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Neon Buys TIFF Environmental Thriller ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’

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Manori Ravindran International Editor Neon has acquired the North American rights to the thriller “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” out of the Toronto International Film Festival, where it world premiered in the auteur-driven Platform section.

Based on Andreas Malm’s manifesto tackling the climate crisis, the film is directed by Daniel Goldhaber (“CAM”); produced, co-written and stars Ariela Barer (“Runaways”, “Atypical”); co-written by Jordan Sjol and edited by Daniel Garber (“CAM,” “Some Kind of Heaven”). “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” follows a group of young environmental activists who set out to sabotage an oil pipeline in a timely thriller that’s described as “part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of direct action as climate activism.” The film features an all-star ensemble cast including Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane, Jayme Lawson, Marcus Scribner, Jake Weary, Irene Bedard and Olive Jane Lorraine.

Neon is planning a theatrical release. The deal is one of the first out of Toronto, where the market has moved at glacial pace.

Magnolia Pictures on Monday acquired British period pic “Blue Jean,” but that film premiered in Venice. The main deal so far has been Focus Features’ $30 million worldwide deal for Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers.” In a joint statement, Goldhaber, Barer, Sjol and Garber said: “When we started working on this movie, Neon was a dream distribution partner.

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