West Coast distribution company Red Sky Entertainment has signed a wide-ranging international sales and distribution deal with l.a.’s Myriad Pictures.

Myriad will handle international sales for Red Sky while Vancouver-based Red Sky will distribute films Myriad has acquired in Canada.

As part of the joint venture agreement, Myriad will act as Red Sky’s u.s. rep and assist in the acquisition of product.

Myriad president and former Village Roadshow exec Kirk D’Amico will kick off the relationship by handling international sales at the upcoming London screening and mifed for producer/director John Hazlett’s Bad Money, starring Graham Greene. Red Sky will distribute Bad Money in Canada.

International sales for Clement Virgo’s The Planet of Junior Brown may also be handled by Myriad under the agreement.

The first Canadian Myriad release for Red Sky will be the German box-office champion Knockin on Heaven’s Door, which has grossed over $20 million in Deutchland.

D’Amico reportedly played a pivotal role in negotiating Red Sky’s output deal with New York’s Stratosphere Entertainment.

In other news, Red Sky is handling Canadian distribution of Shegalla, the latest independent feature from North Vancouver-based Ranfilm Productions, which began principal photography Sept. 21. Lions Gate Films International will handle international sales.

A $4-million feature shot in Keremeos in b.c.’s Okanagan region, Shegalla stars Lynn Redgrave (Shine, Georgy Girl), Lolita Davidovich (jfk, Blaze), Graham Greene (Dances with Wolves), Annick Obonsawin (Shirley Holmes) and Tygh Runyan (Kitchen Party) in a tale of a May-December relationship on a native reserve. Production wraps Oct. 30.

The project is cowritten by Joan Hopper and director Mort Ransen, exec produced by Raymond Massey and coproduced by Diane Patrick O’Connor and Trevor Hodgson.

With a file from Ian Edwards in Vancouver.