Sundance Selects announced today that the company has acquired North American rights to Chiemi Karasawa’s directorial debut "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," a feature documentary about the stage and screen icon that made its world premiere last week at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival (check out Indiewire'...
Read More »Sundance Selects/IFC Films President, Jonathan Sehring, has announced a series of executive promotions over at the label. Lauren Schwartz will be leading film publicity and Shani Ankori will lead marketing for Sundance Selects and IFC Films. Michael Winton will lead publicity and marketing for IFC M...
Read More »Sundance Selects announced that it has acquiried North American and Latin American rights to Alexandre Moors’ debut feature "Blue Caprice," which made its world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
Read More »Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Nick Ryan’s documentary “The Summit,” which had its world premiere Friday, Jan. 18, at the Sundance Film Festival.
Read More »Fourteen years after he helped launch the Dogme 95 movement with his family drama “The Celebration,” director Thomas Vinterberg returned to Cannes this past month with his latest film, “The Hunt.” As the Croisette is wont to do, reactions were immensely divided, with some cal...
Read More »Every major film festival ends with films being gobbled up by distributors, and the Cannes Film Festival is no different.
Read More »Tracking the festival circuit can sometimes be a frustrating venture as distribution deals (or lack thereof) can negate anticipation and excitement. For smaller-name films, foreign ones in particular, it's sometimes a matter of years before a far away festival hit is released locally. American fans ...
Read More »While there will be a lot of dealmaking done over glasses of chardonnay at Cannes, a few are going to be done before the festival kicks off, and in what is one of the biggest so far, one of the most high profile movies premiering on the Croisette has now landed U.S. distribution.
Read More »The SXSW Film Festival has shuttered its doors for another year, and now news reaches us that the winner of this year's Best Narrative Feature award has found a distributor, as did two other festival favorites from Park City and TIFF.
Read More »Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Alison Klayman's documentary "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry." The film just finished screening in the Official Selection in the Berlinale Special at Berlinale and world premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. The d...
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