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EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights to Rock Bottom Riser, a documentary that received a Special Mention from the Encounters jury at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival where it premiered earlier this month. It’s the first film by Fern Silva, who wrote, directed, and produced the…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has secured the North American distribution rights to Expedition Content, a documentary that premiered in the Forum section at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival and had its U.S. debut as part of Film at Lincoln Center's Art of the Real. Directed by Ernst Karel and Veronika…

Cinema Guild has taken U.S. rights to Introduction, Hong Sangsoo's latest feature that was selected in this year's competition program at the Berlin International Film Festival. The movie, Hong Sangsoo's 25th as a director, follows Youngho (Shin Seokho): he goes to see his father who is tending to a famous patient; he…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the Lynne Sachs-directed documentary Film About a Father Who, which made its world premiere in January as the opening night film at the Slamdance Film Festival. The film is set to open at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image on January 15, 2021…

EXCLUSIVE:  Cinema Guild has picked up U.S. distribution rights to Jia Zhangke’s documentary Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue. The Chinese film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February and made its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival earlier this fall. Cinema Guild is eyeing a release for early…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights to Matías Piñeiro's Isabella which won a special jury mention in the Encounters section at the 70th Berlinale earlier this year. A 2021 theatrical release is being planned. Isabella follows Mariel (María Villar) who wants to play the role of…

Cinema Guild has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the Hong Sangsoo comedy Yourself and Yours, which will open on June 5 with digital and home video releases set for later this year. The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016 and follows Youngsoo (Kim Joohyuk), who learns that his…

Gravitas Ventures has set a VOD/digital release for Sean McEwen’s debut feature Braking For Whales on April 24. The Narrator Entertainment and Charlie Baby Productions film stars Tammin Sursok (Pretty Little Liars), Tom Felton (Harry Potter franchise), Wendi McLendon-Covey (The Goldbergs), David Koechner (Anchorman: Th…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired all U.S. distribution rights for Mehrdad Oskouei's documentary Sunless Shadows, which made its world premiere as the opening night film at IDFA where it won the festival's Best Directing prize. The film is set to make its U.S. Premiere on February 6 in New York as part of MoMA's…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired the U.S. rights to the Éric Baudelaire-directed Un Film Dramatique. The film will be released theatrically in the U.S. in 2020. A refreshing approach to documentary filmmaking, Un Film Dramatique made its premiere at the Locarno Film Festival and went on to the Toronto Film…

EXCLUSIVE: Another Toronto Film Festival title has found distribution. Cinema Guild acquired U.S. distribution rights for the Kazik Radwanski-directed Anne at 13,000 ft. The film received an honorable mention from the Platform Prize jury at Toronto in September. The picture will continue to play festivals before…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Hale County This Morning, This Evening, the Sundance-winning documentary from director and photographer RaMell Ross. The indie distributor is planning a 2018 theatrical release for the pic, which won a Special Jury Award for creative vision in Park City…