EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films heads to Cannes with a sales slate of completed titles including upcoming Tribeca Festival world premiere Our Hero, Balthazar, and SXSW selections The Dutchman, Fantasy Life, Baby Doe, and Brother Verses Brother.
Oscar Boyson’s satire Our Hero, Balthazar will screen privately for buyers ahead of its Tribeca slot and follows a wealthy New York teenager who posts on social media calling for stricter gun control in the hopes that his activist-minded crush will notice. When an online troll comments on his video and messages Balthazar, he becomes convinced that he is communicating with a potential mass shooter and travels to Texas to confront him.
Jaeden Martell, Asa Butterfield, Chris Bauer, Jennifer Ehle, Anna Baryshnikov, Noah Centineo, and Becky Ann Baker star.
Thriller The Dutchman from Andre Gaines premiered in SXSW and centres on a successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, who gets drawn into a psychological game of cat-and-mouse with a mysterious white woman on the subway.
André Holland from Moonlight stars alongside Kate Mara, Zazie Beetz, Aldis Hodge, and Stephen McKinley Henderson.
Fantasy Life, written and directed by Matthew Shear stars Amanda Peet, Shear, and Alessandro Nivola and will screen in the market. The comedy won the SXSW Narrative Feature Audience Award and Special Jury Award for Performance and follows a thirty-something paralegal in New York who, after getting laid off, starts babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters and falls for their mother, an actress in a rocky marriage.
Jessica Earnshaw’s True crime documentary and SXSW selection Baby Doe follows a church-going mother of three in Ohio who is arrested on new evidence for murder, decades after abandoning a child she claims was stillborn.
Brother Verses Brother will also screen in the market following its SXSW premiere. Ari Gold’s one-shot music-driven comedic drama has Francis Ford Coppola among the executive producer ranks and follows twin brothers, one excited by the prospect of romance and the other looking for his place in the world, as they go on a musical odyssey through the streets of San Francisco while searching for their missing father. The cast includes Ethan Gold, Lara Louise, and Brian Bell of US indie rockers Weezer.
Visit’s market screening schedule includes 2024 TIFF action thriller 40 Acres starring Danielle Deadwyler and directed by R.T. Thorne. Magnolia Pictures will distribute in the US in July and Mongrel Media will release in Canada, and the film recently received its US premiere at SXSW.
Kampe and his team continue sales on Sundance contemporary drama Luz directed by Flora Lau, Slamdance dark comedy Lockjaw directed by Sabrina Greco, SSIF erotic crime thriller Surfacing from Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato, TIFF sci-fi drama Can I Get A Witness? from Ann Marie Fleming, and Telluride premiere The Easy Kind directed by Katy Chevigny.
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