Kerry Washington To Star In And Produce Feature Film Adaptation Of Diane Cardwell’s Memoir Rockaway →

The film is a co-production with Liza Chasin's 3dot Productions, Kerry Washington's Simpson Street, and Aevitas Entertainment.

Cast: Emmy Award winner Kerry Washington (The Prom, American Son, Little Fires Everywhere). Washington also stars in the upcoming Netflix film The School For Good And Evil.

Producers: Liza Chasin, who has a multi-year first-look deal with Netflix, for 3dot Productions; Kerry Washington and Pilar Savone for Simpson Street; Todd Shuster for Aevitas Entertainment

Screenwriter: NAACP Image Award winner Nichelle Tramble Spellman (Truth Be Told) will adapt the screenplay based on the memoir by Diane Cardwell.

ExecutiveProducers: Diane Cardwell, Margaret Chernin

Logline: On a routine assignment, a Manhattan journalist unexpectedly discovers the transcendent power of surfing, and finds herself running from the comfortable life she's always known towards a life of romance and self-discovery in eclectic Rockaway Beach.

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Rockaway was named by Outside Magazine as one of the Best Adventure Travel Books of the Year.