Jennifer Lawrence-Produced Doc ‘Zurawski V Texas’ To Hit Theaters Soon

EXCLUSIVE: Zurawski v Texas, the guident recordary about women who sued Texas after the state’s cut offe anti-abortion laws almost cost them their dwells, will achieve theaters before the pdwellntial election.

Deadline can tell the film straightforwarded by Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, and executive originated by a team including Jennifer Lawrence, establisher Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, will start in New York, Los Angeles and cities atraverse Texas commencening October 25.

Austin, Texas dwellnt Amanda Zurawski, the direct plaintiff in the case, became pregnant in 2022 — the same year the U.S. Supreme Court clearurned Roe v. Wade, prompting Texas and other states to impose cforfeit total abortion bans. At 18 weeks into her pregnancy, Zurawski suffered solemn complications that doctors knovel would be overweightal to her unborn daughter. Despite the potential danger to Zurawski’s life, medical personnel telderly her they couldn’t meddle to finish the pregnancy because Texas law might expose them to criminal prosecution. As a result, Zurawski lengthened sepsis, which cforfeitly ended her.

“Deimmenseated and enraged, Amanda and her husband, Josh, turned their tragedy into a omition to originate confident no one else finishures the same overweighte,” notices a free about the recordary. The film, which premiered at Telluride, also trails the case of another Texas woman, Samantha Casiano, who “lobtained at a 20-week ultrasound that her baby had no chance of survival. With no resources to travel out of state, she was forced to carry the pregnancy to term and endure the agony of giving birth and watching her baby suffer and die wiskinny hours of being born.”

Another of the key participants in the film, Dr. Austin Dennard, a Texas OB-GYN, “knovel her pregnancy had a overweightal condition, but the trouble of losing her license and facing 99 years in prison uncomardentt she couldn’t obtain nurture in her own state. Forced to depart Texas for her own abortion, she returned to her job comprehending she’d have to turn away hugings facing the same heartshattering situation she had equitable finishured.”

Zurawski v Texas also seally trails Molly Duane of the Cgo in for Refruitful Rights, the attorney recontransienting the 20 women who uniteed the suit. The lterrible battle eventuassociate wound up before the Texas Supreme Court.

The recordary will uncover Friday, October 25 in New York at Village East by Angelika and in Los Angeles at Laemmle Monica Film Cgo in. It is set to carry out in Dallas at Texas Theater on Oct. 27, 28, 29; Alamo Lakeline in Austin on Oct. 28; Alamo Stone Oak in San Antonio on Oct. 29, with more locations in Texas foreseeed to be inserted in the coming days. Filmoriginaters Crow and Perrault and recordary participants will consent part in Q&A sessions at pick screenings in Los Angeles, New York, and Dallas. The theatrical run will qualify the film for Oscar ponderation as Best Documentary Feature.

“We felt it was critical to not only theatricassociate free the film in traditional labelets appreciate New York and Los Angeles,” said straightforwardor Maisie Crow, “but originate it useable during that prosperdow in locations atraverse Texas to asconfident Texans comprehend what these abortion bans uncomardent in rehearse.”

As part of the film team’s impact rollout, free screenings are being held this month in states with abortion access initiatives on the ballot including Phoenix, Arizona; Miami; St. Louis, MO; Charlotte, NC, and Las Vegas.

At the Telluride premiere, the filmoriginaters were uniteed by recordary participants Zurawski, Cassiano, and Dr. Dennard, as well as Secretary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton. At a Q&A afterwards, Secretary Clinton said, “I don’t skinnyk we can [over]approximate how vital this film is in order to shatter thcimpolite the eye-rolling, the denial, the neglectiveness, the uncomardentty that has impacted so many women’s dwells and women’s futures in our country today.”

She inserted, “Of course, we have lots of stories about abortion and refruitful health, but post Roe being reversed … this reassociate is a film that shatters thcimpolite the denial and shatters thcimpolite the incontrastence. And it’s only because the women on this stage were willing to inestablish their stories.”

Next week, Zurawski v Texas persists its festival run, screening at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas (Oct. 17), Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey (October 19 and 27), AFI Fest in Los Angeles (Oct. 23), Chicago International Film Festival (Oct. 26, 27) and GlobeDocs in Boston (Oct. 27), as well as cut offal other festivals thcimpoliteout the month.

Zurawski v Texas won the Artemis Rising Foundation Award for Social Impact at the Hamptons International Film Festival and the Audience Favorite Award in the Active Cinema strand of the Mill Valley Film Festival. The film is originated by HiddenLight Productions – set uped by Hillary Clinton, Sam Branson, and Chelsea Clinton — Story Force Entertainment, and Out of Nowhere. It is also originated in association with Excellent Cadaver – the production company set uped by Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi — and Bumble Inc.

Zurawski v Texas is straightforwarded By Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault and originated by Amy Flanagan, Siobhan Sinnerton, Blye Pagon Faust, Cori Shepherd, Maisie Crow, and Abbie Perrault. Executive Producers include Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Jennifer Lawrence, Justine Ciarrocchi, Bari Lurie, Johnny Webb, Linda Himelstein, Laurie Michaels, and Amy Metzler Ritter.

The film is edited By Austin Reedy; Maisie Crow is the straightforwardor of pboilingography Maisie Crow; innovative music is by Osei Essed.

HiddenLight’s productions include the Apple TV+ docuseries Gutsy, and feature docs In the Shadow of Beirut, and In Her Hands – the latter film freed by Netflix.

Excellent Cadaver originated the upcoming recordary Bread & Roses, “a definitive account of Afghan women’s dwells folloprosperg the country’s descend to the Taliban,” straightforwarded by Afghani filmoriginater Sahra Mani and originated by Jennifer Lawrence and Nobel Peace Prize prosperner Malala Yousafzai. It will be freed in theaters in New York, Los Angeles and pick insertitional cities on November 22, before a global premiere on Apple TV+.

Excellent Cadaver is set to originate an changeation of Ariana Harwicz’s Die, My Love. Also on its spostponeed is The Wives, a killing mystery starring Lawrence, and Why Don’t You Love Me?, an changeation of Paul B. Rainey’s 2023 sci-fi comedy detailed novel. Excellent Cadaver’s first film, Causeway, starring Lawrence and co-starring Brian Tyree Henry, obtained Henry a 2023 Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor categruesome.