Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to “I Am Here,” a documentary about 100-year-old Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal which recently won the Jury Prize at the Durban Film Festival.
Directed by Jordy Sank, “I Am Here” tells Blumenthal’s incredible life story, starting with her youth in Poland during World War II, where she witnessed the Warsaw ghetto uprising and was a prisoner in the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. Shot as Blumenthal celebrated her 98th birthday with family and friends in South Africa, the film uses evocative, hand-drawn animation to illustrate stories from her life.
Blue Fox will release “I Am Here” theatrically in early 2022. Metro International, who is handling worldwide sales on the film, negotiated the deal with Blue Fox. Metro has also concluded deals with Kismet Movies in Australia/New Zealand, where the film will have a theatrical run at the end of the year,...
Directed by Jordy Sank, “I Am Here” tells Blumenthal’s incredible life story, starting with her youth in Poland during World War II, where she witnessed the Warsaw ghetto uprising and was a prisoner in the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. Shot as Blumenthal celebrated her 98th birthday with family and friends in South Africa, the film uses evocative, hand-drawn animation to illustrate stories from her life.
Blue Fox will release “I Am Here” theatrically in early 2022. Metro International, who is handling worldwide sales on the film, negotiated the deal with Blue Fox. Metro has also concluded deals with Kismet Movies in Australia/New Zealand, where the film will have a theatrical run at the end of the year,...
- 8/5/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The film depicts 98-year-old Ella Blumenthal.
UK-based sales firm Metro International Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Jordy Sank’s documentary I Am Here, about the life of Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal.
Metro will launch sales on the title at next week’s online European Film Market.
The South African film is produced by Gabriella Blumberg and Sank of Sanktuary Films, with financial backing from Claims Conference, an organisation that provides reparation for Jewish Holocaust victims. Claims Conference previously backed Lázló Nemes’ 2016 Oscar best foreign language film winner Son Of Saul.
The film is centred around Blumenthal’s 98th birthday,...
UK-based sales firm Metro International Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Jordy Sank’s documentary I Am Here, about the life of Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal.
Metro will launch sales on the title at next week’s online European Film Market.
The South African film is produced by Gabriella Blumberg and Sank of Sanktuary Films, with financial backing from Claims Conference, an organisation that provides reparation for Jewish Holocaust victims. Claims Conference previously backed Lázló Nemes’ 2016 Oscar best foreign language film winner Son Of Saul.
The film is centred around Blumenthal’s 98th birthday,...
- 2/26/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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