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Exclusive: Producer Michael Bayer has launched True Case Films, a new production company based in Los Angeles, focused solely on producing and financing stories based on true crime. The newly formed company has secured IP and is actively seeking additional packaged true crime projects to finance, produce and executive produce. Bayer will serve as the new company’s president.

True Case Films is launching with its first offering, a three-part docuseries currently titled Vanished -The Heather Elvis Case, co-produced by three-time Emmy winning investigative journalist and former managing editor of Wpde in Myrtle Beach, Summer Dashe.

The series explores the disappearance of Heather Elvis, who went missing in South Carolina in 2013 and whose case became national news. Dashe covered the case extensively and was able to provide this series with interviews that reached a level of depth previously unseen, thanks to her proximity to the area and earned trust with its subjects.

Alvin Straight is not the twisted David Lynch character audiences expected… he’s a well-adjusted old Iowan with the same kinds of regrets that most people have. Taken from a true story, Alvin can’t drive and hasn’t much money, but he undertakes an eccentric Odyssey that in different circumstances might get him committed. And there’s the rub — his ‘impossible’ 5 mph trek across Iowa becomes a voyage of affirmation. Lynch is no cheater: we may expect bloody disaster but he instead gives us a statement about common decency and goodwill from his own Midwestern roots. This one movie will lower your blood pressure by 10 points.

The Straight Story

Region Free Blu-ray

Viavision [Imprint] 61

1999 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 112 min. / Street Date August 25, 2021 / Available from / 39.95au

Starring: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Dan Flannery, Everett McGill, Barbara Robertson, James Cada, Sally Wingert, Kevin P. Farley, John Farley, John Lordan, Russ Reed, Harry Dean Stanton.