EXCLUSIVE: Cornerstone Films has closed key distribution deals, including Memento in France, for UK filmmaker Harry Lighton’s Un Certain Regard world premiere Pillion.
It has also sold to Canada (Photon), Spain (Madfer), Australia-New Zealand (Rialto), Baltics and Ukraine (Ad Astra) and Greece (Cinobo).
A24 will release in the US, Picturehouse in the UK and September Films in Benelux.
A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive. Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård star.
Element Pictures’ Emma Norton, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe are producing together with Lee Groombridge, with financing from BBC Film and BFI, in association with Fremantle, Picturehouse Entertainment and September Film.
The screenplay was developed with BBC Film and is based on Adam Mars-Jones’ novel Box Hill.
Executive producers are BBC Film’s Eva Yates, Louise Ortega for the BFI, Clare Binns for Picturehouse, September Film’s Pim Hermeling, Cornerstone’s Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder, Fremantle’s Christian Vesper and Alexander Skarsgård.
Screen Star of Tomorrow 2018 Lighton’s previous credits include Bafta and Bifa-nominated Sundance 2018 premiere short Wren Boys.