EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group (HFG) will commence worldwide sales in Berlin on Silver Lining Media Group’s supernatural thriller The Culling.

Production wrapped recently in Louisiana on the story of college friends who encounter dark forces at a remote farmhouse.

Rustam Branaman wrote and directed The Culling, which stars Jeremy Sumpter, Elizabeth Di Prinzio, Brett Davern, Linsey Godfrey, Chris Coy, Harley Graham,Virginia Williams and Johnathon Schaech.

New Orleans-based genre specialist Silver Lining Media Group financed the film in conjunction with Gold Star Films and Dro Entertainment.

Silver Lining Media Group founder and president Colin Bates produced with Craig Chapman and Peter Fruchtman, while Hubert Gibbs, Joseph Tufaro, James Otis, Gerald Fruchtman and Gary Safady of Safady Entertainment served as executive producers.

HFG’s sales roster includes teen comedy Barely Lethal, as well as Inappropriate Comedy and The Baytown Outlaws with Eva Longoria and Billy Bob Thornton. Phase 4 Films plans an early 2013 North American theatrical release on Baytown.