Korean sales house Finecut has closed a string of international deals for three festival titles, including Hong Sangsoo‘s Locarno prizewinner “Nowhere to Lay My Eyes,” ahead of the Toronto Film Festival. The film marks Hong’s 35th feature. It competed in the Concorso Internazionale at the 79th Locarno Film Festival and picked up three awards: the
The idea for “The Difficult Bride” traces back to a story Rubaiyat Hossain heard as a 7 year old, visiting a Dhaka beauty parlor with her mother. “There was a bride who died there,” Hossain says. “Everyone knew this story from our generation, and I remember being seven, and even at that time, I had
Seoul-based sales agent Finecut has acquired international sales rights to “Guardians of the Video Game,” a 3D animated feature based on the Naver Webtoon of the same name, ahead of the Toronto market. “Guardians of the Video Game” originated as a Naver Webtoon by Gasfard that has amassed 345 million views. The property was later
The South Asian Screen Office of Canada and IFFSA Toronto, in collaboration with Storiculture, have selected eight South Asian feature film projects for a new pathway to financiers and industry partners at the Toronto Film Festival‘s inugural market, under an initiative called South Asian Screen Futures. The slate includes talent tied to recent Sundance, Cannes
Canadian distributor h264 has pounced on worldwide sales rights to “Where the River Begins” (“Donde comienza el rio”) by Colombian-Canadian filmmaker Juan Andrés Arango (“La Playa DC”), ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF). Starring Girleza Duave Cerezo, Juan David Junca Linares and Ana Michell Nama Dumaza, “Where the River Begins”
“Forgotten Spaceman,” the documentary short by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Elham Ehsas that won the Leopard of Tomorrow (International Competition) award at Locarno’s Junior Jury Awards, has added Khan & Kumar Media and Prism Entertainment as executive producers ahead of its Toronto Film Festival premiere next month. The new executive producers are Sharib Khan and Vikas Kumar
