EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Leisure has acquired North American distribution rights to Went Up The Hill directed by Samuel Van Grinsven (Sequin in a Blue Room).
The POP Movie and Causeway Movies manufacturing stars Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Issues).
Pic had its world premiere on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant and Greenwich will launch the movie in theaters subsequent summer season.
The synopsis reads: “Deserted as a toddler, Jack (Dacre Montgomery) travels to distant New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged mom Elizabeth. There he meets her widow, Jill (Vicky Krieps), who has questions of her personal. Over the nights that observe, Elizabeth returns and possesses Jack and Jill, utilizing every of their our bodies to talk to the opposite. Caught in a life-threatening nocturnal dance, Jack and Jill should discover a technique to relinquish Elizabeth’s maintain earlier than she pushes them to the sting.”
The psychological drama impressed by author/director Samuel Van Grinsven’s recollections of his childhood in New Zealand’s South Island.
Went Up The Hill was produced by Vicky Pope, Samantha Jennings, and Kristina Ceyton with principal manufacturing funding from the New Zealand Movie Fee and Display screen Australia, and help from Display screen CanterburyNZ, Create NSW, Spectrum Movies, Stage 23, RM Sound, Head Gear Movies, Vendetta Movies, Fulcrum Media Finance and the New Zealand Authorities’s Display screen Manufacturing Grant.
Greenwich’s Andy Bohn negotiated the acquisition with CAA Media Finance and Bankside Movies on behalf of the filmmakers.
Grinsven mentioned: “Following our lovely launch in Toronto, it’s a thrill that Greenwich will now convey Went Up The Hill to cinemas. I can’t await U.S. audiences to see each Vicky and Dacre’s haunting performances in these actually distinctive roles.”
