EXCLUSIVE: Mance Media has acquired worldwide rights to the adult fairy tale from writer-director F C Rabbath.

Mance has set a December 12 theatrical release and will introduce the film to buyers at the AFM in November.

Scarlet’s Witch follows a lonely young girl who befriends a witch in a forest and years later turns to the sorceress for magical assistance when another girl encroaches on her relationship with a boy.

The cast includes Avery Pohl, Emily Pearse, Marcy Palmer and​ Julie Moss.