MISTRESS DISPELLER ACQUISITION
We’re thrilled to announce that Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American distribution rights to MISTRESS DISPELLER. The film is scheduled to be released in theaters and on digital platforms later this year. Read more about the acquisition here.
MISTRESS DISPELLER has been the recipient of many prizes on the film festival circuit. Most recently, it won the International Competition Jury Award at One World Film Festival and the Grand Jury Award at Sonoma International Film Festival. Congrats to director Elizabeth Lo and the entire MISTRESS DISPELLER team!
SPRING FESTIVALS
MOVIES THAT MATTER
We are thrilled that FACING WAR won the Grand Jury Prize at the Movies that Matter Film Festival in the Hague. Congratulations to director Tommy Gulliksen, producers Anne Marte Blindheim and Danielle Turkov Wilson and the full FACING WAR team! Other IP films at Movies that Matter included VIKTOR, SUGARCANE, UNION, and ANTIDOTE, which received a special mention in the Justice Frame Award.
Click here for the full list of winners.
CPH:DOX
This weekend, CPH:DOX wrapped its 22nd edition, featuring six Impact Partners films. Their lineup featured six Impact Partners films, including FACING WAR, which celebrated its world premiere. FACING WAR was the festival’s opening night selection. The film’s protagonist, former Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg, attended the premiere alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.
Read more about the screening in Deadline, and check out this interview with FACING WAR director Tommy Gulliksen in Filmmaker.
Another CPH highlight was the premiere of a new version of ANTIDOTE, incorporating exciting, vital narrative updates since the world premiere last summer. Director James Jones, protagonist Christo Grozev, and our own Executive Director Jenny Raskin participated in a panel called “The Cost of Exposing Truth to Power.” Read more about their conversation in Variety.
Congratulations to all of the films that screened at CPH on a fantastic festival!
INDIE DISTRIBUTION CASE STUDY
Last year, UNION was the recipient of a grant from Distribution Advocates’ FilmADE Fund, which supports innovative distribution plans. This past week, UNION producer Samantha Curley published an in-depth overview of the film’s release on Distribution Advocates’s Substack. Click here to access the case study.
UNION will be available to purchase on demand May 1. Click here to pre-order.
THE MOVIES WE’VE LOVED SINCE 2000
The New York Times has released a list of “The Movies We’ve Loved Since 2000.” We were excited to see many Impact Partners films on the list, including AFTERSHOCK, AILEY, BIG MEN, THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM, BISBEE ’17, THE COVE, GIVING VOICE, HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE, IT’S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL, JACINTA, MIJA, ON THE RECORD, THE OVERNIGHTERS, PAPER & GLUE, THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES, SUGARCANE, TROPHY, UNION, !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION, and WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?.