The U.K.-based outfit (Yet) Another Distribution Company has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the documentary feature The Ashgrove Experiment.

The documentary, which follows the process of making Jeremy LaLonde’s 2022 improvised drama Ashgrove, is directed by Christopher Warre Smets (The Last Hit Man).

The film is produced by Jonas Chernick (The Burning Season) for his prodco Banana-Moon Sky Films, LaLonde’s Cryingman Productions and Peter Harvey Productions, all based in Toronto.

Executive producers include Amanda Brugel (Infinity Pool); Cory Chernick and Daryn Chernick, who also produced the original film; Spencer Giese (James vs. His Future Self); Hollywood Suite president and co-founder David Kines and entertainment lawyer Sam Posner. The film was funded by Hollywood Suite and private investors.

Ashgrove was directed and co-written by LaLonde along with stars Chernick and Brugel. The film, which was shot in Kitchener and Waterloo, Ont. in September 2020, follows a scientist whose ability to stop a pandemic hinges on stabilizing her relationship with her husband during a weekend retreat. (Yet) Another is the U.K. distributor.

Also starring in the film is Shawn Doyle (The Expanse), Natalie Brown (The Strain), Sugith Varughese (Kim’s Convenience) and Christine Horne (Fellow Travelers).

(Yet) Another Distribution Company plans to release the doc on Prime Video in the U.K. and North America and on YouTube globally on Nov. 18. The deal was negotiated by (Yet) Another’s Shawny McIntosh and The Ashgrove Experiment’s producers.

The documentary premiered at the Revue Cinema earlier in May and has been available on Hollywood Suite since June.

The Ashgrove Experiment is the latest actor-director collaboration between Chernick and LaLonde after 2015’s How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town and 2019’s James vs. His Future Self, which the pair co-wrote together.

Image courtesy of Banana-Moon Sky Films