fire and Ash.” Goode is known for “Downton Abbey,” “The Good Wife,” “Dept. Q” and “The Imitation Game.” Harden is also an Academy Award winner.
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