Drafthouse Films has picked up North American rights to Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math’s documentary The Final Member, while in a separate deal CNN Films has acquired US broadcast rights to Documented.

The Final Member has screened at HotDocs, SilverDocs, Fantastic Fest and Doc NYC and centres on an Icelandic museum dedicated to the penis.

Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math mark their feature directorial debuts. Drafthouse Films brokered the deal with The Film Sales Company and plans a platform theatrical, VOD and partnered digital release with VHX in 2014.

CNN Films has acquired US broadcast rights to the immigration documentary Documented, about the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philippines-born journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.

The film will premiere on CNN in the second quarter of 2014 as a CNN Films broadcast following its international debut at the IDFA and theatrical distribution in the US.

Vargas wrote and directed the film about his personal immigration story. Sean Parker, Matthew Hiltzik, Scott Budnick and Liz Simons are on board as executive producers.

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