Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the worldwide rights to a new Julia Child documentary.
The film, currently titled Julia, hails from filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West and is being produced with the full cooperation of Julia Child’s friends, family, and The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts.
“Julia will use never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and ‘cutting edge’ food cinematography. The project will trace Child’s path, from her struggles to create and publish 1961’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her become an unlikely television sensation from her show The French Chef.”
“Julia’s story is surprising, empowering, sexy, and downright delicious,” West said in a statement. “To be working on this project with the teams at Sony Pictures Classics, Imagine Documentaries and CNN Films,” Cohen added, “is the crème fraîche on the tarte Tatin!”
