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EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired US distribution rights to Debora Stratman’s well-received newest Final Issues, which premiered within the New Frontiers part at this yr’s Sundance Movie Pageant.
The movie will open theatrically in New York at Anthology Movie Archives on January 12 on a 35mm print earlier than increasing throughout the nation. The movie’s broad synopsis reads: Final Issues appears at evolution and extinction from the attitude of the rocks and minerals that got here earlier than humanity and can outlast us. With scientists and thinkers like Lynn Margulis and Marcia Bjørnerud as guides and quoting from the proto-Sci-fi texts of JH Rosny, Deborah Stratman gives a surprising array of photographs, from microscopic kinds to huge landscapes, and seeks an image of evolution with out people on the middle.
After Sundance, Final Issues went on to play Berlin and NYFF and picked up prizes at Dokufest Kosovo and Berwick Movie and Media Arts Pageant. This deal was negotiated by Tom Sveen and Peter Kelly of Cinema Guild with the movie’s producers.
“We have lengthy been followers of Deborah Stratman’s wealthy and rigorous physique of labor,” mentioned Sveen. “And Final Issues finds her at her most ingenious, trying to the oldest matter on the planet and discovering new photographs and new potentialities.”
Stratman added: “It is a dream to be releasing Final Issues within the firm of killer new works by Laura Citarella, Claire Simon, Bas Devos, and Angela Schanelec, who’ve made palms down a few of the greatest, most difficult cinema I’ve seen this yr. Thanks to Cinema Guild for supporting these visionary movies and for striving to get extra eyes on them.”
Cinema Guild’s different upcoming releases embrace Hong Sangsoo’s In Water, Bas Devos’ Right here, and Angela Schanelec’s Music. Latest releases embrace Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen and Claire Simon’s Our Physique.
Cinema Guild Acquires Debora Stratman’s ‘Final Issues’ – Deadline
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