Artsploitation Scores Observance and Blue Family from Shoreline
Steve Barton
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More distro news has arrived from the good folks over at Artsploitation Films, who have just picked up the rights to thrillers Observance and Blue Family. Read on for stills, trailers, and more details.
From the Press Release:
Artsploitation Films has announced the acquisition of two English-language films – Observance and Blue Family – from Shoreline Entertainment. The deals are for all rights for North America. Artsploitation plans early 2016 releases for both titles.
Polanski’s The Tenant meets Hitchcock’s Rear Window in the claustrophobic psychological thriller Observance, which is coming off a festival run that included Fantasia, where it had its World Premiere; Vancouver International; and London Film Festivals. Directed by Joseph Sims-Dennett (Bad Behaviour), the Australian production stars Lindsay Farris (Primal, Bad Behaviour), Stephanie King (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries), and John Jarratt (Wolf Creek, Django Unchained) and involves an emotionally fragile private detective whose world is gradually upended as he observes a woman from an abandoned apartment.
Blue Family is an American production co-written, co-directed, and starring Guillermo Ivan as a pleasant young car salesman who harbors a terrifying secret – he has kidnapped three women and keeps them locked up in his basement.
Artsploitation’s Ray Murray, who negotiated the deal with Sam Eigen of Shoreline, says, “I am excited about these two very dissimilar thrillers. Observance is a visually surreal and disturbing tale of a man’s mental deterioration while Blue Family upends the familiar ‘women held captive’ dramas with a story of unexpected humor and characters one can relate to.”
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