Cyber thriller plays in Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe competition.
Esc Distribution has bought the rights for France, Belgium and Switzerland on Pascal Plante’s Karlovy Vary competition title Red Rooms.
The deal was agreed between Victor Lamoussière of Esc Distribution and Anick Poirier and Lorne Price of Sphere Films International shortly before the closure of the Montreal-based sales agent last month.
Red Rooms follows a tech-savvy overachiever who becomes obsessed with the high-profile trial of a serial killer. As reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path in search of the final piece in the puzzle,...
Esc Distribution has bought the rights for France, Belgium and Switzerland on Pascal Plante’s Karlovy Vary competition title Red Rooms.
The deal was agreed between Victor Lamoussière of Esc Distribution and Anick Poirier and Lorne Price of Sphere Films International shortly before the closure of the Montreal-based sales agent last month.
Red Rooms follows a tech-savvy overachiever who becomes obsessed with the high-profile trial of a serial killer. As reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path in search of the final piece in the puzzle,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Co-presidents Anick Poirier and Lorne Price led highly regarded business.
Montreal-based sales agent Sphere Films International is to close down on June 16 as parent company Sphere said it was refocusing its distribution activities.
The highly regarded sales business led by co-presidents Anick Poirier and Lorne Price was noted throughout the global independent community for championing arthouse film, often by first-time directors.
The company has been handling sales on Fantasia opener Red Rooms and its credits include award-winners such as Canada’s 2020 Oscar submission Antigone by Sophie Deraspe and more recently Anthony Shim’s Riceboy Sleeps, Stéphane Lafleur’s Viking, and Job Clerc’s Sweet As.
Montreal-based sales agent Sphere Films International is to close down on June 16 as parent company Sphere said it was refocusing its distribution activities.
The highly regarded sales business led by co-presidents Anick Poirier and Lorne Price was noted throughout the global independent community for championing arthouse film, often by first-time directors.
The company has been handling sales on Fantasia opener Red Rooms and its credits include award-winners such as Canada’s 2020 Oscar submission Antigone by Sophie Deraspe and more recently Anthony Shim’s Riceboy Sleeps, Stéphane Lafleur’s Viking, and Job Clerc’s Sweet As.
- 6/8/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Canadian sales agents licenses Viking, Into The Weeds to US.
Sphere Films International has reported key territory deals here on Anthony Shim’s TIFF Platform Prize and Busan audience award winner Riceboy Sleeps.
1091 Pictures has acquired the family drama for the US and rights have gone for Australia and New Zealand (Icon), South Korea (Pancinema), Spain (Yoda Films), Benelux (September Films), Taiwan (Creative Century), Singapore (Lighthouse Film), and Israel (Lev Films).
Theatrical releases are planned for spring in South Korea and Singapore with other releases expected to follow shortly after. Anthony Shim’s 1990’s-set film follows a Korean single...
Sphere Films International has reported key territory deals here on Anthony Shim’s TIFF Platform Prize and Busan audience award winner Riceboy Sleeps.
1091 Pictures has acquired the family drama for the US and rights have gone for Australia and New Zealand (Icon), South Korea (Pancinema), Spain (Yoda Films), Benelux (September Films), Taiwan (Creative Century), Singapore (Lighthouse Film), and Israel (Lev Films).
Theatrical releases are planned for spring in South Korea and Singapore with other releases expected to follow shortly after. Anthony Shim’s 1990’s-set film follows a Korean single...
- 2/20/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Additional deals closed on Luc Picard’s action crime drama ’Confessions Of A Hitman’.
Montreal-based Sphere Films, formerly WaZabi Films, has closed the US and key territories on Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ feature directorial debut It Is In Us All, which won a special jury prize at SXSW earlier this year, and Confessions Of A Hitman.
It Is In Us All, financed by Screen Ireland and starring Cosmo Jarvis, Campbell-Hughes, Claes Bang and newcomer Rhys Mannion, has gone to Blue Finch Film Releasing in the UK, Pivot Pictures in Australia and New Zealand and Wolfe Releasing in the US.
The film won...
Montreal-based Sphere Films, formerly WaZabi Films, has closed the US and key territories on Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ feature directorial debut It Is In Us All, which won a special jury prize at SXSW earlier this year, and Confessions Of A Hitman.
It Is In Us All, financed by Screen Ireland and starring Cosmo Jarvis, Campbell-Hughes, Claes Bang and newcomer Rhys Mannion, has gone to Blue Finch Film Releasing in the UK, Pivot Pictures in Australia and New Zealand and Wolfe Releasing in the US.
The film won...
- 5/18/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Hot Docs Canadian Intl. Documentary Festival marked its long-awaited return to cinemas last night, opening its 29th edition in the historic Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema with the world premiere of Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal’s “Into the Weeds: Dewayne ‘Lee’ Johnson vs. Monsanto Company.” Sphere Films (formerly WaZabi Films) has worldwide sales rights (excluding Canada) and will be selling the film at the upcoming Cannes Film Market.
Johnson, a former school groundskeeper, was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2014, and became the first plaintiff and also the public face of a mass tort against the agrochemical corporation that manufactures the common weed-killer Roundup, which contains an active ingredient called glyphosate—a non-selective herbicide used in forestry, agriculture and backyards.
While tracing his story, the film expands its scope to examine this common product’s impact on human health and the environment, and the global repercussions of the trial, through...
Johnson, a former school groundskeeper, was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2014, and became the first plaintiff and also the public face of a mass tort against the agrochemical corporation that manufactures the common weed-killer Roundup, which contains an active ingredient called glyphosate—a non-selective herbicide used in forestry, agriculture and backyards.
While tracing his story, the film expands its scope to examine this common product’s impact on human health and the environment, and the global repercussions of the trial, through...
- 4/29/2022
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
Sphere, the Montreal-based production and distribution outfit, has acquired fellow Canadian company MK2 Mile End.
Leading film distributor MK2 Mile End, which was launched in 2017 by Charles Tremblay with French outfit MK2, will be absorbed into Sphere, with Tremblay appointed as president of the division. French company MK2 will no longer have a stake in the Canadian company.
Sphere continues to operate in the international film distribution space via Sphere Films (formerly WaZabi Films), with Anick Poirier and Lorne Price selling features to the international market.
MK2 Mile End has distributed titles in Canada including Palme d’Or winner Parasite, Celine Sciamma’s Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, the double-Oscar-nominated Honeyland, and the Quebec films And the Birds Rained Down by Louise Archambault and Maria Chapdelaine by Sébastien Pilote. It recently released The Wolf and the Lion, which has Canadian box-office earnings of 850,000 to date. The company launched its...
Leading film distributor MK2 Mile End, which was launched in 2017 by Charles Tremblay with French outfit MK2, will be absorbed into Sphere, with Tremblay appointed as president of the division. French company MK2 will no longer have a stake in the Canadian company.
Sphere continues to operate in the international film distribution space via Sphere Films (formerly WaZabi Films), with Anick Poirier and Lorne Price selling features to the international market.
MK2 Mile End has distributed titles in Canada including Palme d’Or winner Parasite, Celine Sciamma’s Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, the double-Oscar-nominated Honeyland, and the Quebec films And the Birds Rained Down by Louise Archambault and Maria Chapdelaine by Sébastien Pilote. It recently released The Wolf and the Lion, which has Canadian box-office earnings of 850,000 to date. The company launched its...
- 4/13/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Sales talks to commence with EFM buyers.
Montreal-based WaZabi Films has come on board to represent worldwide sales on Antonia Campbell-Hughes’s SXSW premiere It Is In Us All and will start talks with EFM buyers.
Campbell-Hughes wrote and also has a role in the Irish film starring Cosmo Jarvis from Peaky Blinders and The Evening Hour about a formidable man who cares for nothing and is forced to confront his self-destructive nature when a violent car crash involving a sexually charged boy challenges him to face his truth.
Claes Bang (The Square) and newcomer Rhys Mannion round out the...
Montreal-based WaZabi Films has come on board to represent worldwide sales on Antonia Campbell-Hughes’s SXSW premiere It Is In Us All and will start talks with EFM buyers.
Campbell-Hughes wrote and also has a role in the Irish film starring Cosmo Jarvis from Peaky Blinders and The Evening Hour about a formidable man who cares for nothing and is forced to confront his self-destructive nature when a violent car crash involving a sexually charged boy challenges him to face his truth.
Claes Bang (The Square) and newcomer Rhys Mannion round out the...
- 2/3/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Diane Moy Quan, Donna Gigliotti, Starlight Media founder Peter Luo produced.
Montreal-based WaZabi Films has picked up international rights to Yung Chang’s Hot Docs entry and Oscar-qualifying Wuhan Wuhan ahead of the virtual Cannes market.
Chang, whose credits include Up The Yangtze, China Heavyweight, and Fruit Hunters, trains his sights on citizens and frontline workers as they battle an invisible killer at the peak of the pandemic lockdown in Wuhan city in February and March 2020.
Diane Moy Quan and Donna Gigliotti produced alongside Starlight Media founder Peter Luo, while Donnie Yen handled executive producer duties.
30West represents North American rights to the documentary,...
Montreal-based WaZabi Films has picked up international rights to Yung Chang’s Hot Docs entry and Oscar-qualifying Wuhan Wuhan ahead of the virtual Cannes market.
Chang, whose credits include Up The Yangtze, China Heavyweight, and Fruit Hunters, trains his sights on citizens and frontline workers as they battle an invisible killer at the peak of the pandemic lockdown in Wuhan city in February and March 2020.
Diane Moy Quan and Donna Gigliotti produced alongside Starlight Media founder Peter Luo, while Donnie Yen handled executive producer duties.
30West represents North American rights to the documentary,...
- 6/11/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Film Option to distribute in Canada.
Montreal-based WaZabi Films has boarded worldwide rights excluding Canada on “zom-com” Brain Freeze and will launch sales at the virtual EFM next month.
Palomar produced the film written and directed by Julien Knafo about an exclusive golf club that hires a biotech company to deploy fertiliser that melts the snow so members can enjoy 18 holes all year round.
When the treatment contaminates the local water supply and turns most of the locals into zombies, teenage André is left to fend for himself and his baby sister Annie. Iani Bédard leads the cast.
Film Option...
Montreal-based WaZabi Films has boarded worldwide rights excluding Canada on “zom-com” Brain Freeze and will launch sales at the virtual EFM next month.
Palomar produced the film written and directed by Julien Knafo about an exclusive golf club that hires a biotech company to deploy fertiliser that melts the snow so members can enjoy 18 holes all year round.
When the treatment contaminates the local water supply and turns most of the locals into zombies, teenage André is left to fend for himself and his baby sister Annie. Iani Bédard leads the cast.
Film Option...
- 2/18/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Streaming platform Mubi has acquired multi-territory rights to Xavier Dolan’s Cannes 2019 drama Matthias & Maxime.
Curated arthouse service Mubi has acquired the VOD and TV rights in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Latam (excl. Mexico) and India. The film will debut on the service in those markets – where it hasn’t had a theatrical run yet – this summer.
Written, produced and directed by Dolan, the film tells the story of two childhood best friends Matthias (Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas) and Maxime, played by Dolan himself. The two men are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film and soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.
Also starring are Pier-Luc Funk, Samuel Gauthier, Antoine Pilon, Adib Alkhalidey, Anne Dorval, Micheline Bernard, Marilyn Castonguay and Catherine Brunet.
Curated arthouse service Mubi has acquired the VOD and TV rights in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Latam (excl. Mexico) and India. The film will debut on the service in those markets – where it hasn’t had a theatrical run yet – this summer.
Written, produced and directed by Dolan, the film tells the story of two childhood best friends Matthias (Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas) and Maxime, played by Dolan himself. The two men are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film and soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.
Also starring are Pier-Luc Funk, Samuel Gauthier, Antoine Pilon, Adib Alkhalidey, Anne Dorval, Micheline Bernard, Marilyn Castonguay and Catherine Brunet.
- 5/29/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Quebec Christmas hit Thanks For Everything among roster.
Montreal-based WaZabi Films is launching four titles at Efm including Generation 14plus selection Goddess Of The Fireflies and Frankel starring Berlinale international jury president Jeremy Irons.
Anick Poirier and Lorne Price’s team will be in Berlin introducing buyers to three other titles, having boarded Quebec Christmas hit Thanks For Everything (Merci Pour Tout), which is approaching $1m (C$1.3m), youth drama Flashwood, and Pascal Plante’s Nadia Butterfly, about a professional swimmer in her 20s facing retirement.
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s Goddess Of The Fireflies (La Déesse Des Mouches À Feu) is...
Montreal-based WaZabi Films is launching four titles at Efm including Generation 14plus selection Goddess Of The Fireflies and Frankel starring Berlinale international jury president Jeremy Irons.
Anick Poirier and Lorne Price’s team will be in Berlin introducing buyers to three other titles, having boarded Quebec Christmas hit Thanks For Everything (Merci Pour Tout), which is approaching $1m (C$1.3m), youth drama Flashwood, and Pascal Plante’s Nadia Butterfly, about a professional swimmer in her 20s facing retirement.
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s Goddess Of The Fireflies (La Déesse Des Mouches À Feu) is...
- 1/23/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Quebec Christmas hit Thanks For Everything among roster.
Montreal-based WaZabi Films is launching four titles at Efm including Generations 14+ selection Goddess Of The Fireflies and Frankel starring Berlinale international jury president Jeremy Irons.
Anick Poirier and Lorne Price’s team will be in Berlin introducing buyers to three other titles, having boarded Quebec Christmas hit Thanks For Everything (Merci Pour Tout), which is approaching $1m (C$1.3m), youth drama Flashwood, and Pascal Plante’s Nadia Butterfly, about a professional swimmer in her 20s facing retirement.
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s Goddess Of The Fireflies (La Déesse Des Mouches À Feu) is based...
Montreal-based WaZabi Films is launching four titles at Efm including Generations 14+ selection Goddess Of The Fireflies and Frankel starring Berlinale international jury president Jeremy Irons.
Anick Poirier and Lorne Price’s team will be in Berlin introducing buyers to three other titles, having boarded Quebec Christmas hit Thanks For Everything (Merci Pour Tout), which is approaching $1m (C$1.3m), youth drama Flashwood, and Pascal Plante’s Nadia Butterfly, about a professional swimmer in her 20s facing retirement.
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s Goddess Of The Fireflies (La Déesse Des Mouches À Feu) is based...
- 1/23/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Jeremy Irons, currently appearing in HBO’s “Watchmen” and an Oscar winner with “Reversal of Fortune,” is to star in and produce biopic “Frankel,” which WaZabi Films will be selling at next week’s Afm.
Irons plays horse trainer Sir Henry Cecil, who fought years of failure and illness to make Frankel the greatest champion racehorse of all time, unbeaten in all 14 starts, and bowing out with an emotional victory in front of a capacity crowd at the Champion Stakes at Ascot Racecourse.
Irons produces the film, which is expected to go into production in the spring, alongside Andrew Berg and John Sachs of Eclipse Films. It is written by Jim Piddock and directed by Ron Scalpello.
WaZabi will handle worldwide sales on the film, and will co-sell the U.S. with CAA. WaZabi co-presidents Anick Poirier and Lorne Price said they “immediately connected with the determination and resilience of the story.
Irons plays horse trainer Sir Henry Cecil, who fought years of failure and illness to make Frankel the greatest champion racehorse of all time, unbeaten in all 14 starts, and bowing out with an emotional victory in front of a capacity crowd at the Champion Stakes at Ascot Racecourse.
Irons produces the film, which is expected to go into production in the spring, alongside Andrew Berg and John Sachs of Eclipse Films. It is written by Jim Piddock and directed by Ron Scalpello.
WaZabi will handle worldwide sales on the film, and will co-sell the U.S. with CAA. WaZabi co-presidents Anick Poirier and Lorne Price said they “immediately connected with the determination and resilience of the story.
- 10/29/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Sales slate includes Patrick Stewart pianist drama Coda.
WaZabi Films co-founders Anick Poirier and Lorne Price have added the latest hot title to their slate and will launch pre-sales at Afm next week on Frankel to star Jeremy Irons as the legendary racehorse trainer Sir Henry Cecil.
Irons, currently starring in the HBO hit Watchmen, will also produce the drama about the late postwar trainer who battled years of setbacks and illness and discovered a new lease on life when he worked with the titular British thoroughbred.
Cecil turned Frankel into a legend in the sport, undefeated in a 14-race...
WaZabi Films co-founders Anick Poirier and Lorne Price have added the latest hot title to their slate and will launch pre-sales at Afm next week on Frankel to star Jeremy Irons as the legendary racehorse trainer Sir Henry Cecil.
Irons, currently starring in the HBO hit Watchmen, will also produce the drama about the late postwar trainer who battled years of setbacks and illness and discovered a new lease on life when he worked with the titular British thoroughbred.
Cecil turned Frankel into a legend in the sport, undefeated in a 14-race...
- 10/28/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Producers previously struck deals on spiritual tale for France, Belgium, Switzerland.
WaZabi Films has reported a strong response from buyers at Venice Days to Fabienne Berthaud’s A Bigger World and has struck key deals following the world premiere.
Anick Poirier and Lorne Price’s new Montreal-based sales company has licensed rights in Germany and Austria to Mfa+, after the producers closed earlier deals with Haut et Court for France, Scope for Benelux, and Jmh for Switzerland.
A Bigger World (Un Monde Plus Grand) stars Cécile de France as Corine, who leaves Paris to spend a few weeks in Mongolia...
WaZabi Films has reported a strong response from buyers at Venice Days to Fabienne Berthaud’s A Bigger World and has struck key deals following the world premiere.
Anick Poirier and Lorne Price’s new Montreal-based sales company has licensed rights in Germany and Austria to Mfa+, after the producers closed earlier deals with Haut et Court for France, Scope for Benelux, and Jmh for Switzerland.
A Bigger World (Un Monde Plus Grand) stars Cécile de France as Corine, who leaves Paris to spend a few weeks in Mongolia...
- 9/2/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Production in Tasmania scheduled for spring 2020.
WaZabi Films co-founders Anick Poirier and Lorne Price continue to assemble a prestige slate and on the eve of Venice and Toronto have boarded sales on zombie thriller Devil Inside to star Australian talents Rachael Taylor and Ryan Kwanten.
Jonathan auf der Heide will direct, while David Ngo produces, and Bryce Menzies (Hotel Mumbai) and Clement Dunn (Ghost Hunters) are the executive producers. Oscar-winning New South Wales-based prosthetics and effects aces Odd Studio, which has worked on Mad Max: Fury Road and Alien: Covenant among many others, has also come on board.
The elevated...
WaZabi Films co-founders Anick Poirier and Lorne Price continue to assemble a prestige slate and on the eve of Venice and Toronto have boarded sales on zombie thriller Devil Inside to star Australian talents Rachael Taylor and Ryan Kwanten.
Jonathan auf der Heide will direct, while David Ngo produces, and Bryce Menzies (Hotel Mumbai) and Clement Dunn (Ghost Hunters) are the executive producers. Oscar-winning New South Wales-based prosthetics and effects aces Odd Studio, which has worked on Mad Max: Fury Road and Alien: Covenant among many others, has also come on board.
The elevated...
- 8/28/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Oualid Mouaness’ drama joins Sophie Deraspe’s Contemporary World Cinema entry Antigone on Tiff slate.
Anick Poirier and Lorne Price’s new sales agency WaZabi Films has announced its first acquisition, picking up the majority of worldwide rights to Lebanon-set 1982 starring Nadine Labaki ahead of its world premiere in Tiff Discovery next month.
Oualid Mouaness’ feature debut takes place against the backdrop of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and is set at a private school on the outskirts of Beirut, as 11-year-old Wissam tries to tell a classmate he loves her.
Meanwhile his teachers – on different sides of the political spectrum...
Anick Poirier and Lorne Price’s new sales agency WaZabi Films has announced its first acquisition, picking up the majority of worldwide rights to Lebanon-set 1982 starring Nadine Labaki ahead of its world premiere in Tiff Discovery next month.
Oualid Mouaness’ feature debut takes place against the backdrop of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and is set at a private school on the outskirts of Beirut, as 11-year-old Wissam tries to tell a classmate he loves her.
Meanwhile his teachers – on different sides of the political spectrum...
- 8/16/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Industry veterans Anick Poirier and Lorne Price have launched Quebec-based WaZabi Films, an international sales agency that will license theatrical feature films to distributors worldwide. WaZabi has signed a pact with Les Films Séville to represent films from the executives’ former company, Séville Intl.
Poirier and Price, who will serve as co-presidents of the new venture, will focus on strong independent films with crossover potential, and art-house films with award pedigree. The company will form part of production outfit Datsit Sphère.
“We are excited to continue to passionately represent the best that film has to offer to audiences worldwide. We are aiming to represent between 10 to 15 films per year and are currently exploring several options from all over the world,” Poirier said.
Price added, “We are equally excited to do it as part of the Datsit Sphère team. As a multi-faceted, dynamic company, it will also allow us to explore expanding our activities.
Poirier and Price, who will serve as co-presidents of the new venture, will focus on strong independent films with crossover potential, and art-house films with award pedigree. The company will form part of production outfit Datsit Sphère.
“We are excited to continue to passionately represent the best that film has to offer to audiences worldwide. We are aiming to represent between 10 to 15 films per year and are currently exploring several options from all over the world,” Poirier said.
Price added, “We are equally excited to do it as part of the Datsit Sphère team. As a multi-faceted, dynamic company, it will also allow us to explore expanding our activities.
- 7/25/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Founders strike exclusive distribution pact on Séville International catalogue.
Former Seville International executives Anick Poirier and Lorne Price have launched sales agency WaZabi Films with to focus on independent features with crossover potential, and art house films with awards pedigree from Québec, Canada, and the world.
WaZabi Films has struck an agreement with Les Films Séville to handle exclusive distribution of the Séville International catalogue including Cannes selections Matthias et Maxime from Xavier Dolan and Monia Chokri’s La Femme de Mon Frère.
The move effectively marks the end of eOne-owned Séville International, which had been winding down ever since...
Former Seville International executives Anick Poirier and Lorne Price have launched sales agency WaZabi Films with to focus on independent features with crossover potential, and art house films with awards pedigree from Québec, Canada, and the world.
WaZabi Films has struck an agreement with Les Films Séville to handle exclusive distribution of the Séville International catalogue including Cannes selections Matthias et Maxime from Xavier Dolan and Monia Chokri’s La Femme de Mon Frère.
The move effectively marks the end of eOne-owned Séville International, which had been winding down ever since...
- 7/23/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Founders strike exclusive distribution pact on Séville International catalogue.
Former Seville International chief Anick Poirier and Lorne Price have launched sales agency WaZabi Films with to focus on independent features with crossover potential, and art house films with awards pedigree from Québec, Canada, and the world.
WaZabi Films has struck an agreement with Les Films Séville to handle exclusive distribution of the Séville International catalogue including Cannes selections Matthias et Maxime from Xavier Dolan and Monia Chokri’s La Femme de Mon Frère.
Poirier, who until recently served as head of international sales at Séville International, and Price, formerly director of sales at Seville International,...
Former Seville International chief Anick Poirier and Lorne Price have launched sales agency WaZabi Films with to focus on independent features with crossover potential, and art house films with awards pedigree from Québec, Canada, and the world.
WaZabi Films has struck an agreement with Les Films Séville to handle exclusive distribution of the Séville International catalogue including Cannes selections Matthias et Maxime from Xavier Dolan and Monia Chokri’s La Femme de Mon Frère.
Poirier, who until recently served as head of international sales at Séville International, and Price, formerly director of sales at Seville International,...
- 7/23/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Former Seville International Execs Anick Poirier & Lorne Price Launch Film Sales Outfit WaZabi Films
Exclusive: Former Seville International execs Anick Poirier and Lorne Price are launching international sales company WaZabi Films in the wake of eOne shuttering indie films stalwart Seville.
The new Montreal-based agency will serve as a full service sales agent that licenses theatrical features to distributors worldwide. The duo will serve as co-presidents of the new venture, which is backed by Canadian production group Datsit Sphere.
The focus will be on independent films with crossover potential, and art house films with awards pedigree from Québec, Canada and around the globe. The firm has also struck a deal with Les Films Séville to exclusively distribute films from the Seville International catalogue including Cannes selections Matthias et Maxime from Xavier Dolan and Monia Chokri’s La femme De Mon Frère.
“It is important that Quebec films be distributed internationally by a local company,” explained Patrick Roy, President of Les Films Séville, about the deal with WaZabi.
The new Montreal-based agency will serve as a full service sales agent that licenses theatrical features to distributors worldwide. The duo will serve as co-presidents of the new venture, which is backed by Canadian production group Datsit Sphere.
The focus will be on independent films with crossover potential, and art house films with awards pedigree from Québec, Canada and around the globe. The firm has also struck a deal with Les Films Séville to exclusively distribute films from the Seville International catalogue including Cannes selections Matthias et Maxime from Xavier Dolan and Monia Chokri’s La femme De Mon Frère.
“It is important that Quebec films be distributed internationally by a local company,” explained Patrick Roy, President of Les Films Séville, about the deal with WaZabi.
- 7/23/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Independent strand of Venice festival selects 11 titles for its competition.
The world premiere of Dominik Moll’s Only The Animals will open Venice Days, the independent strand of the Venice film festival that will run alongside the festival from August 28 - September 7.
Moll’s film will play in competition, alongside 10 other titles, while Bartabas’ Time Of The Untamed will close the festival, out of competition.
German-born French director Moll’s previous credits include With A Friend Like Harry, which premiered at Cannes in 2000 and was Bafta nominated.
Elsewhere, Italian graphic novelist and director Igort (Igor Tuveri) premieres his crime drama 5 Is The Perfect Number,...
The world premiere of Dominik Moll’s Only The Animals will open Venice Days, the independent strand of the Venice film festival that will run alongside the festival from August 28 - September 7.
Moll’s film will play in competition, alongside 10 other titles, while Bartabas’ Time Of The Untamed will close the festival, out of competition.
German-born French director Moll’s previous credits include With A Friend Like Harry, which premiered at Cannes in 2000 and was Bafta nominated.
Elsewhere, Italian graphic novelist and director Igort (Igor Tuveri) premieres his crime drama 5 Is The Perfect Number,...
- 7/23/2019
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
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