The film is part of an eight-picture deal between Black Fawn Films and Breakthrough Entertainment.
Proper Rights has acquired the global distribution rights to two Cream Productions docs, plus more deals of the week. (Cream’s Justice For MLK pictured.)
The Toronto producer and distributor also acquired the global distribution rights to RDG’s Adam’s Testament as part of the agreement.
The Toronto-shot horror feature from Breakthrough Entertainment and L.A.-based 5’7 Films is the first of several in the works.
More episodes of the Breakthrough series are in development.
The companies will coproduce the project based on the seven-part Hinges of History book series by American author Thomas Cahill.
Whistler Film Festival has named the six producers selected for its 2015 Feature Project Lab program.
The Montreal festival will include world premieres for films from Larry Kent, Chad Archibald and Gabriel Carrer.
The prodco also revealed it has optioned the rights to a collection of children’s poems by Canadian author Dennis Lee.
The Greenberg siblings’ production and financing company has partnered with Breakthrough on developing unscripted lifestyle programming.
The two-hour original movie from Breakthrough Entertainment will air on the youth-focused channel in early 2016.