#76 - Sarah Jones: Sell/Buy/Date

Tony-winning writer and performer, Sarah Jones, is making her
directorial debut when her new film Sell/Buy/Date which Cinedigm
will be releasing in theaters in LA on October 14th, NYC on October
21st, and streaming in November on Amazon Prime. The wide release
announcement exclusive is out with Variety here. The deeply
personal film is a witty documentary / narrative hybrid following
Jones and her multicultural characters (she plays 5 characters in
the film!) on a journey exploring our relationship to the sex
industry via Sarah’s hilarious comedy and social justice
lens. Sell/Buy/Date is written, and directed by Sarah Jones,
and is executive produced by Meryl Streep with appearances by Ilana
Glazer and Bryan Cranston.  “I want the whole world to know
about Sarah Jones. I think she's an extraordinary artist--a once in
a lifetime artist,” said Meryl Streep.  Sell/Buy/Date has seen
various iterations over the past six years, first starting as
Sarah's off-Broadway one-woman show in 2016, which she then
remounted in Los Angeles in 2018. At the start of the pandemic
lockdown in 2020, she brought some of her stage characters to life
on social media for her #yesimsarahjones IG Live Show to ignite
conversation around the black lives matter movement. And now, Jones
is ready to debut her Sell/Buy/Date feature film. In the past Sarah
and the live version of the show received feature coverage in Vogue
and Vogue.com, The Economist, The New York Times, Town &
Country, WMag.com and much more.   About Sarah Jones:
Called “a master of the genre” by The New York Times, Sarah Jones
is a Tony Award-winning solo performer, writer, comedian and
activist. She recently made her debut as a film director with the
hybrid documentary Sell/Buy/Date, in which she also stars. The
film, which is executive produced by Oscar-winner Meryl Streep,
world premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and will be distributed
(theatrical and streaming) by Cinedigm this fall. Jones is
mainly known for her multi-character one-person shows, including
Broadway hit Bridge & Tunnel, also originally produced by
Streep, and the critically-acclaimed play Sell/Buy/Date, which
inspired the film. She has also appeared in various film and TV
projects, including co-starring (along with Elisabeth Shue,
Giovanni Ribisi, and Julie Delpy) in the Netflix series, On the
Verge; Noah Baumbach’s Oscar nominated film Marriage Story opposite
Scarlett Johansson, and on the final season of Broad City. Jones
also appeared in Chris Rock’s Good Hair documentary, and, at the
request of Vogue and Anna Wintour, co-created and starred in a
short film with designers Tommy Hilfiger, Donna Karan, Zac Posen,
Diane Von Furstenberg and Vera Wang, directed by Fisher Stevens for
the CFDA Awards. Additionally, Jones’ writing credits include the
Golden-Globe nominated Showtime series SMILF. Renowned as “a
one-woman global village,” she has also given multiple main-stage
TED Talks garnering millions of views, performed for President and
First Lady Obama at the White House, and given a performance at The
World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland as the first artist on
its stage normally reserved for heads of state. She has also been a
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, raising awareness of gender, ethnic,
racial, and economic injustice and disparities, including in the
United States. Jones recently launched Foment Productions, a social
justice-focused entertainment company aligned with her progressive
activism, with Sell/Buy/Date as its first production. The film
tackles the intersection of race, gender justice, the economy, and
various other issues through the unexpected lens of the sex
industry. Using humor, investigative interviews, celebrity cameos
(including Rosario Dawson, Ilana Glazer, and Bryan Cranston) and
her own personal story, the film highlights how this topic is
closer and more relevant to all of our lives than we may realize.
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