U.Okay.-based gross sales and distribution firm Blue Finch Films has secured worldwide rights to “Zero,” an motion thriller directed by Jean Luc Herbulot, recognized for his 2021 TIFF Midnight Insanity choice “Saloum.”
The movie has been chosen for Sitges Movie Pageant’s first wave, with further competition bulletins anticipated.
“Zero” follows two People who awaken in Senegal with explosive units connected to their our bodies and a 10-hour deadline to uncover the explanation. Guided by a mysterious voice on the cellphone, they need to full a collection of duties that inadvertently trigger chaos in Dakar. Towards a backdrop of rising anti-Western sentiment, the protagonists race towards time for survival and redemption.
The screenplay was co-written by Herbulot and Hus Miller, with Miller additionally producing alongside Paméla Diop, Steven Adams and Gary Dourdan. The forged consists of Miller, Cam McHarg, Moran Rosenblatt, Roger Sallah and Dourdan.
Herbulot mentioned: “I’ve at all times admired Sergio Leone’s Westerns, Akira Kurosawa’s samurai movies, Jean Pierre Melville’s noirs, George Miller’s post-apocalyptic motion and the Kim Jee-woon’s and Park Chan-wook’s of the filmic world — all robust ambassadors of a style but in addition a continent or a rustic. I imagine you’ll be able to survey a whole nation’s id and temper by its finest style movies and filmmakers.”
Mike Chapman of Blue Finch Movies added, “After blowing audiences away with ‘Saloum,’ we’re excited to be working with Jean Luc Herbulot on his latest imaginative and prescient – a visceral and kinetic thriller with a related political undercurrent. As quickly as we noticed a minimize, we knew this was one thing particular and we will’t await audiences to witness ‘Zero.’”
Blue Finch’s worldwide portfolio additionally options Sitges selections “Oddity,” winner of SXSW 2024’s Midnighter Viewers Award, and Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s thriller “Steppenwolf,” which also played at Rotterdam.
