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Championing
a vibrant mix of top quality feature films - from Oscar nominated
big hitters and star studded fare, to trailblazing fresh work
from thrilling new directors, HIGH POINT FILMS remains at the
forefront of international film sales.
Fully
dedicated to the worldwide acquisition, financing, packaging,
marketing and sales of exciting feature films for both theatrical
and ancillary markets, HIGH POINT FILMS represents the crème de
la crème in distinctive, award winning film-making from all around
the world, including from such luminaries as GEORGE A. ROMERO,
LENNY ABRAHAMSON, THEO VAN GOGH, STEPHEN KING, KEN RUSSELL, and
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKI, as well as high profile talent like JAMES
MCAVOY, NAOMI WATTS, IMELDA STAUNTON, JULIET STEVENSON, ANDIE
MACDOWELL, COLM MEANEY, ANDY SERKIS and JACK DAVENPORT to name
just a few!
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LATEST
NEWS
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- NOTHING
TO LOSE, SKIN and EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION will all be
screening at the upcoming Munich Film Festival in June.
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- High
Point has boarded new British horror film SPLINTERED currently
in production. Footage will be available to screen at
our office.
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- Mary
MuGuckian's INCONCEIVABLE is added to High Point's Cannes
film festival slate which is being sold in conjunction
with Penny Wolf.
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- NOTHING
TO LOSE has been awarded the Jury Prize for Best Film
at the Philadelphia Film Festival. Director Pieter Kuijpers
was on hand to accept the award.
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- The
number one film of the Dutch box office, SUMMER HEAT,
is added to our Cannes line up.
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- Cannes
screening times have been finalised. Please see the times
listed to the right under each title. We will be screening
SKIN (market premiere), NOTHING TO LOSE and KINGS.
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- Tom
Collins's Irish entry to the foreign language Oscar, KINGS,
wins Best International Film at the Westchester Film Festival.
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- Pieter
Kuijpers's NOTHING TO LOSE selected for the Philadelphia
and Munich Film Festivals.
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- Jim Threapleton's EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION is released
on DVD in North America March 25th and in the UK April
28th.
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- NOTHING
TO LOSE passes the 100,000 admissions theshold in the
Netherlands
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- KINGS
wins 5 awards at the Irish Film & TV Academy Awards
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CURRENT
FILMS
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 INCONCEIVABLE
Sold
in conjunction with Penny Wolf.
From
award-winning director Mary McGuckian (Rag Tale, Intervention)
comes a satirical look at the test tube baby industry. Features
an all-star cast including Jennifer Tilly, Andie MacDowell,
Colm Feore, Elizabeth McGovern, Geraldine Chaplin, Jordi
Mollà, Kerry Fox, David Sutcliffe and John Sessions.
Private Screening in Cannes
Monday 19th May @ 16.00 Olympia 9
(invitation only, collect at our office)
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 NOTHING
TO LOSE
The
Jury Prize winner for Best Film at the Philadelphia Film
Festival. Convinced of his innocence, a man accused of murdering
his father and sister escapes from a high security mental
hospital. Fearing his safety from the police he takes a
13 year old runaway girl hostage. On the run, kidnapper
and victim form an unlikely bond, but nothing is quite what
it seems.
Screening
in Cannes
Friday 16 May @ 11:30 Palais H Saturday 17 May @ 15:30 Palais
H Monday 19 May@ 15:30 Palais H
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info
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 SPLINTERED
(in production)
A
new British horror film from the producer of Half Light,
SPLINTERED is the story of ateenager, Sophie who, haunted
by her childhood abuse, must come to terms with her entrapment
and fate at the hands of two deeply disturbed brothers,
Gavin and Vincent.
Footage
available in our office
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 SKIN
Based
on true events and set in 1979, SKIN is the tragic story
of a boy who in trying to break free from life with a father
traumatised by the Holocaust leads him to the emerging skin-head
youth culture and the neo-Nazi revival.
Market
Premiere at Cannes
Saturday 17 May @ 10:00 Gray 1 Tuesday 20 May @ 12:00 Gray
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 THE
RACE
(pre-production)
Starring
Colm Meaney and Susan Lynch. 11 year old Mary lives a life
of drudgery on a farm. Determined to realise her dream of
becoming a racing driver she enters a go-kart race against
the wishes of her parents and the general scorn of her village.
(credits
non contractual)
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 KINGS
WINNER of 5 Irish Film & TV Academy Awards,
Colm Meaney heads a multi-award winning ensemble cast in
this powerful film, based on the highly critically acclaimed
play, the Kings of the Kilburn High Road, by Jimmy Murphy.
Screening
in Cannes
Wednesday 21 May @ 17:30 Palais H
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info
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 THE
SEA CHANGE
(pre-production)
Starring
Juliet Stevenson and Tom Burke. Nikki Black has never been
happy. Abandoned at birth, she has spent most of her life
in foster homes and ‘care’, with fairystories her only escape.
Desperate for revenge, she decides to find her birth mother,
confront her … then kill her. Based on the novel ISLAND
by Jane Rogers.
(credits
not contractual)
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 SUMMER
HEAT
Number
one at the Dutch Box Office, multi-award winning actress
Monique van de Ven directs her first film, a romantic drama
set on an idyllic island where a photographer meets a beautiful
woman and is drawn into her dangerous world.
Promo
screening in Cannes office
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info
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