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New Camp X-Ray poster!

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IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Peter Sattler’s directorial debut “Camp X-Ray,” which stars Kristen Stewart as a Guantanamo Bay guard, the company announced Thursday.

Sattler also wrote the film, which was produced by Gina Kwon and executive produced by Emmy Ellison, Lindsay Williams, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, David Gordon Green and Sophia Lin.

Payman Maadi and Lane Garrison co-star in the movie, which premiered in competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

Stewart plays a young woman who joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small town roots, but ends up as a rookie guard at Guantanamo Bay. Her mission is far from black and white, as she is surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive male squadmates. When she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees (Maadi), both of their worlds are forever shifted.

“Peter Sattler has made a stirring, sensitive and thought-provoking film that features two powerhouse performances by Payman Maadi and Kristen Stewart,” said Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects/IFC Films. “Maadi proves once again that he is a force to be reckoned with and Stewart undoubtedly gives the best and most moving performance of her already remarkable career.”

The deal for the film was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, SVP of acquisitions and productions at Sundance Selects/IFC Films, with UTA Independent Film Group and André Des Rochers of Gray Krauss Stratford Sandler Des Rochers LLP on behalf of the filmmakers.

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The Hollywood Reporter
Writer-director Peter Sattler’s riveting first feature, Camp X-Ray, leaves aside the controversy surrounding Guantanamo Bay to focus instead on a personal drama of human connection and compassion, deftly drawn out of the mundane day-to-day of cellblock life. In essence a two-hander, it balances a powerfully internalized performance from Kristen Stewart, delivering perhaps her best screen work to date as an inexperienced military guard, against an equally compelling characterization from Payman Maadi as the long-term detainee who pierces her shell. Its psychological complexity and rich emotional rewards should ensure this expertly crafted if overlong film a significant audience.

HitFix Review: Kristen Stewart's solid performance anchors the probing, human 'Camp X-Ray' - B 
Camp X-Ray" is going to be a hard commercial sell, but the film has a delicate human heart, and it is ultimately rewarding. I think it's a strong indication of what Stewart can do with the right material, and it makes a case for Maadi as one of the most interesting character actors working right now. Solid, small, and sincere, "Camp X-Ray" offers an important perspective to a difficult conversation. 

Vanity Fair
You likely have strong opinion on Kristen Stewart's acting abilities. The Twilight movies turned you way on or way off. Well, throw that perception out the window.

BuzzFeed: Kristen Stewart Says Good-Bye To Twilight With Sundance’s “Camp X-Ray”
In Peter Sattler’s new film Camp X-Ray, which had its high-profile (thanks to its star) premiere at Sundance on Friday, Stewart plays, of all things, a guard at Guantanamo Bay. And she is very good in it. 

TheDailyBeast 
By the end of Camp X-Ray, you’re won over by Stewart’s layered turn as Cole, and Moaadi’s as the defiant Ali. It’s a role perfectly suited to her strengths—vulnerability and hidden courage—and few young actresses can hold a close-up like Stewart. 

Variety: Kristen Stewart and Payman Maadi channel Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter in this competent but politically suspect drama.
The two leads are excellent and play off each other deftly. Acting almost exclusively with his bearded face as seen through the cell window, Maadi (“A Separation”) calibrates precisely the character’s mix of humor, anger, despair and endurance. In a turn that will surprise and impress those who know her only from the “Twilight” films, Stewart is riveting, especially in the final scenes, where Sattler reverses the camera’s perspective so that Cole is the one viewed through the window, appearing as a sort of prisoner herself.

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Michael Perricone (sound re-recording mixer / supervising sound editor) tweets about mixing Camp X-Ray.

@LotusPost: Mixing #campxray with Will Files and Director Peter Sattler. Working over the weekend to make #sundance premiere.
— Michael Perricone (@LotusPost) January 5, 2014

You can see Cole (Kristen's character) in the background. (from the left: Michael Perricone, Peter Sattler and Will Files - sound designer)

Last day of the mix on Camp X-Ray with Peter, Will Files and me. Next stop #Sundance! #campxraymovie #KristenStewart pic.twitter.com/TtBMVp0cxG
— Michael Perricone (@LotusPost) January 7, 2014

Director Peter Sattler talks about Camp X-Ray and Sundance Film Festival. 

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Writer/director Peter Sattler is ready to tell a different kind of Guantanamo Bay story in one of this year's major competition films.

Peter Sattler's Camp X-Ray will undoubtedly stir the pot when it premieres on Thurs., Jan. 17, the first full day of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. First there are the political provocations: the film follows a young woman recently assigned to prison guard duty at Guantanamo Bay who finds herself befriending an inmate. Then there are both critics and fans of Kristen Stewart, anxious to see how the film subverts the actress' assumed evolution (and judging from the sold-out screenings, they latter will be coming out in throngs). Camp X-Ray marks Sattler's directorial debut, though it would be an ambitious project for even a seasoned filmmaker. Before it bows at Sundance '14, we talked to Sattler about his career, developing Camp X-Ray, and his hopes for this competition film:

Background: Sattler studied film at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he befriended filmmakers like David Gordon Green (who executive produced Camp X-Ray), Jeff Nichols and Craig Zobel. There he took to experimental filmmaking, directing the Student Academy Award-nominated short Newton. When Green directed his second feature, All the Real Girls, he grabbed his college buddies, including Sattler, to work as below the line crew. “I worked in the art department and I told him, 'I don't know the first thing about the art department,'” recalls Sattler. “And he said, 'That's OK, we'll work it out.'"

The Big Break: After years of working in art departments, Sattler turned a passion for screenwriting into a full-time job. With writing partner Geoff Davey, he tackled studio genre assignments and rewrite jobs, slowly putting his graphic design work behind him. In 2008, he set up an adaptation of the graphic novel Freaks of the Heartland at Overture with Green attached to direct. All the while, Sattler toiled away over Camp X-Ray, the result of a newfound obsession with character and classic storytelling.

Getting the Film Off the Ground: When Sattler's script for Camp X-Ray was production-ready, he handed it to Green, who had been anxious to help his former collaborator get a feature off the ground. Sattler explains Green's willingness to help him in simple terms: “David just wants to see movies made.” Together they attracted investors, along with a lead actress who gave Sattler's debut a star-power boost. “It was the script and David's involvement that got Kristen interested,” he says. “She took a huge risk, jumping on to this movie with a director who hadn't directed a feature, but I think she responded to the power of the script.”

When It All Seemed to Click: Knowing that many first-time directors stumble with style over substance, Sattler opted to shoot Camp X-Ray as “a very classic, very elegant film” that let the script and performances do the talking. So it wasn't until he met with Stewart and talked through the character of Amy that his vision began to coalesce. “The weird thing about Kristen is that there's Kristen Stewart the star and Kristen Stewart the actor,” he says of his lead. Together, they started asking questions that acted as foundation for the film's main action. Sattler rattles off examples: “Who is this girl? She didn't do that, she did this. OK, what did she do in high school? Was she involved in sports? Was she a virgin?” He says Stewart filled in many of the blanks and added dimension to the ideas he had put on the page.

For a low-budget drama, finding a Gitmo stand-in could prove difficult. But that's what the Internet is for. Sattler began researching and discovered that Guanatnamo Bay was designed by a U.S. contractor known for its maximum security prisons. Then he stumbled upon a juvenile prison in Whittier, California (just outside of L.A.), that just so happened to have a block of cells mimicking maximum security prisons. Stars aligned. Sattler believes the verisimilitude was essential to Camp X-Ray. “The movie basically has three characters, three primary elements: Kirsten, Paymer [Moaadi, of A Separation, as inmate Ali] and the character of this place.”

The Mission for Camp X-Ray: Sattler didn't want to make a movie about Guantanamo Bay that was politically charged and reflective of a big picture. He wanted to make a movie about Guantanamo Bay as a home to inmates and guards alike. “What if a movie could be about Guantanamo Bay without focusing on the 100 miles of fence line and, instead, focused on the smaller details. The microscopic view instead of a grand scale. Not Zero Dark Thirty but an intimate look at a world. These characters don't experience amazing helicopter shots over Guantanamo. They basically experience those four walls they see day in and day out,” Sattler says.

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New picture of Kristen (Cole) and Tara Holt (Mary) on the Camp X-Ray set.

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2014, 111 minutes, color, U.S.A., U.S. Dramatic

A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees. As two people on opposite sides of a war, they struggle to find their way through the ethical quagmire of Guantanamo Bay. In the process, they form an unlikely bond that changes them both. Intricately constructed, Camp X-Ray is a case study in the power of performance. At still a young age Kristen Stewart has long been much more than a movie star, and with this nuanced and internal performance, she continues to prove she has serious acting chops. Opposite her, Payman Maadi delivers a riveting performance as a man caught in limbo, reaching out for reason. Burrowing past the politics and into the humanity of the infamous detention camp, writer/director Peter Sattler provides a fresh perspective on the discourse of the war on terrorism and achieves one of the great virtues of film—creating empathy. - T.G.

Screenings:

1/17/2014 12:15pm Eccles Theatre, Park City

1/18/2014 8:30am Library Center Theatre, Park City

1/18/2014 9:30pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City

1/20/2014 6:30pm Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

1/22/2014 2:30pm The MARC, Park City

1/24/2014 8:30pm Library Center Theatre, Park City 

'Camp X-Ray' is one of the nine film selected for Sundance USA initiative

1/30/2014 - San Francisco, CA — Sundance Kabuki Cinemas - sundancecinemas.com

Nine films from the festival's 2014 lineup have been selected, and will be screened to the public in nine venues (one film per venue, that is) across the country on January 30. That's just four days after the festival closes, so audiences will be getting them while they're hot. At each screening, the relevant filmmaker will be present for a post-film Q&A.

Festival director John Cooper says, “Year-round audiences and arthouse theaters are vital parts of the independent film community, and our Sundance Film Festival USA initiative allows us to extend the energy and excitement of the Festival to them.” 

Many of the selections are on the starrier end of the Sundance spectrum. San Francisco audiences will be getting the Kristen Stewart vehicle "Camp X-Ray," in which she plays a Guantanamo Bay guard who bonds with one of her prisoners. Chicago, meanwhile, gets Joe Swanberg's "Happy Christmas," in which Anna Kendrick (fresh from Swanberg's "Drinking Buddies") plays a young woman who moves in with her brother's family after a breakup. Melanie Lynskey and Lena Dunham co-star.[..]

first official Still - Kristen Stewart as Cole 

 

 the director Peter Sattler 

 

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What can you tell us about your role in Camp X-Ray? 
Peter Sattler wrote this phenomenal script about Guantanamo Bay. I finally get to put on the other shoes. On Prison Break, I played the convict. I’ve played the convict a lot and, unfortunately, life has imitated art. I’ve seen the inside of those walls and know them too well, so the interesting thing about this character for me was to get to put on the prison guard’s shoes and walk around the fence-line. I got to see what it was like to play a man who worked inside the prison but got to leave. 

What was it like working with Kristen Stewart? 
Working with Kristen was phenomenal. I have nothing but great things to say about her. She’s a total tomboy and she loves sports. We were playing basketball or throwing the football every day in the prison. We set up a driving range there. She’s a great golfer too, so we had an immediate connection with sports. She just loves acting. It doesn’t matter if it’s a small film or a big budget film. She loves acting, as do I. This story is going to be really, really powerful. I think it’s going to cause some controversy that might make people ask the question, “What should we do with Guantanamo?”

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Lena: You have Camp X-Ray coming up with Kristen Stewart.

Joseph Julian Soria: That’s going to be interesting. It’s probably going to be controversial. To give you a bit of the storyline that I can give you without disclosing too much information: The storyline is about Kristen’s character Cole and her experience being stationed at Guantanamo Bay, which is where they hold detainees and what life is like there. It’s about the experience that these soldiers go through and she ends up befriending one of the detainees and finds out that they are not all as bad as they are made out to be. I play basically her best friend in the military. My character’s arc actually starts off kind of naïve and a bit of a good, but by the end of it he falls in line with the belief system of everybody else and you see that arc and how he changes in the film. It’s definitely a different roll. The story as a whole is a great story. I’m really looking forward to seeing how it comes out.

You can read the full interview here. Via @LanaLamoray

Tweets and some pictures from the Camp X-Ray wrap party:

It's a #Sushidan #studiocity night before the #wrapparty of one of the #films I just finished!!
— TJ White (@drstunt) August 15, 2013

Now this is a wrap party. #filmmaking http://t.co/gH7yO5JuMM
— TJ White (@drstunt) August 15, 2013

Tick tock tick tock its almost time for this boy to rock !!!!
— Anoop Simon (@SimonAnoop) August 15, 2013

Hey #TeamAnoop another dream come true last night.... got to attend a celebration party, Hollywood style. At... http://t.co/P86ObljiuN
— Anoop Simon (@SimonAnoop) August 16, 2013

Good times with drstunt at a wrap party last night. #filmmaking #showstopping #goldheels http://t.co/pMfkw897E1
— Lauren Pacheco (@LaurenPacheco_) August 15, 2013

 

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Twilight author Stephenie Meyer talks about Camp X-Ray and Kristen: 

Q: Are you excited to see Kristen's movie Camp X-Ray?

Meyer: Yeah it looks like she's gonna be super tough and everything, right? I bet she rocks it. She will kill it.

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The "Camp X-Ray" cast list has been updated on IMDb. Robert Tarpinian, LaDell Preston, Daniel Leavitt and Jonas Dickson join the cast of Camp X-Ray.

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Thank u 4 a wonderful week on set. I had a blast with the cast, director & crew. Met gr8 people & made new friends. Till next time. #hummus
— Mark Naji (@marknaji) August 10, 2013

wow what an amazing day today.... its great to see great #talent and be able to show my own skills as well :)
— Anoop Simon (@SimonAnoop) August 10, 2013

enjoying my #freedom today, sure beats being locked up in a maximum security prison !!!! #actor talk not real life ppl ;) happy saturday...
— Anoop Simon (@SimonAnoop) August 10, 2013

A big thankU to the amazing Director, cast & crew for letting me be a part of such an amazing project & for all the friendships i gained :)
— Anoop Simon (@SimonAnoop) August 11, 2013