Toronto-based Photon Films has acquired the Canadian rights to Tracie Laymon’s U.S. dramedy Bob Trevino Likes It.

Bob Trevino Likes It (Laymon’s Terms, Five by Eight Productions) premiered at last year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival, where it won the Jury Award and the Audience Award in the Narrative Feature Competition. It later went on to have its B.C. premiere at the Whistler Film Festival, winning the EDA Award for Best Female Directed Feature.

Photon has scheduled the Canadian theatrical release for March 21.

Bob Trevino Likes It stars Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria) and John Leguizamo (The Green Veil). It follows a young woman who, after being rejected by her father, forms a friendship with an older man who shares the same name as him. The film is inspired by a real-life friendship that writer-director-producer Laymon developed with a man who shared her father’s name.

French Stewart (Queen Bees), Lauren “Lolo” Spencer (With Love) and Rachel Bay Jones (Young Sheldon) also star in the film.

Producers on the film are Laymon, Sean Mullin, Edgar Rosa and Felipe Dieppa. Ferreira, Leguizamo, Kirk D’Amico, Mike Sobiloff, Dale Holdren and Rose Stewart are executive producers. It is distributed in the U.S. by L.A.-based Roadside Attractions.

Image courtesy of Photon Films