Haugesund, Norway — On Wednesday morning, shortly before this year’s New Nordic Films Works in Progress screening was due to begin, a handful of industry veterans sat for a panel that picked up right where last year’s Wip program left off.
Presented in collaboration with Europa Distribution, the panel – called “The Value Chain: A Case Study” – tracked the serendipitous path of the recent Danish hit “Queen of Hearts,” one of the standout titles of the 2018 Works in Progress session.
Moderated by Screen journalist Wendy Mitchell, the panel brought together sales agent Silje Nikoline Glimsdal (TrustNordisk), festival consultant Christian Juhl Lemche (Danish Film Institute), Lithuanian festival programmer Aiste Racaityte (Kino Pavasaris) and British distributor Frances Harvey (Thunderbird Releasing), with each panelist detailing their own experiences shepherding the film into its eventual release.
Both Lemche and Glimsdal stressed the importance of securing a strong festival launch when handling a film with challenging subject matter.
Presented in collaboration with Europa Distribution, the panel – called “The Value Chain: A Case Study” – tracked the serendipitous path of the recent Danish hit “Queen of Hearts,” one of the standout titles of the 2018 Works in Progress session.
Moderated by Screen journalist Wendy Mitchell, the panel brought together sales agent Silje Nikoline Glimsdal (TrustNordisk), festival consultant Christian Juhl Lemche (Danish Film Institute), Lithuanian festival programmer Aiste Racaityte (Kino Pavasaris) and British distributor Frances Harvey (Thunderbird Releasing), with each panelist detailing their own experiences shepherding the film into its eventual release.
Both Lemche and Glimsdal stressed the importance of securing a strong festival launch when handling a film with challenging subject matter.
- 8/23/2019
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Distributor to handle theatrical and home ent in the UK.
Distributor Soda Pictures has acquired British thriller Breakdown for theatrical and home entertainment distribution in the UK.
The action thriller stars Craig Fairbrass (Rise of the Footsoldier as a professional contract killer who is forced to defend his family from his ruthless employers who turn against him.
It marks the debut feature from British writer-director Jonnie Malachi, who developed the film with production companies Screen 360, Impact Entertainment and Red Rock Entertainment.
The cast also includes Emmett J Scanlan (Guardians of the Galaxy) James Cosmo (Game of Thrones,), Mem Ferder (Pusher), Olivia Grant (Stardust), Tamer Hassan (The Business), Bruce Payne (Passenger 57) and Amanda Wass (The Seasoning House).
Producer is Luke Fairbrass of Impact Entertainment with executive producers Gary Collins, Jack Fairbrass and Craig Fairbrass.
The deal was negotiated between Luke Fairbrass and Soda Pictures’ acquisitions manager Frances Harvey.
Breakdown will receive its UK premiere on Jan...
Distributor Soda Pictures has acquired British thriller Breakdown for theatrical and home entertainment distribution in the UK.
The action thriller stars Craig Fairbrass (Rise of the Footsoldier as a professional contract killer who is forced to defend his family from his ruthless employers who turn against him.
It marks the debut feature from British writer-director Jonnie Malachi, who developed the film with production companies Screen 360, Impact Entertainment and Red Rock Entertainment.
The cast also includes Emmett J Scanlan (Guardians of the Galaxy) James Cosmo (Game of Thrones,), Mem Ferder (Pusher), Olivia Grant (Stardust), Tamer Hassan (The Business), Bruce Payne (Passenger 57) and Amanda Wass (The Seasoning House).
Producer is Luke Fairbrass of Impact Entertainment with executive producers Gary Collins, Jack Fairbrass and Craig Fairbrass.
The deal was negotiated between Luke Fairbrass and Soda Pictures’ acquisitions manager Frances Harvey.
Breakdown will receive its UK premiere on Jan...
- 12/18/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
British psychological thriller Dartmoor Killing is using an innovative distribution, starting with self-distribution in cinemas from September 18 followed by a DVD and VOD release by Soda Pictures later in the autumn.
The story follows two friends When on a hiking weekend on Dartmoor, both are carrying secrets they have not shared. An encounter with a man on the moors leads them into a terrifying ordeal.
Frances Harvey, acquisitions manager at Soda said: “We were first introduced to Dartmoor Killing at Film London’s Micro Market and are thrilled to be working with the team on the DVD and digital release of the film.”
The film’s theatrical plans a run at the Barn Cinema in Darlington and new sites added for the Merlin and Scott cinema chains as well as Bristol’s Watershed.
Dartmoor Killing, which stars Gemma-Leah Devereux, Rebecca Night, Callum Blue and David Hayman, has also been selected for the Breakthrough Strand of Film London...
The story follows two friends When on a hiking weekend on Dartmoor, both are carrying secrets they have not shared. An encounter with a man on the moors leads them into a terrifying ordeal.
Frances Harvey, acquisitions manager at Soda said: “We were first introduced to Dartmoor Killing at Film London’s Micro Market and are thrilled to be working with the team on the DVD and digital release of the film.”
The film’s theatrical plans a run at the Barn Cinema in Darlington and new sites added for the Merlin and Scott cinema chains as well as Bristol’s Watershed.
Dartmoor Killing, which stars Gemma-Leah Devereux, Rebecca Night, Callum Blue and David Hayman, has also been selected for the Breakthrough Strand of Film London...
- 6/17/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Dark drama stars Game of Thrones’ Hannah Murray.
New Europe Film Sales has sold UK and Irish rights to Jeppe Rønde’s thriller Bridgend to Soda Pictures.
The deal for the film, which recently won three awards at Tribeca Film Festival, was brokered in Cannes by Frances Harvey and Jan Naszewski.
Bridgend is a Wales-set thriller starring Hannah Murray (God Help the Girl, Game of Thrones), Steven Waddington and Josh O’Connor. It is inspired by true events and the spate of teen suicides from 2007 committed in Bridgend, a small former coal-mining province in Wales.
New Europe also sold TV rights for the film in Eastern and Central Europe to HBO Europe/Cinemax and reports strong interest from all-rights buyers in the Us, Scandinavia and Asia.
New Europe Film Sales has sold UK and Irish rights to Jeppe Rønde’s thriller Bridgend to Soda Pictures.
The deal for the film, which recently won three awards at Tribeca Film Festival, was brokered in Cannes by Frances Harvey and Jan Naszewski.
Bridgend is a Wales-set thriller starring Hannah Murray (God Help the Girl, Game of Thrones), Steven Waddington and Josh O’Connor. It is inspired by true events and the spate of teen suicides from 2007 committed in Bridgend, a small former coal-mining province in Wales.
New Europe also sold TV rights for the film in Eastern and Central Europe to HBO Europe/Cinemax and reports strong interest from all-rights buyers in the Us, Scandinavia and Asia.
- 5/18/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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