IFC Films has acquired North American rights to The Almond And The Seahorse starring Rebel Wilson in her first dramatic role ahead of the world premiere at Zurich Film Festival.
Bafta-winning Celyn Jones (Six Minutes To Midnight, The Vanishing, Set Fire To The Stars) and Tom Stern directed the film from a screenplay by Jones and award-winning playwright Kaite O’Reilly, based on her theatre production of the same name.
The story deals with two couples where one partner has survived Traumatic Brain Injury. Trine Dyrholm plays Gwen, who has not recognised herself or her partner, portrayed by Charlotte Gainsbourg, since 1999. Meanwhile Joe, played by Jones’s past is coming undone and his partner Sarah (Wilson) fears she will be forgotten.
IFC Films will release theatrically and on demand on December 16. Andy Evans, Alex Ashworth and Sean Marley produced for Mad As Birds, and Alison Brister for REP Productions SF.
REP Productions SF financed alongside Head Gear, Picnik Entertainment, Creative Wales and Ffilm Cymru Wales, with funding from the National Lottery. Executive producers include Laure Vaysse for Harcourt Capital, Bizzy Day and Pauline Burt for Ffilm Cymru Wales Phil Hunt, Compton Ross for Head Gear, Nicola Pearcey for Picnik Entertainment Ltd, with Stephen Kelliher and Yana Georgieva for Bankside Films and Eddie Izzard.
IFC Films acquisitions manager Adam Koehler negotiated the deal with WME Independent and Bankside Films on behalf of the filmmakers.
Separately, Sony Pictures Classics has picked up worldwide rights to Sean Mullin’s It Ain’t Over, a documentary about Yogi Berra, the larger-than-life baseball player whose off-field antics often overshadowed his sporting prowess. The film premiered at Tribeca Festival this year. Cinetic Media represented the filmmakers.
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