Fans of Steven Shainberg have long-awaited a new film, and what would be better than the notoriously three-time shelved film, The Big Shoe?

Who is Steven Shainberg, and what is The Big Shoe?

Steven Shainberg has directed iconic films such as cult classic Secretary (2002) starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader, and Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006), an unusual un-biopic about the photographer.

In his own words, The Big Shoe is "about a genius shoe designer who hasn’t done anything in shoes for years because his father devastated him. His father is a bootmaker, and he doesn’t believe that his son should stray from the bootmaking profession. In the beginning of the movie, the mother sends a woman to Arizona, where the hero is living in kind of squalor and says, “Your father’s dying, and I will help get you back to Los Angeles for a few days so you can say goodbye.” But it turns out the woman is actually a psychiatrist who basically moves into people’s lives to help them. She brings in a girl with a beautiful foot. He sees the girl’s foot and he gets so turned on, he starts creating shoes for her. And what develops is a sort of wonderfully perverted funny relationship between him and the girl.

It’s about what happens between his family, the shoemaker and the beautiful shoes that he makes. It was a perverted love story that’s really funny, about art and commerce." Source

Why hasn't this film been made yet?

The film has went through multiple casts, including actors such as Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Mia Wasikowska, Susan Sarandon, and Andrew Garfield, but it has been a struggle to acquire the financing to get it made since it's original expected release date in 2012.

Why am I making this petition?

To let the Shainberg fans voices be heard, and hopefully raise awareness about the film and get it produced. We want to see another emotional, funny, and unusual rom-com from the director that does that genre the best. His films carry a sensitivity around topics that are rarely explored in the media, and sadly, the current film market does not want promote that. Let's change that!