Charades and CAA Media Finance have boarded Norwegian filmmaker Mona Fastvold’s English-language The Testament Of Ann Lee for sales ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the Venice Film Festival.

Amanda Seyfried plays the titular religious leader who founded the Shaker movement in the US in the late 1770s, with Lee’s followers branding her as the female Jesus Christ. The musical film heads to Toronto Special Presentations after its Venice bow.

Christopher Abbott, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman and Tim Blake Nelson also star.

The producers are Kaplan Morrison’s Andrew Morrison, Intake Films’ Joshua Horsfield, Proton Cinema’s Viktoria Petranyi, Mona Fastvold, and Brady Corbet alongside Mark Lampert, Mid March Media’s Gregory Jankilevitsch and Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska,

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