American Film Market Dailies

THE LOST GIRLS
 
Altitude has acquired the UK & Irish distribution rights to  fantasy/drama feature The Lost Girls. The film is inspired by J.M. Barrie classic Peter Pan and is based on the novel by Laurie Fox. 
The film is written and directed by Livia De Paolis (Emoticon ;)), in which she also features along with an ensemble cast including Joely Richardson (101 Dalmatians, Nip/Tuck), Vanessa Redgrave (Atonement, Letters to Juliet), Julian Ovenden (The Crown, Bridgerton), Parker Sawyers (Southside with You, P-Valley), Emily Carey (House of the Dragon, Wonder Woman), Louis Partridge (Pistol, Enola Holmes), Ella Rae Smith (Séance, The Stranger) and Iain Glen (Resident Evil franchise, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Game of Thrones) as Hook.
Anna Patarakina (Breaking Surface, Get Even) is director of photography, Gini Godwin (Blue Story, The Flood) is production designer and Miguel E. Rebagliato (The Crown, The Little Drummer Girl) and David Freeman (Clash of the Titans, The Fully Monty) are the editors.  The original score is from Marc Canham (I Care a Lot, Close).
The Lost Girls chronicles four generations of Darling women as they struggle in the aftermath of their adventures with Peter Pan (Partridge) in Neverland.  Like her grandmother (Redgrave) and her mother Jane (Richardson), Wendy (Carey and De Paolis) must escape Pan’s hold on her and the promise he desperately wants her to keep. As her daughter Berry (Rae-Smith) comes into Peter’s orbit, Wendy must fight to save her relationship with her daughter while reconciling her legacy.
Altitude will release the film theatrically in late spring 2022.
Said producer Peter Touche “I have known Will and Andy for many years and I couldn’t think of a better partner to bring this fresh reimagining of the Peter Pan story to UK audiences, who will find themselves taken to unexpected places”.
“Altitude are extremely proud to be bringing Livia’s modern and exciting retelling of such a timeless and beloved story to audiences across the UK & Ireland next year,” said Andy Mayson, co-CEO of Altitude.
 
Myriad Pictures is handling international sales on the film and is co-repping the U.S. with UTA Independent Film Group.
Backers of The Lost Girls are Ingenious Media and Myriad Pictures in association with LipSync. Producers are Sam Tipper-Hale (Made in Italy, The Last Right, Starfish), Peter Touche (Unhinged, Military Wives, Blinded by the Light), and Livia de Paolis with Myriad’s Kirk D’Amico as an Executive Producer on the film.  Further Executive Producers are Andrea Scarso and Jamie Jessop for Ingenious Media, Norman Merry and Peter Hampden for LipSync, Laurie Fox and Razwana Akram.
 
About Myriad Pictures:
Based in Los Angeles, California, MYRIAD PICTURES is a leading independent entertainment company specializing in production, financing and worldwide distribution of feature films and television programming. Participating in top markets and festivals around the world, Myriad is known for its impressive and diverse slate of feature films including THE LAST WORD starring Amanda Seyfried and Shirley MacLaine, FATIMA starring Harvey Keitel, and more recently RIDE THE EAGLE starring Jake Johnson and Susan Sarandon. Myriad also recently launched Walter Hill’s DEAD FOR A DOLLAR starring Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe and Rachel Brosnahan currently in post-production.
 
About Ingenious Media:
For 23 years, Ingenious has been at the forefront of investing in the global creative economy and in that time has raised and deployed over $10 billion.  Ingenious has been involved in the production of a diverse slate of films, including the Academy Award® winning Judy, Life of Pi, Avatar, Selma, Academy Award® nominated Carol, Brooklyn and At Eternity’s Gate, five films in the successful X-Men franchise, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, breakout British hits Military Wives, Suffragette and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, as well as acclaimed television programmes such as The Fall, Dr. Foster and Watership Down.  Titles currently on release or coming soon include Roger Michell’s The Duke, Craig Roberts’s The Phantom of the Open, Sean Penn’s Flag Day and Oliver Stone’s JFK – Through the Looking Glass.  Titles currently in production include Florian Zeller’s The Son, Stephen Frears’s The Lost King, Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic, Phyllis Nagy’s Call Jane, Frances O’Connor’s Emily and David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future.
 
About LipSync:
LipSync Post is an internationally recognised post-house, providing post-production services to the film and television industry for over 30 years. Since 2008, LipSync Productions has invested over £80 million in over 180 feature film and TV projects. Such recent projects include ‘Minamata’, ‘Falling’, ‘Archive’, ‘Colette’, ‘Out of Blue’, ‘Peterloo’, ‘Harlots’ and ‘A Suitable Boy’.  With regular festival appearances and over 200 major award nominations and wins, LipSync has become one of the UK’s leading production partners.
 
 
About Altitude:
Altitude Media Group is the independent UK based studio led by Will Clarke chairman and joint-CEO with Andy Mayson, comprising of Altitude Film Production, Altitude Film Sales with Managing Director Mike Runagall, Altitude Film Distribution with Managing Director Hamish Moseley, Altitude Factual with Managing Director Paul Sowerbutts and Altitude Television.  In 2020 US based investment group 30WEST took a significant minority stake in the group.
 
Since launching in 2013 Altitude Film Distribution have proudly supported talented filmmakers and given their films the dynamic and bold releases they deserve.
 
To date Altitude have championed over 120 films, ranging from the Academy and BAFTA award-winners, MOONLIGHT, ROCKS, MINARI, 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, AMY, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO through to critically acclaimed THE FLORIDA PROJECT, DIEGO MARADONA, LADY MACBETH, BEAST, THE RIDER, WHITNEY and more.
Altitude’s recent releases include PIG starring Nicolas Cage, TIFF award-winning NIGHT OF THE KINGS from Philippe Lacôte, TINA from directors Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin, Russell Crowe thriller UNHINGED, Ladj Ly’s Academy-Award nominated LES MISÉRABLES, Nick Rowland’s critically acclaimed CALM WITH HORSES, HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE MOVIE – ROTTEN ROMANS, Jonah Hill’s MID90S and Brian Welsh’s BEATS.  In September 2020 Altitude partnered with the WWF on the global event release of DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE ON OUR PLANET, which became the widest ever released documentary in the UK and Ireland.
Forthcoming releases include Palme D’Or winner TITANE from writer and director Julia Ducournau, THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN from BAFTA nominees Peter Middleton and James Spinney, Blerta Basholli’s acclaimed HIVE, SILENT NIGHT starring Keira Knightley, Clio Barnard’s ALI & AVA, feature documentary DIANA from Academy-Award nominee Ed Perkins, Ari Folman’s WHERE IS ANNE FRANK, TED K. starring Sharlto Copley and Oliver Stone’s JFK REVISITED: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.