EXCLUSIVE: Collectively Movies has acquired worldwide gross sales rights to Lowland Children, a documentary produced by Darren Aronofsky about America’s first local weather refugees, forward of the movie’s world premiere at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen.
Danish-born filmmaker Sandra Winther directed the function which “follows two youngsters [Howard and Juliette] and their uncle [Chris] – on Louisiana’s quickly disappearing Isle de Jean Charles. They face an unsure future because the U.S. authorities makes an unprecedented effort to resettle their complete neighborhood earlier than the island succumbs to the ocean.”
Lowland Children is a co-production of Protozoa, Actual Lava, Misfits Leisure, Ardour Footage, and MBK, in affiliation with Minderoo Footage, Evoke Media, and RandomGood Movies. Together with Oscar nominee Aronofsky, founding father of Protozoa, the movie is produced by Lizzie Gillett (Tremendous/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story) of Misfits Leisure; Oscar nominee Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær (The Cave; Apolonia, Apolonia) of Actual Lava; Protozoa’s Brendan Naylor; William Crouse (Monster Manufacturing facility), and Lauren Avinoam (All These Small Moments).
In 2016, the Obama administration allotted $1 billion to assist communities in 13 states “adapt to local weather change,” (because the New York Instances reported). Nearly $50 million of that was supplied to resettle all of the residents of Isle de Jean Charles as rising sea ranges threatened to swallow the realm. Then Hurricane Ida struck in 2021, destroying “practically each dwelling on the peninsula and compelled residents to flee,” the CPH:DOX program writes. “Since then, the authorities have labored to maneuver your entire neighborhood additional inland, and now Howard and Juliette should depart their childhood behind as they and the remainder of the small neighborhood watch their world disappear.”
CPH:DOX programmers remark, “Younger Danish documentary filmmaker Sandra Winther has created a sensual and intimate movie about ache and unity, and concerning the new realities of being a local weather refugee within the American South.”
‘Lowland Children’
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In a press release, Winther mentioned, “After six years within the area, I’m thrilled to lastly share this story with the world and convey its affect to a wider viewers. With the unbelievable help of my crew and the experience of Sarah Mosses and Collectively Movies, I do know this movie is in the perfect fingers to succeed in the individuals who want it most—now greater than ever.”
“Sandra Winther’s intimate method to storytelling brings audiences into the guts of this historic second,” famous Sarah Mosses, founder and CEO of Collectively Movies, “exhibiting the power and resilience of a household going through an unsure future. This is among the most cinematic and exquisite local weather movies we have now seen in recent times, and is a well timed reminder of the approaching erosion of land that may end in many households going through an identical destiny.”
Added producer Lizzie Gillett, “Sandra’s expertise is really considered one of a sort, and with a recent, youthful eye, she has created a movie that humanizes a deeply pressing world problem. I couldn’t be extra thrilled that somebody as insightful and mission-driven as Sarah Mosses, alongside together with her crew at Collectively Movies, shall be guiding the movie to make sure it reaches the viewers it deserves.”
The acquisition deal was led by Collectively Movies’ Sarah Mosses and Misfits Leisure’s Lizzie Gillett. Collectively Movies plans to steer “an Impression Marketing campaign for the movie to activate audiences throughout the US affected by the problems within the movie,” in keeping with a launch.
Government producers embody Alice Aedy, and co-founder and CEO of Earthrise Studio, Marc Smit (Cineart), Paul Wiegard (Madman), and Sons of Rigor Movies. Amber Morning Star Byars (Sugarcane) serves as consulting producer. Cinematography is by Andrea Gavazzi, with music by Katya Mihailova. Eva Dubovoy and Per Ok. Kirkegaard edited the movie.
Director Sandra Winther at an IDA screening of the brief model of her documentary ‘Lowland Children’ in Los Angeles, November 14, 2019
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Lowland Children holds its world premiere on Monday, March 24 (on the Empire Bio) in Copenhagen, adopted by extra screenings on March 25, March 27, and March 29.
The function documentary grew out of a 22-minute iteration that Winther launched in 2019, which received Finest Brief on the Palm Springs Worldwide ShortFest, Rhode Island Worldwide Movie Pageant, Minneapolis-St. Paul Worldwide Movie Pageant, Downtown Movie Pageant Los Angeles, and deadCenter Movie Pageant in Oklahoma Metropolis, OK.
