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EXCLUSIVE: New York-based sales company Visit Films has acquired world right to the hybrid docufiction feature Starring Jerry As Himself, which will debut at Slamdance later this month. The pic follows Jerry Hsu, a retired Taiwanese immigrant living in Florida. One day, he gets an urgent call from…

EXCLUSIVE: The New York-based Visit Films has acquired world rights excluding Canada to the video store dramedy I Like Movies, which will debut as part of the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was written and directed by first-time filmmaker Chandler Levack who negotiated the…

EXCLUSIVE: Visit Films has boarded writer-director Robert Machoian's The Integrity Of Joseph Chambers and will be shopping the project to buyers in Cannes next week. The film is set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June but buyers on the Croisette will be given a "sneak peek" of the title, according to…

EXCLUSIVE: Visit Films has boarded worldwide sales rights to Ricky D'Ambrose's new film The Cathedral, which will get its U.S. premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. In The Cathedral, which was part of the Biennale College Cinema at the Venice Film Festival, an unseen narrator unfolds the constellation of familial…

EXCLUSIVE: Visit Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to Down With The King starring Grammy-nominated rapper Freddie Gibbs. The film, produced by Breaker Studios, will have its world premiere in the ACID lineup which runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. In his feature debut, Gibbs plays Mercury Maxwell aka…

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. sales and distribution firm Visit Films has hired Jake Riley-Hunte, previously International Sales Manager at Bankside Films, as its new Director of Acquisitions. Based in London, Riley-Hunte will acquire films for the company's sales slate across all territories and for Visit's sister distribution…

EXCLUSIVE: Visit Films has licensed U.S. rights for drama Hearts And Bones to Gravitas Ventures. The Toronto 2019 world premiere stars Hugo Weaving (The Lord Of The Rings) as Dan, a renowned war photographer struggling with PTSD, who forms an unexpected bond with Sebastian, a Sudanese refugee, until one of his…

EXCLUSIVE: Sales firm Visit Films has boarded well-received Sundance movie Dinner In America. Visit has taken world rights excluding U.S. and Canada for the grungy rom-com, which had its world premiere in Sundance’s U.S. Competition section. Visit will be screening the film in the market at the Berlinale. Set in a…