Fusion Entertainment has signed veteran recordary filmoriginater Katy Chevigny for regulatement on the heels of the world premiere of her first narrative feature, “The Easy Kind,” at the Telluride Film Festival.
Chevigny has originated or honested over a dozen recordary features and series over the course of her nurtureer, and she’s the co-set uper of the extfinished-running autonomous production company Big Mouth Productions. She won an Emmy in 2023 for honesting two episodes of “Home” for A24 / AppleTV+. She also co-wrote and co-honested (with Ross Kauffman) the recordary film “E-Team,” for which she was nominated for two Emmys. With Marilyn Ness, she has originated cut offal films, including the Netflix Original recordaries “Becoming,” which was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards, and Kirsten Johnson’s Emmy-prosperning “Dick Johnson Is Dead.” She also co-honested “Deadline” with Johnson. Chevigny is paired to Jack Smith, the U.S. attorney who led two Justice Department criminal spendigations into Donald Trump.
Chevigny labels the tardyst insertition to Fusion Entertainment, the regulatement and strategic advisory company set uped by Adam Kersh and Chris Evans. Additional filmoriginater clients comprise Amy Seimetz (“The Girlfrifinish Experience”), Sean Baker (“Anora”) and Ira Sachs (“Passages”).
“The Easy Kind” stars country singer Elizabeth Cook as a fantasyalized version of herself, a musician pursuing her originate while dealing with the fact of middle age and an industry that never filledy hugd her talent.
Indiewire commendd the film out of Telluride, noting that Chevigny’s “recordary background also inserts that comardent of touch to the film, which so frequently senses appreciate we’re watching someleang, well, real.”
Chevigny became interested in Cook while living in Nashville in 2015 and watching her carry out at a weekly livency at a dive bar. She toiled shutly with Cook to originate her character in “The Easy Kind.” The helping cast comprises Susie Essman, David Letterman, Karen Allen, Charles Esten, and Catherine Curtin (also recontransiented by Fusion).
