EXCLUSIVE: Movie Motion has acquired North American rights for French filmmaker Auberi Edler’s documentary An American Pastoral, chronicling the struggles in a rural Pennsylvanian neighborhood over the way forward for its public faculties.
The cinema vérité-style work – produced by Les Movies d’Ici Méditerranée – received the Greatest Directing Award on the Worldwide Documentary Pageant Amsterdam (IDFA).
Movie Motion have slated the work for a theatrical launch in 2025, to be adopted by a launch on main digital platforms and the house leisure market.
The documentary captures the battle for management of public faculties in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, a picturesque city located within the rolling farmland of Lancaster County.
On the floor, it has all of the appeal of small-town America however behind its bucolic veneer lies a fracture within the making as native college board conferences flip right into a battleground.
After months of vitriolic debates over Covid-19 restrictions, funds priorities, and library books, 4 of the 5 long-serving Republican incumbents announce their retirement, leaving the door open for far-right Christian Nationalists to doubtlessly seize management.
The acquisition announcement was made by Movie Motion President Michael Rosenberg and Arianna Castoldi, Head of Documentary Gross sales for Mediawan.
“In true vérité model, Edler presents no narration or commentary, as a substitute letting the interpersonal dramas and behind-the-scenes occasions play out on display in absorbing style,” mentioned Rosenberg. “At a time when politics has seeped into each aspect of our lives, An American Pastoral exhibits how the fraying of our nationwide cloth is enjoying out regionally.”
Additional current acquisitions for Movie Motion embrace Marie Losier’s Queer Lion-nominee Peaches Goes Bananas, Shall We Dance?, starring Oscar nominee Koji Yakusho, and Pedro Martin-Calero’s The Wailing.
