
03/11/2022
13 acquisition titles to watch out for at SXSW 2022
SHOUTING DOWN TO MIDNIGHT included on Screen International's list of must watch films at SXSW 2022!
In-person fest runs March 11-20.
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Traveling to over 20 markets and festivals each year including Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlin, SXSW, Tribeca, Cannes, Toronto, MIP, and AFM we scour the globe for both buyers and new films. Acting as a sales agent for films in pre-production, post-production and completed stages, Visit licenses to theatrical distributors, DVD/digital outlets, and broadcasters. Additionally, Visit works with over 300
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SHOUTING DOWN TO MIDNIGHT included on Screen International's list of must watch films at SXSW 2022!
In-person fest runs March 11-20.
JETHICA included on IndieWire's list of most anticipated films and TV shows at SXSW this year! Eric Kohn calls it "A minimalist supernatural comedy that suggests early Jim Jarmusch by way of An American Werewolf in London... The ultimate pandemic movie, and the latest economic vision from a rising filmmaker well worth the attention."
As the annual Austin, TX event readies to roll out its first in-person edition in two years, its packed slate offers plenty for attendees. Here are the best bets.
ASCENSION won Outstanding Debut Feature, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score while EL PLANETA took home the Heterodox Award at Cinema Eye Honors last night!!!
The Oscar-nominated “Flee” took home the top prize at the 15th annual Cinema Eye Honors on Tuesday evening at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Going into the evening, Neon an…
Exclusive trailer debut of José María Cabral's newest film PARSLEY, which will be world premiering at the Miami Film Festival!
Dominican filmmaker Jose Maria Cabral has shared the trailer to his eighth feature, “Parsley,” with Variety ahead of its world premiere at the Miami Int’l Film Festival. New York-based Visit Films …
ASCENSION director Jessica Kingdon was interviewed on The Daily Show last night!!! Clip starts at 24:14.
England's Prince Andrew settles his sexual abuse lawsuit, Trevor talks to trailblazing NHL hockey legend Willie O'Ree, and filmmaker Jessica Kingdon discusses her documentary "Ascension."
ROBE OF GEMS wins the Silver Bear Jury Prize!!!
Winners have been announced at the 72nd Berlin Film Festival, with Carla Simon’s Alcarràs scooping the coveted Golden Bear prize as the best film of the festival’s International Competition. …
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian calls ROBE OF GEMS "a dazzlingly accomplished and confident debut feature!"
Natalia López Gallardo’s feature debut unfolds with a mix of woozy uncertainty and shock tactics that mirror the murky criminal dealings at its heart
Exclusive debut of the trailer for ROBE OF GEMS on Deadline! World premieres in Competition today at the Berlin Film Festival.
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran editor Natalia Lopez Gallardo’s feature directing debut Robe Of Gems screens in competition today at the Berlin Film Festival, check out the first trailer above. Set in the count…
Greenwich Entertainment will be releasing The Sanctity of Space from filmmakers Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson in the US!
Acquisition follow recent deals for German-speaking Europe, France, Italy.
Jessica Kingdon's doc ASCENSION has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2022 Oscars!!!! Congrats to the whole team, and so thrilled to have been a part of this incredible film's journey.
Richard Brody of The New Yorker praises The Cathedral at Sundance 2022: "A fervent memory piece, filled with haunting images of Jesse’s visions (...) D’Ambrose’s exceptional style and technique evoke his equally original concept of the very nature of personality and character—and of the cinema itself."
The festival stayed on-line for another year, but independent filmmaking is thriving.
Thrilled to be working on Natalia López Gallardo's debut ROBE OF GEMS, which will be world premiering in Competition at Berlinale 2022!
New York-based Visit Films has swooped on world sales rights to “Robe of Gems” (“Manto de Gemas”) which will world premiere in main competition at next’s month’s Berlinale. Produced by some of the …
Exclusive trailer debut of THE CATHEDRAL! Be sure to catch the film at Sundance 2022!
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ASCENSION has been shortlisted for Best Documentary at the 2022 Oscars!!!!!!
Animated doc 'Flee,' shortlisted for both documentary feature and international feature, could make history with this year's nominations.
Thrilled to be working on THE CATHEDRAL!
EXCLUSIVE: Visit Films has boarded worldwide sales rights to Ricky D’Ambrose’s new film The Cathedral, which will get its U.S. premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. In The Cathedral, which was pa…
Thrilled to share that THE CATHEDRAL, the newest film from director Ricky D'Ambrose, will be at Sundance Film Festival!!! Tickets go on sale 12/17 at festival.sundance.org!
As the festival prepares to mount another hybrid event, non-fiction features promise to figure prominently in an evolving space.
I WAS A SIMPLE MAN is #4 on Richard Brody's list of Best Movies of 2021!
This year’s releases, augmented by movies postponed from last year, offer exceptional artistry amid the industry’s commercial difficulties.
Indiewire lists Amalia Ulman's wonderful performance in EL PLANETA as one of the best breakthrough performances of 2021!
IndieWire combs through another strange year of streaming and theatrical releases and rebooted festivals to pick the rising stars we can’t wait to see more of.
Check out an hour long special for THE NOWHERE INN on BBC Radio 6 Music's Sound and Vision series, featuring interviews with Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstein, presented by Miranda Sawyer!
St Vincent and Carrie Brownstein chat to Miranda Sawyer about their film The Nowhere Inn.
EL PLANETA included on Indiewire's list of Best Movies of 2021!
These may be strange times for the movie business, but the art form is doing just fine.
3 nominations for our films! Congrats to ASCENSION on being nominated for Best Documentary and EL PLANETA for Best Screenplay and Breakthrough Performance at the Gotham Awards!
“The Green Knight,” “The Lost Daughter,” “Passing,” “Pig” and “Test Pattern” will compete for best feature film at the 31st annual IFP Go…
A huge congrats to the ASCENSION team on their 6 nominations at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards!!!
The two films notched six nominations apiece, while R.J. Cutler will receive the Critics Choice Association’s esteemed Pennebaker Award.
Variety declares that GOOD MADAM "firmly establishes director Jenna Cato Bass as a standard-bearer for new South African cinema!"
“It’s not that Mama doesn’t like this house — this house doesn’t like Mama,” explains Tsidi to her young daughter Winnie about the roomy, comfortable Cape Town pad in …
A great home for a magnificent film. So incredibly thrilled to share that DOWN WITH THE KING will be released by Sony Pictures and Stage 6 Films!!!
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films has acquired worldwide rights to Breaker Studios’ Down with the King, which had its world premiere in the ACID lineup that runs parallel to the Cannes Film F…
DOWN WITH THE KING wins the Grand Prize at Deauville Film Festival!!!!
Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket” won a pair of prizes at the 47th Deauville American Film Festival where “Blue Bayou,” “Down With the King,” “Pleasure”…
Can't wait for the TIFF world premiere of Mlungu Wam (Good Madam)!
Fox Fire Films, Sanusi Chronicles, Causeway Films produced.
EL PLANETA wins GWFF Award for Best First Feature at the Jerusalem Film Festival!
The Jerusalem Film Festival has named the winners from its various competition strands this year, with Juho Kuosmanen’s Finnish drama Compartment No. 6 winning Best Film in the international compet…
Coming this Fall! Don't miss THE NOWHERE INN, starring St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein, and Sundance comedy EL PLANETA in theaters and VOD!
While the theatrical calendar is still very much up in the air, distributors are dating films as long as cinemas remain in business—thus we have a fairly comprehensive fall preview. As we do each y…
So so excited to share that MTV Documentary Films will be releasing Tribeca doc ASCENSION worldwide!!!
MTV Documentary Films has acquired worldwide rights to “Ascension (登楼叹),” Jessica Kingdon’s observational portrait of the economic growth of China, as well as the class divides that this expansion …
MLUNGU WAM will be world premiering at TIFF 2021!
The Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness program is already jam-packed with genre films and yet there are even more goodies hiding within
So excited to be working with all the amazing distributors that will be putting First Date out around the world!
Feature directorial debut by Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp premiered at Sundance in January.
Congrats to EL PLANETA on winning the Peripheral Visions Award at Galway Film Fleadh!!!
From best first film to short film winners, here’s everything you need to know
Thrilled to be boarding DOWN WITH THE KING starring Freddie Gibbs in his feature debut!!!
EXCLUSIVE: Visit Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to Down With The King starring Grammy-nominated rapper Freddie Gibbs. The film, produced by Breaker Studios, will have its world premiere …
Exclusive clip from Cannes film The Storms of Jeremy Thomas!
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first footage from Cannes-bound documentary The Storms Of Jeremy Thomas by Mark Cousins (The Story Of Film: An Odyssey). Announced yesterday for the Cannes Classics str…
Our film The Storms of Jeremy Thomas will be world premiering at the Cannes Film Festival!
Mark Cousins joins iconic producer on annual road trip to Cannes.
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