Hollywood Ventures Group has optioned Namratha Stanley’s memoir “Vineyard Melody” for a movie adaptation, with the deal closed throughout the Cannes Film Festival.
HVG co-founder Glenn Gainor has had director conversations in Cannes as the corporate charts the undertaking’s improvement path.
Revealed by Regalo Press, the memoir follows Stanley from a decade-plus of home abuse in Bangalore to the vineyards of Bordeaux. The turning level comes when a violent assault by her husband practically kills each her and her daughter. Stanley boards a aircraft to France to pursue an MBA, leaving her daughter in her dad and mom’ care whereas she establishes herself overseas, and finally builds her personal wine label whereas preventing to carry her daughter out of India to hitch her.
“Understanding her origin story, I realized I was looking at a very powerful woman, a very strong person, a person of conviction and a beautiful moral compass,” Gainor says.
Gainor constructed Display screen Gems’ bodily manufacturing division at Sony Photos, having beforehand produced three options for Adam Sandler’s Glad Madison label – “Strange Wilderness,” “Grandma’s Boy,” and “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.” He later oversaw Amazon MGM productions together with “Being the Ricardos,” “The Tender Bar,” and “Red One,” and acquired the Social Impression Producer of the Yr award on the 2024 Venice Movie Pageant. He tells Selection he sees within the materials a top quality central to the tasks HVG pursues.
“I believe her story has a sense of urgency,” Gainor says.
The corporate has but to find out whether or not the undertaking will take form as a local-language manufacturing, a global movie, or a platform title, with these choices to be labored by in partnership with collaborators.
“As a writer, you hope to find partners who truly connect with the core of your narrative,” Stanley says. “When Glenn and I first met in Paris, and later traveled to Bordeaux, our conversations cemented the fact that he shared my exact vision for the screen adaptation. Hollywood Ventures Group represents the future of storytelling, and I am incredibly proud to trust them with this project.”
HVG was co-founded by Sandy Climan, who serves as chair. Climan, a former Common Studios government vice chairman and founding head of CAA’s company apply, produced Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator” – incomes a BAFTA and a Golden Globe – and government produced digital live-action 3D function, “U2 3D.” The corporate’s portfolio spans impact-driven tasks alongside industrial IP, together with illustration of Platinum Universe’s catalog of greater than 1,300 comedian guide characters.
