{"id":2291156,"date":"2026-02-20T15:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2291156"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:42:18","slug":"beth-de-araujos-12-year-journey-to-bring-josephine-to-the-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/beth-de-araujos-12-year-journey-to-bring-josephine-to-the-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth de Ara\u00fajo\u2019s 12-Year Journey to Bring \u2018Josephine\u2019 to the Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">More than a decade after first taking the project to the Sundance Directors Lab, writer-director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7102845\/\">Beth de Ara\u00fajo<\/a> arrived in Berlin with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3691418\/\">Josephine<\/a>. Her autobiographical drama \u2014 starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1475594\/\">Channing Tatum<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2110418\/\">Gemma Chan<\/a> and newcomer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm18064389\/\">Mason Reeves<\/a> \u2014 about a child who witnesses a horrific violent crime, won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and is now screening in competition at the Berlinale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been trying for 12 years [to get Josephine made]. This was supposed to be my first feature. I was at the Sundance directors lab with it. However, given the subject matter, it was incredibly challenging to piece together,\u201d de Ara\u00fajo said at the Berlinale press conference for Josephine on Friday. \u201cAnd Gemma was attached to it then, and then I shot <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14557188\/\">Soft &amp; Quiet<\/a> (2023) and I was lucky enough to then meet this wonderful human [points to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11069119\/\">Tatum<\/a>] who signed on, and then we could go make the movie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a decade after first taking the project to the Sundance Directors Lab, writer-director Beth de Ara\u00fajo arrived in Berlin with Josephine. Her autobiographical drama \u2014 starring Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan and newcomer Mason Reeves \u2014 about a child who witnesses a horrific violent crime, won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2291157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2291156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Beth-de-Araujos-12-Year-Journey-to-Bring-\u2018Josephine-to-the.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291158,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291156\/revisions\/2291158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}