Industry veteran Dov Kornits has launched Australian distribution outfit Screen Inc and unveiled a raft of titles including Cannes Critics’ Week award-winner Olga.
Sydney-based Kornits sold his interest in his former distribution company Pivot Pictures to co-owner Lou Balletti before opening Screen Inc’s doors. He is also publisher of Australian film magazine Filmink and a former head of theatrical for speciality distributor Umbrella Entertainment.
Initial acquisitions include Elie Grappe’s Olga, the gymnastics-themed Swiss drama that won the screenplay award at Cannes Critics’ Week in 2021, and Andrew Ryan’s The Florist, a US satire set in Los Angeles.
The first of a three-film release of titles this month will start with the November 9 opening of Australian drama The Land, the directorial debut of Swiss-born photographer Ingvar Kenne. It stars Steve Rodgers and Cameron Stewart, who both wrote the script, and Anna Lise Phillips.
Further Australian films on Screen Inc’s slate include Jesse Ahern and Joanne Samuel’s coming-of-age dance drama The Red Shoes: Next Step; Slovenian-Australian filmmaker Sara Kern’s Moja Vesna, which premiered in the Generation strand of this year’s Berlinale; Clive Fleury’s Sons of Summer, starring Temuera Morrison and Isabel Lucas; Jonathan Ogilvie’s political thriller Lone Wolf; and Ted McDonnell’s Noyce – The Not So Quiet Australian, a documentary about filmmaker Phillip Noyce.
Screen Inc also has a deal in place with prolific Queensland-based producer Steve Jaggi for all rights except theatrical.
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