EXCLUSIVE: UK filmmaker Harry Lighton’s Un Certain Regard title Pillion has sold to major territories including to Memento for France for Cornerstone Films.
Deals have also been done for Canada (Photon), Spain (Madfer), Australia-New Zealand (Rialto), Baltics and Ukraine (Ad Astra) and Greece (Cinobo).
A24 will release in the US, Picturehouse in the UK and September Films in Benelux.
Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård star in the film about a timid man who is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.
The film is produced by Element Pictures’ Emma Norton, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe with Lee Groombridge, with financing from BBC Film and BFI, in association with Fremantle, Picturehouse Entertainment and September Film.
The screenplay was developed with BBC Film and is based on Adam Mars-Jones’ novel Box Hill.
Executive producers are BBC Film’s Eva Yates, Louise Ortega for the BFI, Clare Binns for Picturehouse, September Film’s Pim Hermeling, Cornerstone’s Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder, Fremantle’s Christian Vesper and Skarsgård.
Lighton, a Screen Star of Tomorrow 2018, has previously made the Bafta and Bifa-nominated Sundance 2018 premiere short Wren Boys.
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