‘Everybody To Kenmure Street’ North American sale leads trio of Sundance deals

Icarus Films has picked up North American rights to the British documentary Everybody To Kenmure Street, one of three Sundance deals announced on Thursday.

Felipe Bustos Sierra’s film opened Glasgow Film Festival on Wednesday night (February 25) and recounts how a diverse Glasgow neighbourhood community united to resist the arrest of a resident.

The film features Emma Thompson who served as executive producer. Icarus negotiated the deal with The Party Film Sales. Everybody To Kenmure Street premiered in Sundance last month when it was awarded the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance.

Independent Film Company picked up US rights to Macon Blair’s Sundance Premieres debut The Shitheads from WME Independent. The road trip comedy stars Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. and the company plans a summer theatrical release.

Fledgling distributor Sumerian Pictures acquired North American rights to Louis Paxton’s Scottish comedy The Incomer. The film premiered in Sundance’s Next section where it won the Innovator Award and tells of the arrival of a council worker that upends the world of two siblings on a remote island. Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, and Grant O’Rourke star.

Sumerian plans a nationwide theatrical release after brokering the deal with CAA Film Finance, Verve Ventures, and Charades. Earlier this month it acquired Berlinale Competition and Sundance world premiere Josephine.

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