Jennie Punter Visit Films has snapped up world sales rights (excluding Canada) to R.T. Thorne’s feature bow, “40 Acres,” a dystopian survival thriller, which is screening in Toronto’s Special Presentations. “R.T.
is an exciting director who has proved himself in other formats,” said Visit president Ryan Kampe. “Audiences will be taken with his commercial approach to social-issue filmmaking. [The film] epitomizes what we try to do at Visit by merging the two areas.” Filmed on location in Northern Ontario, “40 Acres” follows soldier-turned-farmer Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler, who also stars in Toronto’s “The Piano Lesson”) and her family as they defend their remote homestead against a militia.
Michael Greyeyes (“Rutherford Falls”) stars as Freeman’s partner, with Toronto’s Kataem O’Connor as the eldest son who desires a different path after meeting a young woman (Milcania Diaz-Rojas) beyond the fence. “Expressing ideas about land and food sovereignty in a film featuring Black and Indigenous characters makes sense with their shared traumas of the colonial past,” Thorne said.
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