Mongrel Media

Mongrel Media has acquired the Canadian distribution rights to Palme D’Or-winning film Dheepan. The Jacques Audiard-directed film stars Jesuthasan Antonythasan as Dheepan, a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior, who leaves the civil war of his homeland and finds himself living near Paris as a caretaker. The feature is produced by Paris-based Why Not Productions. A Canadian release date for the film has not yet been set.

Studio Film Group

Studio Film Group has picked up the Canadian rights for Punjabi-language film Chauthi Koot (“The Fourth Direction“). Nadia Sandhu, president of Studio Film Group, and Eva Diederix the managing director and head of sales at Elle Drive, negotiated the deal for the feature, which is produced by New Dehli-based company The Film Cafe and directed by Gurvinder Sigh (Anhe Ghore Da Daan/”Alms for a Blind Horse”). Chauthi Koot is based on a collection of short stories by Waryam Singh Sandhu, which looks at the lives of Punjabis during the violent struggle between the Indian government and separatists in 1984 Punjab.

Marina Cordoni Entertainment

Wolfe Releasing has picked up the U.S. rights from Marina Cordoni Entertainment for the LGBT film Portrait of a Serial Monogamist. The film, written and directed by John Mitchell and Christina Zeidler, stars Canadian actresses Diane Flacks, Carolyn Taylor, Sabrina Jalees, Caroline Gillis, and is set in the LGBT community of Toronto’s Queen West. Portrait of a Serial Monogamist will get its world premiere on May 31 at the closing night gala of Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival.

Industry Pictures and Chosen Waters Productions produced the film, with its theatrical release in the U.S. scheduled for late this year or early next. The deal was negotiated by Jim Stephens, president of Wolfe Releasing, and Marina Cordoni of MCE on behalf of Industry Pictures and Chosen Waters Productions.

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