Sundance Selects has picked up North American rights from UTA Independent Film Group to Kat Candler’s recent Sundance world premiere starring young breakout Josh Wiggins.

Hellion will open later this year theatrically and on VOD and also stars Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis.

Candler wrote the screenplay about a wild child separated from his younger brother who resolves to reunite with his sibling and win a local motocross championship.

Kelly Williams and Jonathan Duffy produced.

  • Netflix has acquired North American rights to Malcolm Clarke’s short film The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life, based on the life of Alice Herz Sommer, the acclaimed pianist and world’s oldest known Holocaust survivor who died aged 110 in the UK this week (23). The Oscar-nominated 38-minute film will premiere on Netflix on April 1.