Equinoxe Films has secured the Canadian distribution rights to Everything’s Gone Green, a film previously in limbo with ThinkFilm since the latter’s buyout by a U.S. investor.

The indie comedy, about a slacker (Paulo Costanzo) who gets rich quick and a little too easily, was scripted by Douglas Coupland (Generation X, JPod), marking the author’s first work intended for the screen. Paul Fox (The Dark Hours) directs and Radke Films and True West Films produce.

Everything’s Gone Green will be released April 20 in Toronto and Vancouver theaters – the number of screens not yet confirmed – followed by other urban centers. The U.S. release is skedded for an initial 11 screens on April 13 through First Independent Pictures, following a March 10 screening at the SXSW festival in Austin, TX.

Radke producer Chris Nanos is pleased that the Equinoxe release is in sync with First Independent’s.

‘We wanted a Canadian release around the same time… so we just hammered away at that,’ Nanos tells Playback Daily. ‘That’s why we pushed so hard at trying to get a qualified distributor to leverage off what was happening in the United States.’

After ThinkFilm president and CEO Jeff Sackman and partner Robert Lantos sold the Toronto-based company last October to U.S. producer and investor David Bergstein, unreleased Canuck titles in Think’s hands — Citizen Duane being another — were left in need of a domestic distrib, since laws disallow foreign-owned companies from distributing homegrown films in Canada.

Equinoxe Films VP Marie-Claude Poulin is optimistic about the commercial prospects for Everything’s Gone Green. ‘This film is funny, entertaining and smart, and it’s been a consistent hit with film festival audiences,’ she said in a statement.