Mongrel Media has acquired Canadian rights to Steve Hoover’s Sundance 2013 US Documentary Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner Blood Brother.

The film will go out on digital and DVD through Cinedigm and ITVS has acquired broadcast rights for Independent Lens.

Proceeds from the film have been designated to support the work of the orphanage in Tamil Nadu as seen in the film.

Blood Brother centres on an American graphic designer who stumbled upon an HIV orphanage in India and left all that he had to work with the children.

All distribution deals were negotiated on behalf of the filmmakers by

Kevin Iwashina and Abby Davis of Preferred Content and Liesl Copland and Deborah McIntosh of WME Global negotiated all the distribution deals on behalf of the filmmakers.

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