'Beginners' Director Mike Mills will Next Helm '20th Century Women'

Know who hasn't been seen in awhile? Mike Mills. His name may not be household just yet but chances are you know his last film, Beginners, a sensitive and funny film that has only grown in stature over the last five years. Hard to believe it has been that long, but Mills is finally moving on to his next project thanks to the fine folks at Annapurna Pictures.

Mills will direct 20th Century Women, which Annapurna Pictures will produce,continuing their practice of working with some of today's most challenging filmmakers. Here's the synopsis:

Set in the wonderfully disruptive days of punk's arrival to suburban America, Jimmy Carter's last summer in office and the oil and fiscal crises of the late 70's, the story is about three very different women teaching a boy what men are, what women are, about love and freedom and finding your own form of sanity in Santa Barbara 1979. When the boy's mother takes in a male border, his world view is further shaken by the man's desire to understand and be loved by these seemingly unknowable women. 

Casting is underway now with the plan to begin filming later this year.