Maybach's lensing

Maybach Cunningham Entertainment's "Martha Marcy May Marlene" will screen in the Toronto fest on Sunday. Maybach Cunningham Entertainment, producer of "Martha Marcy May Marlene," is ramping up production on a set of projects -- "Mother of George" and "The Reduced Road." "Martha Marcy" opened at Sundance, with Sean Durkin winning the festival's U.S. pointing award for the best drama, as well as tested in Not Certain Regard at Cannes. With "Martha Marcy" set to screen Sunday in the Toronto Film Festival, producers Chris Maybach and Patrick Cunningham have remained busy, wrapping production on "Celebrity" the 2009 week and beginning the "Mother of George" shoot with Andrew Dosunmu pointing. Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy will also be creating Saemi Kim and Saerom Kim professional produce. Script by Darci Picoult focuses on an African lady in Brooklyn who's engaged to marry another African. Both find it difficult to define their relationship in modern terms. "It is a readily available story because what they are coping with as immigrants are lots of very identifiable problems," Maybach told Variety. "Mother of George" may be the person receiving a significant grant in the Ford Foundation and was created in the 2005 Sundance Screenwriters and Company directors Lab. Nigeria native Dosunmu and Picoult also received a Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship along with a grant in the Annenberg Foundation. "George" stars Danai Gurira, Issach P Bankole, Bukky Ajayi, Tony Okungbowa, Yaya Dacosta and Angelique Kidjo. Maybach Cunningham can also be preparing his directorial debut, "The Reduced Road," for any shoot in Northern California late this season. The storyline, developed with Richard Kessler, handles a youthful drifter who revisits his home town. "Celebrity" examines the unlikely relationship between two women -- an 85-year-old recluse along with a 22-year-old free spirit -- residing in the San Fernando Valley. Pic is directed and co-compiled by Sean Baker having a cast including Dree Hemingway, Stella Maeve, James Ransone, Karren Karagulian and Besedka Manley. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com