Distribution February 2013
Latest projects picked up by distributors
- MADAME TYSON (aka WRESTLING IN DAKAR), produced and directed by EAVE 2007 graduate Edward Porembny has been picked up by Insomnia Word Sales Company in France. Supported by the Media Program in development and in production, the documentary was produced by AMP Polska in co-production with Les Films du Tambour de Soie, ARTE Strasbourg, TVP Poland and Aljazeera UK. It has been bought by NRK (Norway), Canal + (Poland) and TV5 MONDE (France). The film will have its premiere in March 2013.
- EAVE 2006 graduate Nuno Bernardo’s beActive announces that multimedia studio Electus has acquired the North American format rights to beActive’s new multi-platform property BEAT GIRL by Nuno Bernardo which includes a web series, a book, a movie and a television series. The deal comes as beActive celebrates its 10th year in business. Created by Emmy-nominated writer-producer Nuno Bernardo and originally produced in the U.K. in 2012, BEAT GIRL is a coming of age story of a young girl as she is torn between her late mother’s dreams of her securing a place in the prestigious Julliard Performing Arts School in New York and becoming a world class pianist in the pulsating world of Electronic Dance Music (EDM). The original television series and the film rights are being sold internationally by Content Media. A music album and a smart phone game based on the series are due out in the spring of 2013 to complement the multi-platform experience.
- Wildcard Distribution, a new Irish outfit backed by Irish production company Fastnet Films of EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher and EAVE 2008 graduate Morgan Bushe, has been launched. Wildcard will release Irish and international titles theatrically and on home video across Ireland and the UK. Irish Film Board (IFB) executive Patrick O’Neill will head up the new company. Wildcard will work with UK distributors to release both Irish and international projects in the Irish market as a sub-distributor, and are partnering with Metrodome in the UK to distribute Mark O’Connor’s KING OF THE TRAVELLERS theatrically in Ireland. Also in the pipeline for 2013 are Lance Daly’s LIFE’S A BREEZE, Andrew Gallimore’s CYCLONE and THE SWELL SEASON, co-directed by Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins and Carlo Mirabella-Davis.
Page published 25 February 2013.
