Sales include re-release deal for ’Welcome To The Dollhouse’ in UK.
Visit Films, which is jetting in to Berlin to launch EFM sales on Berlinale section Dreams’ Gate among other titles, has announced a wave of deals on recent festival hits including a US deal and multiple territories on last year’s Berlin Silver Bear winner Robe Of Gems.
Natalia Lopez’s tale of redemption, family and violence in Mexico will open in the US this summer through Monument Releasing and has also gone to Madman Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand, as well as Mubi for Italy, Baltics, Africa,...
Visit Films, which is jetting in to Berlin to launch EFM sales on Berlinale section Dreams’ Gate among other titles, has announced a wave of deals on recent festival hits including a US deal and multiple territories on last year’s Berlin Silver Bear winner Robe Of Gems.
Natalia Lopez’s tale of redemption, family and violence in Mexico will open in the US this summer through Monument Releasing and has also gone to Madman Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand, as well as Mubi for Italy, Baltics, Africa,...
- 2/10/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Breathtakingly shot documentary records long push to cross a series of Alaskan mountains, and the geographer who first charted them
Fifteen miles to the south-east of Denali, the highest peak in North America, lies a colossal mountain range that rears from the ground like a vertiginous jaw. Fittingly, the various summits of this natural wonder are called Moose’s Tooth, Eye Tooth, Sugar Tooth and Broken Tooth. While many explorers have conquered each of these peaks, none have attempted a lateral climb from summit to summit,akin to walking atop the skyline. But a black-and-white aerial photograph of the forbidding path, all snow-capped and wrapped in billowy clouds, beckons the adventurous spirit of mountaineers Renan Ozturk, Freddie Wilkinson and Zach Smith.
Directed by Ozturk and Wilkinson, this awe-inspiring documentary is as much about their years-long attempts to scale the Tooth traverse as it is about Brad Washburn, the man behind...
Fifteen miles to the south-east of Denali, the highest peak in North America, lies a colossal mountain range that rears from the ground like a vertiginous jaw. Fittingly, the various summits of this natural wonder are called Moose’s Tooth, Eye Tooth, Sugar Tooth and Broken Tooth. While many explorers have conquered each of these peaks, none have attempted a lateral climb from summit to summit,akin to walking atop the skyline. But a black-and-white aerial photograph of the forbidding path, all snow-capped and wrapped in billowy clouds, beckons the adventurous spirit of mountaineers Renan Ozturk, Freddie Wilkinson and Zach Smith.
Directed by Ozturk and Wilkinson, this awe-inspiring documentary is as much about their years-long attempts to scale the Tooth traverse as it is about Brad Washburn, the man behind...
- 2/28/2022
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
Acquisition follow recent deals for German-speaking Europe, France, Italy.
Visit Films has struck a US deal with Greenwich Entertainment on its EFM sales title and adventure documentary The Sanctity Of Space directed by Meru cinematographer Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson.
The film received its world premiere at Vancouver International Film Festival last year and follows climbers Ozturk and Wilkinson, a journalist and adventure writer, as they retrace the steps of legendary mountaineer and photographer Brad Washburn.
Inspired by Washburn’s photographs of Denali National Park in Alaska from 75 years ago, the group plan to scale the range’s forbidding Mooses Tooth massif sideways,...
Visit Films has struck a US deal with Greenwich Entertainment on its EFM sales title and adventure documentary The Sanctity Of Space directed by Meru cinematographer Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson.
The film received its world premiere at Vancouver International Film Festival last year and follows climbers Ozturk and Wilkinson, a journalist and adventure writer, as they retrace the steps of legendary mountaineer and photographer Brad Washburn.
Inspired by Washburn’s photographs of Denali National Park in Alaska from 75 years ago, the group plan to scale the range’s forbidding Mooses Tooth massif sideways,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Slate sales on SXSW winners Alice, Saint Frances, Tito.
Visit Films has concluded a raft of deals on its Afm slate that includes documentaries White Riot and The Sanctity Of Space, and Toronto drama Hearts And Bones starring Hugo Weaving.
Company president Ryan Kampe and director of sales Lydia Rodman have licensed White Riot in the UK (Modern Films), Australia and New Zealand (Icon Film Distribution), Films We Like (Canada) and Benelux (Periscoop). Rubika Shah’s punk rock documentary won the Grierson Award for best documentary at BFI London Film Festival and an international premiere is being lined up for a major festival.
Visit Films has concluded a raft of deals on its Afm slate that includes documentaries White Riot and The Sanctity Of Space, and Toronto drama Hearts And Bones starring Hugo Weaving.
Company president Ryan Kampe and director of sales Lydia Rodman have licensed White Riot in the UK (Modern Films), Australia and New Zealand (Icon Film Distribution), Films We Like (Canada) and Benelux (Periscoop). Rubika Shah’s punk rock documentary won the Grierson Award for best documentary at BFI London Film Festival and an international premiere is being lined up for a major festival.
- 11/19/2019
- ScreenDaily
Diane, State Like Sleep, A Family Submerged among other hot sellers.
Heading into Cannes, Visit Films has reported a strong response to its line-up and has licensed mountain climbing documentary The Sanctity Of Space to Dogwoof in the UK, and Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand.
Currently in post-production, the film is directed by Renan Ozturk, who co-directed the critically acclaimed Sherpa and was the cinematographer and one of the main subjects of Sundance award winner Meru, and Freddie Wilkinson, a renowned Alpinist and adventure writer.
The Sanctity Of Space is in the vein of Oscar winner Free Solo and Dawn Wall,...
Heading into Cannes, Visit Films has reported a strong response to its line-up and has licensed mountain climbing documentary The Sanctity Of Space to Dogwoof in the UK, and Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand.
Currently in post-production, the film is directed by Renan Ozturk, who co-directed the critically acclaimed Sherpa and was the cinematographer and one of the main subjects of Sundance award winner Meru, and Freddie Wilkinson, a renowned Alpinist and adventure writer.
The Sanctity Of Space is in the vein of Oscar winner Free Solo and Dawn Wall,...
- 5/7/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
New York-based Visit Films has acquired international sales rights to doc “The Sanctity of Space,” co-directed by Renan Ozturk.
Ozturk was one of the cinematographers and climbers on “Meru,” the breakthrough film of “Free Solo” directors Jimmy Chin and E. Chai Vasarhely.
Also a Dp and and director of high-altitude scenes on “Sherpa,” which Variety acclaimed as packing a “visual and emotional punch,” Ozturk co-directs “The Sanctity of Space” with climber-writer Freddie Wilkinson.
Visit Films will be presenting a private promo of the film, currently in post-production, to key partners at the Efm.
“The Sanctity of Space” follows climbing buddies Ozturk, Wilkinson and Zack Smith as they retrace the steps of legendary mountaineer, explorer and photographer Bradford Washburn, who put up many of the first ascents in Alaska.
Inspired by Washburn’s photographs of Alaska’s Denali National Park in Alaska from 75 years ago, “The Sanctity of Space” weaves Washburn...
Ozturk was one of the cinematographers and climbers on “Meru,” the breakthrough film of “Free Solo” directors Jimmy Chin and E. Chai Vasarhely.
Also a Dp and and director of high-altitude scenes on “Sherpa,” which Variety acclaimed as packing a “visual and emotional punch,” Ozturk co-directs “The Sanctity of Space” with climber-writer Freddie Wilkinson.
Visit Films will be presenting a private promo of the film, currently in post-production, to key partners at the Efm.
“The Sanctity of Space” follows climbing buddies Ozturk, Wilkinson and Zack Smith as they retrace the steps of legendary mountaineer, explorer and photographer Bradford Washburn, who put up many of the first ascents in Alaska.
Inspired by Washburn’s photographs of Alaska’s Denali National Park in Alaska from 75 years ago, “The Sanctity of Space” weaves Washburn...
- 2/8/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Variety recently reported that director Gavin O’Connor (Warrior, Miracle) has been hired to helm a fictionalized version of Freddie Wilkinson’s “Men’s Journal” story called Massacre in the Himalayas.
The story follows a group of mountain climbers that were on a journey to the top of K2 in Pakistan. Their adventure took a horrible turn when they were taken hostage by attackers. The story is amazing, you can read it here.
Here is what O’Connor told Variety about why he wanted to take helm of this picture:
"I love the idea of using the colossal backdrop of K2, the second highest peak on earth, to explore a man’s battle for survival against the Taliban, nature, and himself. Our hero becomes a one-man army on a quest to avenge the deaths of his mountaineering team. His experience becomes a living nightmare, a lifetime journey, and a redefinition of the man.
The story follows a group of mountain climbers that were on a journey to the top of K2 in Pakistan. Their adventure took a horrible turn when they were taken hostage by attackers. The story is amazing, you can read it here.
Here is what O’Connor told Variety about why he wanted to take helm of this picture:
"I love the idea of using the colossal backdrop of K2, the second highest peak on earth, to explore a man’s battle for survival against the Taliban, nature, and himself. Our hero becomes a one-man army on a quest to avenge the deaths of his mountaineering team. His experience becomes a living nightmare, a lifetime journey, and a redefinition of the man.
- 6/4/2014
- by Billy Fisher
- GeekTyrant
Tim Roth will play George Wallace, the Alabama governor who favored segregation and whose bullying tactics galvanized Martin Luther King Jr and the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, in Ava DuVernay's Selma. Deadline Will Smith has dropped out of starring in Brilliance and will instead star in a film based on the NFL's concussion problem based on the GQ article "Game Brain" written by Jeanne Marie Laskas. Peter Landesman (Parkland) will write and direct. Variety Gavin O'Connor (Warrior) recently took over directing the troubled Jane Got a Gun and will next move to the action adventure Massacre in the Himalayas following an international team of world-class mountain climbers who are intent on conquering the K2 summit in Pakistan, and are plunged into a grueling journey when attacked by a group of extremists. The story is based on the August 2013 article of the same title at "Men's Health" by Freddie Wilkinson.
- 6/4/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
As his career has pressed forward, director Gavin O'Connor's film titles have gotten progressively blunter: "Pride And Glory," "Warrior" and his forthcoming, "Jane Got A Gun." And now he's got another that makes no bones about the subject and thematic elements. The director has signed up to helm "Massacre In The Himalayas," which is exactly what it sounds like. The film will be based on Men's Journal article (read it here) by Freddie Wilkinson, that tells the true story of a dozen mountain climbers, trying to reach the summit of K2, who are attacked and eventually killed by Pakistani terrorists. Ten were killed, with one surviving by jumping off a cliff... And while it's a great true story, Variety notes it will be fictionalized, but let's hope they don't get too creative with the adaptation. No word yet on whether or not this will be the filmmaker's next effort,...
- 6/3/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
As his career has pressed forward, director Gavin O'Connor's film titles have gotten progressively blunter: "Pride And Glory," "Warrior" and his forthcoming, "Jane Got A Gun." And now he's got another that makes no bones about the subject and thematic elements. The director has signed up to helm "Massacre In The Himalayas," which is exactly what it sounds like. The film will be based on Men's Journal article (read it here) by Freddie Wilkinson, that tells the true story of a dozen mountain climbers, trying to reach the summit of K2, who are attacked and eventually killed by Pakistani terrorists. Ten were killed, with one surviving by jumping off a cliff... And while it's a great true story, Variety notes it will be fictionalized, but let's hope they don't get too creative with the adaptation. No word yet on whether or not this will be the filmmaker's next effort,...
- 6/3/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
"I love the idea of using the colossal backdrop of K2, the second highest peak on earth, to explore a man’s battle for survival against the Taliban, nature, and himself. Our hero becomes a one-man army on a quest to avenge the deaths of his mountaineering team. His experience becomes a living nightmare, a lifetime journey, and a redefinition of the man."
Are those the words of the man behind the recently-announced Cliffhanger remake? No, it's Gavin O'Connor (Warrior) discussing his next project, Massacre In The Himalayas. Variety is reporting that the director has just signed on to helm the action-adventure, which is currently still seeking screenwriters. The film will be based on Freddie Wilkinson’s story for “Men’s Journal.”
"‘Massacre In The Himalayas’ is a Hollywood Gang kind of movie,” says producer Gianni Nunnari. “It’s hard-hitting and it’s about extreme men in extreme circumstance. And...
Are those the words of the man behind the recently-announced Cliffhanger remake? No, it's Gavin O'Connor (Warrior) discussing his next project, Massacre In The Himalayas. Variety is reporting that the director has just signed on to helm the action-adventure, which is currently still seeking screenwriters. The film will be based on Freddie Wilkinson’s story for “Men’s Journal.”
"‘Massacre In The Himalayas’ is a Hollywood Gang kind of movie,” says producer Gianni Nunnari. “It’s hard-hitting and it’s about extreme men in extreme circumstance. And...
- 6/3/2014
- by Mario-Francisco Robles
- LRMonline.com
Since directing the satisfying fighting drama Warrior, filmmaker Gavin O'Connor stepped behind the camera for the once-struggling western Jane Got a Gun. Now he's lining up another feature film gig as Variety reports O'Connor will be at the helm of Massacre in the Himalayas, a film in development at Hollywood Gang Productions based on an August 2013 article from Men's Journal. The true story from Freddie Wilkinson follows an international team of world-class mountain climbers intent on conquering the K2 summit in Pakistan, but are plunged into a grueling journey when attacked by a group of extremists. The attack resulted in the death of 10 climbers and their Pakistani cook as well. Perhaps what's most interesting about this tale, besides the fact that it's true, is that it takes place on one of the highest points on the planet. A screenwriter will be found to script a fictionalized version of the story,...
- 6/3/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Gavin O’Connor clearly likes a challenge. Having taken the helm of the troubled western, Jane Got A Gun – just 25 hours after original director Lynne Ramsay left, on the first day of production – he hit the ground running, and steered it to completion. With that job done and dusted, he has now signed on to a new project – Massacre In The Himalayas.
Inspired by an article by Freddie Wilkinson, that appeared in Men’s Journal in 2013, the story centres on real-life events that befell an international team of elite mountaineers as they attempted to climb Pakistan’s K2. While resting in their tents at the base camp below the Diamir face of Nanga Parbat, the group were attacked by armed men identifying themselves as Taliban. The assault left one solitary survivor from the group of 12 – a Chinese mountaineer named Zhang Jingchuan. In addition to being a seasoned climber, he was...
Inspired by an article by Freddie Wilkinson, that appeared in Men’s Journal in 2013, the story centres on real-life events that befell an international team of elite mountaineers as they attempted to climb Pakistan’s K2. While resting in their tents at the base camp below the Diamir face of Nanga Parbat, the group were attacked by armed men identifying themselves as Taliban. The assault left one solitary survivor from the group of 12 – a Chinese mountaineer named Zhang Jingchuan. In addition to being a seasoned climber, he was...
- 6/3/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Warrior helmer Gavin O'Connor has, according to Variety, lined up a new project in Massacre in the Himalayas, a big screen adaptation of reporter Freddie Wilkinson's true account of how a group of climbers came under attack by Pakistani terrorists and how one man, Zhang Jingchuan, managed to survive. You can read the report in its entirety at Men's Journal.
- 6/3/2014
- Comingsoon.net
The smoke has just cleared on Gavin O’Connor's Western drama Jane Got A Gun and he’s already set on another project. The director will now helm Massacre In The Himalayas; an adaptation of the Freddie Wilkinson story about an international team of experienced mountain climbers who attempted to summit Pakistan's K2 when they were attacked by terrorists. It sounds harrowing and badass to say the least; the inspiration comes from the August 2013...
- 6/2/2014
- by Graham McMorrow
- JoBlo.com
He’s most recently rode to the rescue of troubled Western drama Jane Got A Gun, but for a future film, director Gavin O’Connor is tackling a real-life story of danger and weaponry. He’s boarded Massacre In The Himalayas.The idea for the film was sparked by an article in Men’s Journal by Freddie Wilkinson, which chronicled what happened when a top-class team of international mountaineers began an attempt to conquer K2 in Pakistan. While their journey was already perilous, they faced an equal threat from extremists, who attacked the party and killed 10 climbers and the local Pakistani cook who had been travelling with them.300 producer Gianni Nunnari bought the rights to the article, which was first published last August. He’s secured O’Connor to direct and the pair will start looking for a writer. “I love the idea of using the colossal backdrop of K...
- 6/2/2014
- EmpireOnline
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