Park Avenue in Cinemas 14th November
Today Rimsky Productions is delighted to announce that its feature film PARK AVENUE starring BAFTA Award winner and three-time Emmy nominee Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter, Killing Eve, Fleabag, True Detective, Bad Sisters), Katherine Waterston (Babylon, Alien: Covenant, The End We Start From, Inherent Vice, Fantastic Beasts) and Chaske Spencer (The English, The Twilight Saga) will be released in UK and Irish cinemas from 14th November.
Directed by Gaby Dellal (On a Clear Day, 3 Generations, YOU, Leaving) and written by Gaby Dellal and Tina Alexis Allen, PARK AVENUE is produced by Diana Phillips p.g.a, (Birthday Girl, Death at a Funeral, Alfie, Bad Lieutenant) and executive produced by Dorothy Berwin (Carol, Safety of Objects, Bedrooms and Hallways) and Josh Blum (A Most Violent Year, Margin Call, Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy). PARK AVENUE was part of the Official Selection for both Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2025 and Dublin International Film Festival 2025. The film was composed by Stephen Warbeck (Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Shakespeare in Love, Billy Elliot) with Director of Photography by David Johnson (Alien vs. Predator, Yellowstone, Leaving).
PARK AVENUE is a poignant and compelling exploration of family, identity, and redemption set in New York City’s Park Avenue.
Paralyzed by a cowboy existence wrangling cattle in the wilds of Canada, Charlotte (Katherine Waterston) flees her controlling husband in a 1968 Ford Bronco and drives South. When she tips up at her childhood Park Avenue apartment uninvited and unannounced, her mother (Fiona Shaw) has 3 words for her “Am I dying?”
Charlotte, wild, irreverent, is her mother’s daughter. Between them, they share a love for Anders (Chaske Spencer), the devoted doorman of 960 Park. A fraught six weeks, set against the backdrop of old New York and the eclectic, intertwined lives of the building’s long-time residents (played by Tim Hutton, Phylicia Rashad, Didi Conn, Allison Mackay and Mary Beth Peil), PARK AVENUE explores the intricate bond between a mother and daughter. Through shared history and unshared truths, they learn to face love, loss, and most importantly, each other.
Writer/director Gaby Dellal said: “Park Avenue is about mothers. Everyone has one. It explores truth or the childhood truths we are told. As Kit explains when asked about her memoir, ”I found it hard to distinguish between what happened and what might have happened”.
Like so many daughters, I grew up challenging my mother and only in her death did I learn to accept and applaud her. And like my mother, Kit is never without her “lippy”.
This is my love letter to what I imagine is a shared culture on Manhattan’s Upper East side, the New York of the movies I grew up watching. A celebration of a small eclectic community and the loyal old fashioned doormen that guard them.”
