Project Detail

Jerimiah Terminator LeRoy

Name: Jerimiah Terminator LeRoy
Director: Justin Kelly
Genre: Drama
Released: 2018
Duration: 108 mins

Synopsis

A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author JT LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
Based on the true story of two women who created the persona of a boy-wonder author JT LeRoy, fooling the literary community, the fashion world, and the Hollywood elite for six years before the hoax was finally revealed.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Gala Presentations - World premiere

Details

Year: 2018
Type of project: Features
Running time: 108 mins
Director: Justin Kelly
Producer: Mark Amin, Jeff Beesley, Thor Bradwell, Cassian Elwes, Dave Hansen, Phyllis Laing, Gary Pearl, Giri Tharan, Patrick Walmsley, Julie Yorn
Co-Producer: Evan Arnold
Executive Producer: Nadine de Barros, Tyler Boehm, Tracy Christian, Anders Erden, Wayne Marc Godfrey, Margot Hand, Jere Hausfater, Robert Jones, Justin Kelly, Phyllis Laing, Jed Root, Devan Towers, Cami Winikoff
Editor: Aaron I. Butler
Screenwriter: Justin Kelly (screenplay), Savannah Knoop (memoir)
Director of Photography: Bobby Bukowski
Production Designer: Jean-Andre Carriere
Composer: Tim Kvasnosky
Principal cast: Kristen Stewart, Diane Kruger, Laura Dern, Jim Sturgess, Courtney Love

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Canada, US, UK coproduction

A Buffalo Gal Pictures (CA), Black Leather Jacket (US), Crosby Street Films (US), Fortitude International (US), LBI Entertainment (US), Sobini Films (US), Thirty Three Management (US), The Fyzz Facility Film One (UK)

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Sales Company

Fortitude International

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Suite 1040
Sherman Oaks
CA 91403
USA

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