The critically acclaimed Heaven Knows What, directed by celebrated filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie (Lenny Cooke, Daddy Longlegs), and starring Arielle Holmes in her powerful acting debut, will arrive on Blu-ray on September 15th from Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Written by Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, Heaven Knows What blends fiction, formalism and raw vérité as it follows a young heroin addict (Holmes) who roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend Ilya (Caleb Landry Jones, X-Men: First Class, Byzantium) drifts in and out of her life at random.
Heaven Knows What co-stars Eleonore Hendricks (Daddy Longlegs, Bugcrush), street legend Buddy Duress and gore rap phenom Necro. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival where it won the CIACE award, and won the Grand Prix and Best Director Awards at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2014. The feature, which also played at NYFF, Toronto and SXSW among other prestigious festivals, is based on Holmes' soon-to-be-published memoir Mad Love in New York City.