Jeff Tremaine Brent Lang Marci Wiseman Arianna Bocco Diane Quon Daniel J.Chalfen David Siev USA state Michigan film awards president Jeff Tremaine Brent Lang Marci Wiseman Arianna Bocco Diane Quon Daniel J.Chalfen David Siev USA state Michigan

IFC Films Buys SXSW Award Winner ‘Bad Axe’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIFC Films has acquired worldwide rights to the SXSW award-winning documentary “Bad Axe.” The deeply personal film is directed by David Siev, and follows the director as he returns home to rural Michigan.

There, he captures his Asian-American family’s quest to keep their local restaurant alive, amidst the backdrop of pandemic and Trump-era political and racial tensions.

It’s Siev’s feature debut. IFC Films will release “Bad Axe” in theaters and on VOD in 2022. Producers include Jude Harris, Diane Quon, Katarina Vasquez, and Siev.

The film was executive produced by Jeff Tremaine, Shanna Zablow Newton, Marci Wiseman, Daniel J. Chalfen, Dawn Bonder, Michael Meinhold and Tim Chow. “Bad Axe” had its world premiere at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award and received Special Jury Recognition for Exceptional Intimacy in Storytelling in the Documentary Feature Competition.

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