Anima is the narrative feature debut of writer-director Brian Tetsuro Ivie, a documentarian, and it has a fascinating pair of stars: Alien Earth’s Sydney Chandler and Shōgun’s Takehiro Hira. But now it’s added a quartet of actors who make this film seem even more intriguing.
The synopsis for Anima, according to Deadline, is this: “The film tells the story of an impulsive young woman and a reclusive older man who launch on a poignant cross‑country road trip. Their mission: to preserve his failing consciousness via an experimental memory‑upload procedure at a cutting‑edge facility.”
Presumably Chandler is the impulsive young woman and Hira the reclusive older man. Now joining the road trip are Tom McCarthy (The Wire), Lili Taylor (Outer Range, pictured above), Marin Ireland (The Umbrella Academy), and Maria Dizzia (Agatha All Along).
In a statement, director Ivie said, “When I was writing Anima, I would often come back to films like The Station Agent and Say Anything to remind myself of a tone I’d always loved. And now to work with Tom McCarthy and Lili Taylor, two of the geniuses behind those films, is incredible to me. Marin Ireland and Maria Dizzia have also been giants of the indie space for so many years. I really can’t wait for the world to see what we’ve created together.”
No release date has been announced for Anima.
