New Zealand Film, which shares sales duties with Arclight,has enjoyed strong sales on vampire thriller Perfect Creature

The film by writer-director Glenn Standring was sold toMagna Pacific for Austria and New Zealand, Jiants for Thailand, Festive Films forSingapore and Sunny Film for Malaysia.

Perfect Creaturestars Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows, Stuart Wilson and Scott Wills andexplores a retro-futuristic world where vampires and humans co-exist.

Shot in New Zealand, the film is now in post-production. Anofficial UK-New Zealand co-production, the film was produced by Tim Sanderswith Roc Media's Russel Fischer and Haneet Vaswani and Spice Factory's MichaelCowan and Jason Piette. It was financed by the New Zealand Film ProductionFund, the New Zealand Film Commission, Movision, Roc Media and the Royal Bankof Scotland.

'Magna recognised the incredible potential this filmoffers the market at a very early stage. They have ambitious plans for thefilm's release in both Australia and New Zealand,' said Kathleen Drumm,Head of Sales & Marketing at NZ Film.