EXCLUSIVE: UK outfit Lightbulb Film Distribution has picked up three Sundance movies out of the Cannes market.
From Paris-based WTFilms, the company has acquired Touch Me (pictured above), the psychosexual horror-comedy which premiered at Sundance Midnight and then played SXSW.
Written and directed by Addison Heimann (Hypochondriac), Rustic Films’ duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Something In The Dirt) serve as executive producers on the film starring Olivia Taylor Dudley (The Magicians) and Lou Taylor Pucci (Moon Manor). The movie sees best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist, who may or may not be trying to take over the world.
Lightbulb has also added Grace Glowicki’s Sundance Midnight title Dead Lover to their line-up. Written, directed by and starring Glowicki (Booger), the film stars Ben Petrie, Leah Doz and Lowen Morrow in numerous roles.
In Dead Lover, a lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind romance is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him. The deal was negotiated with Yellow Veil Pictures.
Albert Birney’s fantasy adventure Obex, co-written with Pete Ohs (The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick), sees Birney (Strawberry Mansion) star alongside Frank Mosley (Rent Free) and Callie Hernandez (Jethica).
The synopsis reads: “Conor Marsh lives a secluded life. After playing a computer game called Obex, his dog Sandy disappears and the lines between reality and fantasy blur.”
The deal was negotiated with Lorna Lee Torres of Magnolia Pictures.
