Oscilloscope has acquired worldwide rights from Fire Trial Films to Ryan Stevens Harris’s Moon Garden and has begun talks with international buyers at the AFM.
The company plans a traditional theatrical release in 2023 on the story of a five-year-old girl from a troubled home who falls into a coma after an accident at home and enters a fantastical industrial wonderland on her journey back to consciousness.
Director Ryan Stevens Harris shot Moon Garden on expired 35mm film stock with vintage lenses, and used stop-motion animation, practical effects, and miniatures. The cast includes Haven Lee Harris, Augie Duke, and Brionne Davis.
O-Scope’s Dan Berger said, “Moon Garden is a sight to behold. A long-gestating labour of love, Ryan’s film has all the pomp of a $100m studio sci-fi epic, but a tactileness that studios could never achieve. You can feel the sweat poured into every frame to render this deeply touching, deeply strange, and deeply resonant film that is clearly the work of a visionary. We can’t wait to bring this to audiences far and wide.”
Harris added, “We knew we needed a partner who embraced all the film’s aspects and would put as much care into its release as we did into production. Oscilloscope is the perfect partner and we couldn’t be happier.”
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