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AFM 2017: FILMRISE ACQUIRES NORTH AMERICAN RIGHTS TO CLIO BARNARD’S ‘DARK RIVER’ FROM PROTAGONIST PICTURES

Protagonist Pictures has sold North American rights to FilmRise for Clio Barnard’s (The Selfish Giant, The Arbor) drama Dark River. It was announced today by Protagonist Managing Director of Sales and Distribution Vanessa Saal and FilmRise CEO Danny Fisher. The film debuted as a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and screened as an official selection in the London Film Festival to outstanding reviews. The North American deal was negotiated between George Hamilton, Protagonist’s Manager of International Sales, and FilmRise’s Faye Tsakas, Director of Acquisitions. Protagonist Pictures is handling worldwide rights to the film. FilmRise will release Dark River theatrically in 2018. The film will also be available to stream on Amazon Prime Video late in 2018 as FilmRise opted-in the film to Amazon Video Direct’s prestigious Film Festival Stars program. Written and directed by Clio Barnard (The Arbor, The Selfish Giant), this moving tale of family secrets sta

AFM 2017 - GRAVITAS VENTURES ACQUIRES U.S. RIGHTS TO KYLE RIDEOUT’S ‘PUBLIC SCHOOLED’ STARRING JUDY GREER

Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (KFD)and XYZ Films announced today that Gravitas Ventures has acquired multiple territories, including the U.S., Australia and South Africa to Kyle Rideout’s Public Schooled. The comedy stars Judy Greer, Daniel Doheny, Siobhan Williams, and Russell Peters, and recently made its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Gravitas will release the film theatrically in the U.S. in late Q1/early Q2 2018, and Kaleidoscope Entertainment will release the film theatrically in the UK. Based on an original script co-written by Rideout and Josh Epstein, Public Schooled follows socially awkward Liam (Doheny), who has been homeschooled his entire life. When he falls in love with a popular one-legged girl (Williams), he abandons his mother’s (Greer) suffocating love and enrolls in public school, getting a crash course in sex, drugs and social mayhem.  Epstein produced the film, with Adam Folk co-producing and Justine Whyte executive producing.