Apple Unique Movies has landed world rights to “The Last First: Winter K2,” a sports activities documentary that not too long ago premiered at Sundance Film Festival.
Directed by Amir Bar Lev, “The Final First” captures a 2021 excessive mountaineering expedition to scale K2, the second-highest peak on the planet. It’s advised by means of the lens of mountaineers — Icelander John Snorri Sigurjónsson and Pakistani father-son workforce Ali and Sajid Sadpara — who’re competing to be first to summit K2 within the winter, when the mountain’s situations are the cruelest. In a press launch, Apple stated “The Final First: Winter K2” takes viewers “the icy heights and unpredictable climate of K2 and divulges a stunning and layered story — one in all technique and willpower, class and caste, cash and energy — all below life and demise circumstances.”
“At its core, it is a profoundly human story about the price of ambition and the folks left looking for solutions,” stated producers Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens of Propagate Content material. “Amir approaches the movie with empathy and precision, and we’re honored to see it attain a worldwide viewers by means of Apple TV after such a strong Sundance debut.”
In Selection’s overview, chief film critic Owen Gleiberman described “The Final First” as “engrossing, […] however not exhilarating,” including that it’s not one other climb-every-mountain doc of daredevil glory. It’s a film that exhibits us the darkish aspect of actually getting excessive.”
Sundance gross sales have been glacial; Olivia Wilde’s dinner-party comedy “The Invite” offered to A24, crowd-pleaser “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” was acquired by Sony Footage Classics and horror thriller “Leviticus” was nabbed by Neon. However different competition favorites like “Josephine,” “Wicker,” “Union County” and “Chasing Summer time” stay with out consumers.
Apple’s main Sundance acquisitions through the years embrace the Oscar-nominated documentary “Come See Me within the Good Mild,” musical dramedy “Flora and Son” and Academy Award-winner “CODA.”
