NDA has a distributor. Bleecker Street acquired U.S. rights to the psychological thriller, written and directed by Audrey Ellis Fox. Rachel Zegler, Penn Badgley, and Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan star. Fox is making her feature directorial debut on a film currently shooting in New York.
Zegler plays Dana, a woman grinding through a single day of mediation for an office harassment claim she filed. As the clock runs down, she is forced to question the price of her silence, her sanity, and the truth. The compressed setting gives the film its tension: one room, one deadline, one woman deciding how much truth costs.
Fox's script was featured on the 2024 Black List, the annual survey of Hollywood's most-liked unproduced screenplays. That pedigree drew Bleecker Street. CEO Kent Sanderson said in a statement: "NDA was one of the best scripts I've read and is exactly the kind of bold, filmmaker-driven cinema we're passionate about championing."
Fox added: "I'm thrilled to be collaborating with Rachel, Penn, Amy, Bleecker and the rest of this exceptional team to bring my film to screen."
The film is produced by Jared Ian Goldman and Zola Elgart Glassman for Mighty Engine, Keith Calder and Jess Wu Calder for SNOOT, Caitlin Gold for Tanbark Pictures, and Daniel Ginsberg for In the Cut Productions. No release date has been set.