The film will make its world premiere with simultaneous screenings on September 11 at the 77th Venice International Film Festival and the 45th Toronto International Film Festival, both of which will feature virtual introductions by producer, writer, editor and director Zhao and producer/star McDormand.
McDormand produces the film alongside Peter Spears (Call Me By Your Name), Mollye Asher (The Rider), Dan Janvey (Beasts of the Southern Wild) and Zhao (The Rider), who adapted the screenplay and has edited the film herself. “Chloe’s understanding and depiction of the layered beauty of the human experience achieves new heights in Nomadland,” Telluride Film Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger said in a statement.
“It is both a great pleasure and honor to be part of Chloé Zhao’s new film’s unveiling to the world,” Venice International Film Festival Director Alberto Barbera said in a statement.
Searchlight Pictures has announced that Eternals director Chloé Zhao’s upcoming feature Nomadland starring Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) is set to hit the major film circuit this fall at Venice, Toronto, Telluride and New York followed by a domestic wide release.