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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominees Maria Bakalova (_Bodies Bodies Bodies_) and David Strathairn (_Nomadland_) will topline _O Horizon_ — the second narrative feature from Emmy winner Madeleine

Sackler (_O.G._), which wrapped production last fall.  The film written and directed by Sackler follows Abby (Bakalova), a brilliant, young neuroscientist who has recently lost her father,

Warren (Strathairn), and drowns her grief by spending her days working with a monkey named Dorey. Abby meets a programmer, Sam, who has created a technology that reconnects Abby with her

beloved father. Her relationship with her digitized dad then forces her to re-examine everything from her romantic relationships to her life’s work.  Producers on the project include Joseph

Cross, Audrey Tommassini and Paul Nelson. CAA Media Finance is selling worldwide rights WATCH ON DEADLINE Sackler is best known for directing and producing HBO’s _O.G._ — a groundbreaking

2018 drama, filmed entirely within a maximum-security prison, that had Jeffrey Wright starring alongside dozens of incarcerated men. HBO in the same year released her News & Documentary

Emmy-nominated documentary I_t’s a Hard Truth Ain’t It_, which she co-directed with 13 incarcerated men. Bakalova earned her 2021 Oscar nomination for her breakout supporting turn opposite

Sacha Baron Cohen in his long-awaited sequel _Borat Subsequent Moviefilm_, released by Prime Video. She recently starred in Halina Reijn’s acclaimed horror-comedy_ Bodies Bodies Bodies_ for

A24, and has been tapped to voice Cosmo the Spacedog in James Gunn’s Marvel franchise closer, _Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3_, having also played that role in the recent_ Guardians of the

Galaxy: Holiday Special_. She’ll also soon be seen in the Sofia Coppola-produced drama _Fairyland_, which is world premiering at Sundance 2023, and the Jerry Seinfeld-directed comedy

_Unfrosted_ for Netflix, among other projects. Landing his Best Actor nom for George Clooney’s _Good Night, and Good Luck._, Strathairn has more recently been seen in Sony’s hit drama _Where

the Crawdads Sing_, based on the novel by Delia Owens, as well as Guillermo del Toro’s _Nightmare Alley _and Chloé Zhao’s Best Picture winner, _Nomadland_. The actor has also been seen on

series like _Interrogation_, _The Expanse_, _Billions_, _McMafia_, _Z: The Beginning of Everything_ and_ The Blacklist_, among others. Also coming up for him is the Angus MacLachlan-directed

drama _A Little Prayer_ with Jane Levy, which bows at Sundance 2023. Sackler is repped by Mosaic; Bakalova by CAA, Brookside Artist Management, and Insight Management & Production in

the UK; and Strathairn by Verve and Ryan Entertainment.