First Run takes US rights to Mugabe and the White African

First Run Features has taken on US rights to BAFTA-nominated documentary Mugabe and the White African and plans a July 23 theatrical launch.

HanWay handles sales, and has previously sold to France’s Pretty Pictures.

After a British theatrical run, the film will have its UK TV debut on May 18 through Channel 4’s True Stories strand.

The film is an Arturi production in association with Explore Films, Film Agency for Wales with the Welsh Arts Lottery Fund and Molinare Productions. Directors are Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson. Producers are David Pearson and Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock.

The film is about a farming family in Zimbabwe.

Arturi’s current slate also includes Richard Parry’s siege thriller Hollow Point (with Michael Wearing) and supernatural thriller The Hum, which Morgan Hemlock will coproduce with Pierre Evan of Canada’s Item 7.