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Additional deals closed on Luc Picard’s action crime drama ’Confessions Of A Hitman’.

Montreal-based Sphere Films, formerly WaZabi Films, has closed the US and key territories on Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ feature directorial debut It Is In Us All, which won a special jury prize at SXSW earlier this year, and Confessions Of A Hitman.

It Is In Us All, financed by Screen Ireland and starring Cosmo Jarvis, Campbell-Hughes, Claes Bang and newcomer Rhys Mannion, has gone to Blue Finch Film Releasing in the UK, Pivot Pictures in Australia and New Zealand and Wolfe Releasing in the US.

The film won...

Exclusive: Wolfe Releasing has acquired North American rights to Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ first narrative feature, It Is In Us All, in which she stars alongside Cosmo Jarvis (Peaky Blinders), Claes Bang (The Northman) and newcomer Rhys Mannion, slating it for release in theaters and on digital this fall.

The thriller picked up from Sphere Films centers on Hamish (Jarvis), who is forced to confront his self-destructive core when a violent car crash involving precocious teenager, Evan (Mannion), challenges him to face his truth. It made its world premiere at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival, there winning a Special Jury Prize for Extraordinary Cinematic Vision. Emma Foley and Tamryn Reinecke of Pale Rebel Productions produced the pic, with Conor Barry of Savage Productions exec producing.

“It Is In Us All embraces a setting that is without geography. It was integral for me that this story sit in the universal and the ambiguous,” said Campbell-Hughes.

Sales talks to commence with EFM buyers.

Montreal-based WaZabi Films has come on board to represent worldwide sales on Antonia Campbell-Hughes’s SXSW premiere It Is In Us All and will start talks with EFM buyers.

Campbell-Hughes wrote and also has a role in the Irish film starring Cosmo Jarvis from Peaky Blinders and The Evening Hour about a formidable man who cares for nothing and is forced to confront his self-destructive nature when a violent car crash involving a sexually charged boy challenges him to face his truth.

Claes Bang (The Square) and newcomer Rhys Mannion round out the...

The film is the directorial debut of playwright Philip Doherty.

Irish dark comedy Redemption Of A Rogue has secured distribution deals for the US and Australia and New Zealand.

Limelight Distribution has acquired the film for Australia and New Zealand, with a theatrical release in the works for later this year, while Gravitas Ventures has picked it up for an immediate VoD release on major platforms in the US.

The debut feature of playwright Philip Doherty, the film centres on a man stuck in a Groundhog Day­-like purgatory, who embarks on a sacrificial journey to rid himself of his...

Despite tier changes during the shoot, the film shot in October and November.

UK actor-filmmaker Antonia Campbell-Hughes could hardly have picked a trickier time to make her feature directorial debut.

It Is In Us All shot in rural Ireland for four and half weeks in October and November 2020 amid ever-tightening Covid-19 restrictions, last-minute cast changes and ongoing, raging storms.

“Every evening after shooting there were conference calls with Screen Ireland about whether we could continue,” Campbell-Hughes recalls of the conversations with the film’s backer. “It was pretty insane, all of the time.”

It Is In Us All is about a Londoner,...

The film is fully-funded through Screen Ireland’s Pov scheme.

Jim Sturgess will lead the cast of Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ directorial debut It Is In Us All, which will begin shooting in Ireland in July.

The film has been fully funded through the inaugural edition of Screen Ireland’s female-focused Pov scheme.

Conor Barry (The Hole In The Ground), Emma Foley and Tamryn Reinecke will produce for Savage Productions.

One Day star Sturgess plays Hamish, a Londoner who returns to his ancestral homeland of Donegal, Ireland and is drawn in by a teenage boy who almost kills him in a car crash.