U.S. distributor monterey media has picked up all U.S. media rights to writer/director Ed Gass-Donnelly’s Small Town Murder Songs.

The Canadian theatrical feature about crime and redemption bowed at the Toronto International Film Festival, and starred Peter Stormare, Martha Plimpton, Jill Hennessy and Aaron Poole.

The drama about an aging police officer attempting to solve the first murder in his town in years also had award-winning festival runs in Torino, Whistler and Rotterdam before a Canadian theatrical release in February.

Small Town Murder Songs was produced by Lee Kim and Gass-Donnelly.