EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based Media Move has acquired international rights to Dutch director Thom Lunshof’s dystopian survival thriller First Zone.
First Zone made its world premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival and now plays at this month’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
The film is set in a future-flooded Netherlands, where a woman living in a wind turbine is torn from her desolate home by a violent storm.
Lunshof’s feature debut, First Zone stars Hadewych Minis and Violet Braeckman, one of this year’s European Shooting Stars.
First Zone is produced by Marrit Greidanus for Makaki Productions and received support from Screen Talent NL and the Netherlands Film Fund (NFF).
The film is also screening in the international competition at the Cork International Film Festival in Ireland, and at the Les Arcs Film Festival in December.
“As a specialist in sales of genre cinema, I’m always on the lookout,” said Media Move’s Justyna Koronkiewicz. “And while we’ve been spoiled by the abundance of horror, my personal favourites are still hard to come by: survival thrillers. I absolutely loved the density and darkness of the film and how a post-apocalyptic tale can feel so contemporary. The strength of the female lead sealed the deal for me. And that all from a debutant.”
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