Both stayed with me as my career expanded to directing. At twelve I followed my two professional passions, writing and dancing. "I found so many parallels in Pearl's life. Vilmos Zsigmond has been attached as the cinematographer. “ Pearl” is scheduled to start production in 2016 in Zhejiang Province, Shanghai and Prague. Roxanne has also been invited by the Pearl Buck foundation to present her research paper on Buck in the Pearl Buck Symposium to be held in Zhenjiang early September. Roxanne and the project are also repped by CAA. She’s repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment. Binoche, who won an Oscar for “ The English Patient,” recently starred in “ Clouds of Sils Maria” and will be seen next in Mike Medavoy’s mining rescue drama “ The 33″ opposite Antonio Banderas. About 85% of the film will be shot in China. During the Beijing Film Festival 2012, writer/ producer/ director Roxanne Messina Captor tied in China Film Group to co-finance and co-produce her project. The 1937 movie “ The Good Earth” starred Paul Muni and Luise Rainer, who won an Academy Award for best actress. Buck won the Pulitzer Prize in 1931 for her novel “ The Good Earth,” about the struggle of Chinese farmers, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.” She also wrote “Peony” a deeply moving romance about the last Jew in K’aifeng in the province of Hunan. She left China in 1934 and never returned. Her family escaped Nanking with the help of her family’s nanny and moved to Shanghai. The story follows the “Ten Years Civil War” which took place between the Communists and Nationalists after the Nanking Incident of 1927. Buck, who was in China during the upheaval of the 1920s. Based upon the life of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. After many years of a varied theater, dance and film career, Roxanne Messina Captor will be directing her script “ Pearl” starring Juliette Binoche along with Leehom Wang (“ Blackhat”) and Jing Tian (“ Great Wall”).
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