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!

 

LATEST NEWS
 
  • NOTHING TO LOSE, SKIN and EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION will all be screening at the upcoming Munich Film Festival in June.
  • High Point has boarded new British horror film SPLINTERED currently in production. Footage will be available to screen at our office.
  • Mary MuGuckian's INCONCEIVABLE is added to High Point's Cannes film festival slate which is being sold in conjunction with Penny Wolf.
  • 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.
  • The number one film of the Dutch box office, SUMMER HEAT, is added to our Cannes line up.
  • 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.
  • Tom Collins's Irish entry to the foreign language Oscar, KINGS, wins Best International Film at the Westchester Film Festival.
  • Pieter Kuijpers's NOTHING TO LOSE selected for the Philadelphia and Munich Film Festivals.
  • Jim Threapleton's EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION is released on DVD in North America March 25th and in the UK April 28th.
  • NOTHING TO LOSE passes the 100,000 admissions theshold in the Netherlands
  • KINGS wins 5 awards at the Irish Film & TV Academy Awards
CURRENT FILMS
 

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

More info

   

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

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 1

More info

   

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)

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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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)

 

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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