Entertainment One Films has landed the Canadian and international rights to the feature Amreeka, which will have its world premiere at next week’s Sundance festival.

The U.S./Canada/Kuwait copro is the debut feature of Palestinian-American director Cherien Dabis and was shot in partly in Manitoba, where Buffalo Gal Pictures’ Liz Jarvis (The Stone Angel) served as co-producer alongside lead producers Paul Barkin and Christina Piovesan.

The story follows a Palestinian family’s struggle to adapt to life in the U.S. The deal was closed by Barkin and E1’s Bryan Gliserman and Charlotte Mickie.

‘It’s a gem, a wonderful example of what happens when passion and cooperation, two unlikely partners, come together,’ commented Mickie in a Friday release.

Amreeka will be released later this year.

Meanwhile, production is underway on E1 Television’s dark comedy Hung, which recently got a 10-ep order from HBO. Hung is set to begin airing in June.

It is the first U.S. series pickup for E1’s TV unit, since it acquired Blueprint Entertainment last year, and the first deal with HBO, which will hold international distribution rights.

The series stars Thomas Jane (Medium) as a struggling, but uncommonly well-endowed high school basketball coach who figures out a way to use his best asset. It is written by Colette Burson (Coming Soon) and Dmitry Lipkin (The Riches) and exec produced by Alexander Payne (Sideways), who also directed the pilot.