Exclusive: Ahead of its world premiere at SXSW on Saturday (March 9), feature doc Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics has found an international distributor in the UK’s Rainmaker Content.
The 90-minute film from Canada’s White Pine Pictures investigates the global addiction to plastic and the growing threat of microplastics to human health. The film is an official selection of the SXSW Festival 2024 Documentary Spotlight.
Rainmaker has bagged worldwide sales rights. Two of its key execs, Greg Phillips and Vicky Ryan, have worked with White Pine execs for almost 20 years. While at Kew Media Distribution (Kmd) and Content Media, they represented White Pine titles such as hard-driving TV drama series The Border; feature doc Toxic Beauty; and Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word is Power.
Plastic People has been positioned as the follow-up film to Toxic Beauty.
The synopsis for Plastic People notes that...
The 90-minute film from Canada’s White Pine Pictures investigates the global addiction to plastic and the growing threat of microplastics to human health. The film is an official selection of the SXSW Festival 2024 Documentary Spotlight.
Rainmaker has bagged worldwide sales rights. Two of its key execs, Greg Phillips and Vicky Ryan, have worked with White Pine execs for almost 20 years. While at Kew Media Distribution (Kmd) and Content Media, they represented White Pine titles such as hard-driving TV drama series The Border; feature doc Toxic Beauty; and Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word is Power.
Plastic People has been positioned as the follow-up film to Toxic Beauty.
The synopsis for Plastic People notes that...
- 3/7/2024
- by Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
In one of its biggest plays to date, Rainmaker Content, the London-based distributor founded last June by former Kew Media Distribution execs, has acquired international rights to “The Bone Season,” an eight-hour epic thriller series based on Samantha Shannon’s international bestsellers.
Designed as a series franchise – Shannon’s book series now runs to four novels with another three planned – “The Bone Season” is set up at London’s Little Hat Productions.
Well-known for her work as head of production at Bad Penny Prods., Little Hat founder Harriet Hammond will produce the adaptation. “The Bone Season” is executive produced by Hammond and Victor Glynn at Gcb Films.
A potentially high-end production – folding a Gothic fantasy world into a dystopian alternative London, which mixes Victorian and futuristic detail – “The Bone Season’s” cast and crew will begin to be announced in the coming weeks with agencies currently attaching talent, Rainmaker and...
Designed as a series franchise – Shannon’s book series now runs to four novels with another three planned – “The Bone Season” is set up at London’s Little Hat Productions.
Well-known for her work as head of production at Bad Penny Prods., Little Hat founder Harriet Hammond will produce the adaptation. “The Bone Season” is executive produced by Hammond and Victor Glynn at Gcb Films.
A potentially high-end production – folding a Gothic fantasy world into a dystopian alternative London, which mixes Victorian and futuristic detail – “The Bone Season’s” cast and crew will begin to be announced in the coming weeks with agencies currently attaching talent, Rainmaker and...
- 5/19/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: International TV sales chiefs have said MipTV’s waning power has been compounded by the coronavirus pandemic, which has accelerated the switch to year-round online sales activity and increased the emphasis on local and genre-specific events.
Speaking to Deadline ahead of the virtual MipTV next week, studio bosses acknowledged the continued importance of global markets, but questioned if there is space for two annual showpiece gatherings in Cannes. In response, MipTV organizer Reed Midem said it is always talking to delegates about designing markets to meet industry needs.
The decline of MipTV was in evidence last year, even before the pandemic swept the globe. Amid the increasing importance of local events, such as the London Screenings, studios including Fremantle, Banijay, and ITV Studios pulled out of exhibiting at MipTV in 2020. Major U.S. players like Disney have also long skirted MipTV due to its proximity to the LA Screenings.
Speaking to Deadline ahead of the virtual MipTV next week, studio bosses acknowledged the continued importance of global markets, but questioned if there is space for two annual showpiece gatherings in Cannes. In response, MipTV organizer Reed Midem said it is always talking to delegates about designing markets to meet industry needs.
The decline of MipTV was in evidence last year, even before the pandemic swept the globe. Amid the increasing importance of local events, such as the London Screenings, studios including Fremantle, Banijay, and ITV Studios pulled out of exhibiting at MipTV in 2020. Major U.S. players like Disney have also long skirted MipTV due to its proximity to the LA Screenings.
- 4/9/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Pedro Almodovar’s “The Human Voice” sets U.K. release; Rainmaker hires; new outfit Gag Reflex Productions launched; Kidscreen Summit goes online; and Goldfinch and Stakhanov strike first look deal.
Pathé has set a Nov. 7 U.K. release date for Pedro Almodovar‘s short film “The Human Voice,” starring Tilda Swinton. The film will be launched at a special event screening in cinemas across the U.K. and will be followed by a pre-recorded Q&a with Almodovar and Swinton.
The film, Almodovar’s English-language debut, was shot over nine days in Madrid in July and premiered to critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival. It is a re-imagination of Jean Cocteau’s short play for an era in which isolation has become a way of life. Tilda Swinton’s unnamed woman paces and panics in a Technicolor apartment where décor offers a window into her state of mind.
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Pathé has set a Nov. 7 U.K. release date for Pedro Almodovar‘s short film “The Human Voice,” starring Tilda Swinton. The film will be launched at a special event screening in cinemas across the U.K. and will be followed by a pre-recorded Q&a with Almodovar and Swinton.
The film, Almodovar’s English-language debut, was shot over nine days in Madrid in July and premiered to critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival. It is a re-imagination of Jean Cocteau’s short play for an era in which isolation has become a way of life. Tilda Swinton’s unnamed woman paces and panics in a Technicolor apartment where décor offers a window into her state of mind.
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Rainmaker Content,...
- 10/15/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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