Sales include German deal for Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise.
Fledgling sales company Stray Dogs has sold Indian director Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise, starring Adil Hussein as a detective investigating a series of child abductions over a decade, to Germany’s Rapid Eye.
The Paris-based company, which made its Cannes debut this year, has also sealed deals on Ben and Joshua Safdie’s Heaven Knows What to Japan (Transformer), Mexico (Axolote Distribucion) and ex-Yugoslavia (2i Films).
Company founder Nathan Fischer is also reporting sales on experimental Philippine filmmaker Khavn De La Cruz Ruined Heart to Taiwan (Flash Forward), Japan (Tokyo New Cinema) and the UK (Third Window) and France (Spectrum).
Israeli Noam Kaplan’s Manpower about a police officer, who reassesses his job as an immigration police officer when a controversial new policy is introduced has been picked up for the Us by Menemsha Films.
Fledgling sales company Stray Dogs has sold Indian director Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise, starring Adil Hussein as a detective investigating a series of child abductions over a decade, to Germany’s Rapid Eye.
The Paris-based company, which made its Cannes debut this year, has also sealed deals on Ben and Joshua Safdie’s Heaven Knows What to Japan (Transformer), Mexico (Axolote Distribucion) and ex-Yugoslavia (2i Films).
Company founder Nathan Fischer is also reporting sales on experimental Philippine filmmaker Khavn De La Cruz Ruined Heart to Taiwan (Flash Forward), Japan (Tokyo New Cinema) and the UK (Third Window) and France (Spectrum).
Israeli Noam Kaplan’s Manpower about a police officer, who reassesses his job as an immigration police officer when a controversial new policy is introduced has been picked up for the Us by Menemsha Films.
- 5/19/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Other Iffr pick-ups include God Loves the Fighter.
Newly launched French sales company Stray Dogs has picked up world rights to Mexican horror-thriller I Stay With You (Me quedo contigo) following its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (Iffr) last month.
Reversing traditional male-female kidnap narratives to shocking effect, I Stay With You follows a group of women who abduct and abuse an unsuspecting cowboy they meet in a bar.
“This is a mind-blowing and crazy film about violence and the battle of the sexes,” says Nathan Fischer, who launched Paris-based Stray Dogs last month.
In another Iffr acquisition, Fischer has world rights excluding Us and the Caribbean to Trinidad and Tobago-born, Los Angeles-based Damian Marcano’s debut God Loves The Fighter.
Set against the backdrop of east Port of Spain, dubbed the murder capital of the Caribbean, the film revolves around a homeless criminal’s tragic struggle to help a young prostitute in trouble...
Newly launched French sales company Stray Dogs has picked up world rights to Mexican horror-thriller I Stay With You (Me quedo contigo) following its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (Iffr) last month.
Reversing traditional male-female kidnap narratives to shocking effect, I Stay With You follows a group of women who abduct and abuse an unsuspecting cowboy they meet in a bar.
“This is a mind-blowing and crazy film about violence and the battle of the sexes,” says Nathan Fischer, who launched Paris-based Stray Dogs last month.
In another Iffr acquisition, Fischer has world rights excluding Us and the Caribbean to Trinidad and Tobago-born, Los Angeles-based Damian Marcano’s debut God Loves The Fighter.
Set against the backdrop of east Port of Spain, dubbed the murder capital of the Caribbean, the film revolves around a homeless criminal’s tragic struggle to help a young prostitute in trouble...
- 2/10/2015
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based sales agent launches new company. First films include Heaven Knows What.
Paris-based Nathan Fischer - one of Screen’s Future Leaders at Cannes last year - has launched a new sales company called Stray Dogs on the eve of Unifrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris.
“The focus is on young, international talents,” said Fischer. “I want want to work with filmmakers and for filmmakers to be an asset to their films.”
“I will be working on theatrical sales, of course, but will also look at innovative distribution strategies with an emphasis on strong festival and digital rollouts,” he added.
Stray Dogs’ debut slate features Ben and Joshua Safdie’s Heaven Knows What starring Arielle Holmes as a young heroin addict who finds mad love on the streets of New York.
Fischer will accompany the film to the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) where is screening in the Spectrum section.
The Us-French...
Paris-based Nathan Fischer - one of Screen’s Future Leaders at Cannes last year - has launched a new sales company called Stray Dogs on the eve of Unifrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris.
“The focus is on young, international talents,” said Fischer. “I want want to work with filmmakers and for filmmakers to be an asset to their films.”
“I will be working on theatrical sales, of course, but will also look at innovative distribution strategies with an emphasis on strong festival and digital rollouts,” he added.
Stray Dogs’ debut slate features Ben and Joshua Safdie’s Heaven Knows What starring Arielle Holmes as a young heroin addict who finds mad love on the streets of New York.
Fischer will accompany the film to the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) where is screening in the Spectrum section.
The Us-French...
- 1/14/2015
- ScreenDaily
The 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) has announced its complete line-up including Premieres, New Voices/New Visions and Modern Masters.
All in all 192 films from 65 countries, including 65 premieres (seven world, five international, 20 North American and 33 Us) will screen from January 2-12.
Premieres including Some Kind Of Love (Canada), Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha (USA) starring James Franco and Twenty-Five Palms from Luxembourg, a documentary about the festival’s quarter-century anniversary.
Among the international premieres are: Accused (Netherlands), The Grandad (Iceland) and Arteholic (Germany), a documentary featuring Udo Kier and Lars von Trier, among others.
The Secret Screening will take place on January 6.
The New Voices/New Visions Award focuses on directors whose feature debuts are currently without Us distribution.
The selections are: Afterlife (Hungary), Director Virág Zomborácz; Chubby (Belgium), Bruno Deville; Fidelio, Alice’s Journey (France), Lucie Borleteau; Grand Street (USA), Lex Sidon; Henri Henri (Canada), Martin Talbot; Manpower (Israel), [link...
All in all 192 films from 65 countries, including 65 premieres (seven world, five international, 20 North American and 33 Us) will screen from January 2-12.
Premieres including Some Kind Of Love (Canada), Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha (USA) starring James Franco and Twenty-Five Palms from Luxembourg, a documentary about the festival’s quarter-century anniversary.
Among the international premieres are: Accused (Netherlands), The Grandad (Iceland) and Arteholic (Germany), a documentary featuring Udo Kier and Lars von Trier, among others.
The Secret Screening will take place on January 6.
The New Voices/New Visions Award focuses on directors whose feature debuts are currently without Us distribution.
The selections are: Afterlife (Hungary), Director Virág Zomborácz; Chubby (Belgium), Bruno Deville; Fidelio, Alice’s Journey (France), Lucie Borleteau; Grand Street (USA), Lex Sidon; Henri Henri (Canada), Martin Talbot; Manpower (Israel), [link...
- 12/18/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) has announced its complete line-up including Premieres, New Voices/New Visions and Modern Masters.
All in all 192 films from 65 countries, including 65 premieres (seven world, five international, 20 North American and 33 Us) will screen from January 2-12.
Premieres including Some Kind Of Love (Canada), Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha (USA) starring James Franco and Twenty-Five Palms from Luxembourg, a documentary about the festival’s quarter-century anniversary.
Among the international premieres are: Accused (Netherlands), The Grandad (Iceland) and Arteholic (Germany), a documentary featuring Udo Kier and Lars von Trier, among others.
The Secret Screening will take place on January 6.
The New Voices/New Visions Award focuses on directors whose feature debuts are currently without Us distribution.
The selections are: Afterlife (Hungary), Director Virág Zomborácz; Chubby (Belgium), Bruno Deville; Fidelio, Alice’s Journey (France), Lucie Borleteau; Grand Street (USA), Lex Sidon; Henri Henri (Canada), Martin Talbot; Manpower (Israel), [link...
All in all 192 films from 65 countries, including 65 premieres (seven world, five international, 20 North American and 33 Us) will screen from January 2-12.
Premieres including Some Kind Of Love (Canada), Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha (USA) starring James Franco and Twenty-Five Palms from Luxembourg, a documentary about the festival’s quarter-century anniversary.
Among the international premieres are: Accused (Netherlands), The Grandad (Iceland) and Arteholic (Germany), a documentary featuring Udo Kier and Lars von Trier, among others.
The Secret Screening will take place on January 6.
The New Voices/New Visions Award focuses on directors whose feature debuts are currently without Us distribution.
The selections are: Afterlife (Hungary), Director Virág Zomborácz; Chubby (Belgium), Bruno Deville; Fidelio, Alice’s Journey (France), Lucie Borleteau; Grand Street (USA), Lex Sidon; Henri Henri (Canada), Martin Talbot; Manpower (Israel), [link...
- 12/18/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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