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Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American distribution rights to At the Ready, the documentary from Maisie Crow that follows three El Paso teenagers who embark on careers in law enforcement as the debates surrounding immigration and police reform in America reach fever pitches. The doc will be released in theaters and on digital platforms October 22.

Crow’s film focuses on students at El Paso’s Horizon High School, 10 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, who are part of a criminal justice club, which includes mock-ups of drug raids and active-shooter takedowns as they eye careers with the Border Patrol and in policing and customs enforcement. They soon discover their choices may clash with the values and people they hold most dear.

Crow, Hillary Pierce and Abbie Perrault are producing. Gravitas previously released Pierce’s immigration doc The River and the Wall.

Gravitas’ Huggins and Tony Piantedosi negotiated the deal...

The new partners have several films in the pipeline, including €9m animated feature Miss Moxy,

Legendary Dutch producer Burny Bos, founder of BosBros, and Petra Goedings, CEO of Phanta Vision, have revealed details of their new production partnership. Under their alliance, all of Bos’ new films and TV projects will now be made through the Phanta group.

Over the last 30 years, since BosBros was founded in 1989, the company has overseen a string of box-office hits in the family film genre, including Miss Minoes, Winky’s Horse and Alfie, The Little Werewolf. The idea behind the collaboration is to allow Bos...

Elbert van Strien project stars Thekla Reuten.

Peter Mullan, Emun Elliott, Rebecca Front (The Thick Of It) and veteran character actor Bill Paterson (The Man Who Invented Christmas) have joined Dutch director Elbert van Strien’s Scottish-set psychological thriller Marionette.

As previously announced, Dutch actress Thekla Reuten (Red Sparrow) stars in the film, which has just started principal photography in Luxembourg.

Van Strien co-scripted the project alongside Ben Hopkins. The film is set in Scotland and will be shot on location in Aberdeenshire and Luxembourg. Shooting on the €5m co-production is forecast to wrap in early December and the film...

Dutch-Luxembourg-uk coproduction directed by Elbert van Strien.

Red Sparrow actor Thekla Reuten has been confirmed as the lead in Marionette, a high concept psychological thriller from Dutch director Elbert van Strien, due to shoot in Scotland later this year.

Reuten will play child psychiatrist Marianne, a grieving woman who moves to Scotland to start a new life after the tragic death of her husband. She starts treating a disturbed 10-year-old boy who draws pictures of terrible events and claims he can control her future.

The Euros 5m project, put together as a Netherlands-Luxembourg-uk co-production, is written by van Strien and...

Sherlock and Doctor Who director among filmmakers with projects at Amsterdam forum which is a partnership between the Cannes Marché and Montreal’s Fantasia.

A total of 12 projects will participate in the inaugural Frontières Finance & Packaging Forum, set to take place February 16-18 in Amsterdam.

Initiated as part of the recent partnership between Fantasia International Film Festival and the Cannes Marché du Film, the event is an offshot of the Frontières International Co-Production Market (which takes place at Montreal’s Fantasia festival in July).

The forum will see industry experts assessing the dozen genre projects from a packaging perspective, analysing finance, marketing and distribution strategies.

Among the selected projects is a feature from Sherlock and Doctor Who director Rachel Talalay, House Of Stairs, and works from producers including Jonathan Bronfman (The Witch), Katie Holly (Love And Friendship) and Phyllis Laing (The Haunting In Connecticut).

The projects originate from eight different countries: Canada, France, Ireland...