EXCLUSIVE: Protagonist Pictures has boarded Canadian director Stephen Campanelli’s psychological thriller The Exiled, starring Alessandro Nivola, whose credits include The Brutalist and Love Story, and unveiled a first-look picture.
Protagonist is launching sales in Cannes on the film, which has wrapped in Canada and Slovakia.
Charlie Tahan and Alyssa Wapanatâhk also star in the film, which is set in 1922 on a remote lighthouse island off the stormy British Columbia coast. It focuses on the tumultuous relationship between two men who are pitted against one another when a shipwreck delivers a sole survivor.
Producers are Trish Dolman, Christine Haebler and Steven Thibault for Canada’s Screen Siren Pictures, with Jan Kallista and Jana Garajová for Slovakia’s Film Kolektiv. Elevation Pictures is attached to distribute the film in Canada with financing from Orogen.
The thriller is written and executive produced by Graeme Manson, whose credits include Snowpiercer and Orphan Black.
Canadian Campanelli’s credits as director include 2017 Toronto Film Festival premiere Indian Horse. Through his work as a camera operator, he also has credits on Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and his upcoming Wild Horse Nine.
Executive producers include Omar Chalabi and Michael O’Leary from Elevation Pictures, Blair Ward, Anders Erdén, Lauren Case, Del Mondor from Orogen Entertainment, and Dave Bishop, George Hamilton and James Pugh from Protagonist Pictures.
Backers include Telefilm Canada, Creative BC, Elevation Pictures, ITA Film, Hollywood Suite, the Canada Media Fund, the Harold Greenberg Fund, Film Incentive BC, the government of Canada, and the government of the Slovak Republic, and produced in association with Bell Media and CBC Films.
“As Vancouver-based producers, we are thrilled to bring Graeme Manson’s iconic West Coast script to life,” said Dolman, producer and president, Screen Siren Pictures. “We have assembled an amazing, talented cast and crew in Bratislava and Canada to tell this extraordinary story,” added producer Haebler.
“We’re excited to introduce The Exiled to our international partners in Cannes,” said Bishop, CEO of Protagonist Pictures. “With outstanding performances from Alessandro Nivola, Charlie Tahan and Alyssa Wapanatâhk, the film delivers a tense, character-driven experience set against a striking and evocative backdrop. It’s exactly the kind of bold, elevated genre storytelling that continues to resonate with global audiences, and we’re confident it will be a standout in the market.”
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