EXCLUSIVE: T A P E Collective has picked up Canadian filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming’s Can I Get A Witness? for UK-Ireland release.
The film will be released theatrically on September 19, marking the film’s UK premiere, after playing last year at Toronto film festival and Tallinn Black Nights. New York-based Visit Films represents sales.
The eco-thriller is set in the not-too-distant future. Climate change is mitigated, global poverty is eradicated, and all species on the planet can live in relative peace and equality. The world has rejected consumption and technology with smaller carbon footprints. All this is made possible because the world came to an agreement and everyone is committed to a new global expiry date – human life will end at age 50. But things to prove to not quite be so straightforward.
Fleming, Raymond Massey and Ruth Vincent produce.
Rising stars Keira Jang and Joel Oulette star alongside Oh, with Oh also an executive producer on the film.
“One of the first films we showed at a T A P E Collective event was Ann Marie Fleming’s Window Horses, which we loved for its poetry, animation and storytelling,” said Isra Al Kassi, co-founder of UK programming collective and distributor T A P E, which specialises in films with a focus on representation, identity and heritage. “We are thrilled now to distribute Can I Get A Witness?, a powerfully emotional and deeply relevant story that tells an urgent story of our time in a beautifully poetic and kind way.”
“Can I Get A Witness? is a post-industrial movie where the apocalypse never happened,” added Fleming. ”Like a live-action Miyazaki, this is a pastoral take on the climate crisis with a cottagecore aesthetic. It’s an environmental film with a gentle, yet dark humour.”
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