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Joe Dietsch and Louie Gibson direct the thriller about a family in the American wilderness.

Film Mode Entertainment has come on board to handle worldwide rights (excluding North America) to Manifest West and is giving the thriller its first market screenings at this week’s AFM.

Written and directed by Joe Dietsch and Louie Gibson, who previously teamed to make horror Western Happy Hunting, Manifest West centres on a seemingly normal family that moves into the North American wilderness to escape the pressures of society but cannot escape its own secrets.

Lexy Kolker, Annet Mahendru, Milo Gibson, Michael Cudlitz and Tim Heidecker star,...

Annet Mahendru, who currently stars in AMC’s The Walking Dead spinoff World Beyond, and Peter Vack are set to star in Grow, a horror indie written and directed by Brian Gottlieb. It centers on a man (Vack) who is imprisoned and impregnated by a group of cult members with an archaic belief system. It is an examination of gender, flipping conventional stereotypes. Mahendru will play twins Kitty and Locasta Larkin. Gottlieb, Bryson Pintard and Michael Tipps are producing while Louie Gibson will serve as executive producers. Mahendru is repped by Bohemia Group, Paradigm and Nelson Davis. Vack is repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment.

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Matt Medrano has joined Anna Schafer in Whose Child, an indie film that is being directed by Roxy Shih. The plot follows a woman (Schafer) working in public relations at a children’s hospital who gets her life turned around when she...