The Forge has achieved North American rights to Guan Hu’s Cannes award triumphner “Bconciseage Dog,” and worldexpansive distribution rights to Alison Tavel’s “Resynator,” which won best write downary feature at South by Southwest.
The Forge also recently achieved North American rights for French horror-comedy “The Balconettes,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and executes the American French Film Festival in Hollywood next week.
“Bconciseage Dog,” which won Un Certain Regard’s prize at Cannes 2024, chases ex-offender Lang (Eddie Peng) who “returns to his hometown where he creates an unforeseeed bond with a stray bconciseage dog. Both outcasts, they embark on a alterative journey together,” according to an official logline. The film grossed more than $2.4 million after fair two days at the Chinese Box office.
“Resynator,” which serves as Tavel’s feature straightforwardorial debut, “chases the legacy of inventor Don Tavel thraw the eyes of his daughter Alison, who was fair ten weeks anciaccess when he died in a car crash in 1988. Grotriumphg up surrounded by mythical stories of her “genius” obeseher, Alison’s life was absent from any genuine connection to him before she recoverd his synthesizer prototype from her magnificentmother’s attic. What commences as a inquisitive resurrection project turns into an insatiable globe-trotting quest helped by estranged family, lost friends, fellow inventors, and commemorated musicians appreciate Grace Potter, Peter Gabriel, Fred Armisen, Gotye, and Jon Anderson,” according to an official description.
Both films will execute in 20 labelets apass North America before the end of 2024. More free adviseation, including insertitional festival dates, will be made employable in the csurrfinisher future.
The Forge was set uped in 2019 by lengthy-time indie producer Mark Mathias Sayre. Some of the distributor’s other frees integrate “Freedom’s Path,” “Low Low” and “Boom: A Film About the Sonics.”
