EXCLUSIVE: Asia-focused manufacturing, financing and gross sales outfit EST Studios has acquired worldwide gross sales rights to Canneseries choice Streams Flow From A River, produced by Canada’s Fae Pictures.
Created by Christopher Yip, the English-language sequence is premiering within the Canneseries Short Form Competition at MipTV.
The sequence follows the struggles of a Chinese-Canadian immigrant household, who dream of proudly owning land and place their bets on a laundromat in a tiny rural city in Alberta, Canada. When a freak snowstorm traps the dysfunctional household collectively, they’re pressured to confront occasions from a decade in the past that tore all of them aside.
The ensemble solid consists of veteran Chinese-Canadian actors Jane Luk and Simon Sinn; rising stars Liam Ma and Danielle Ayow; Canadian TV actor Jinny Wong; Hong Kong-Canadian actor Raymond Chan, and newcomers Dana Liu and Adrian So.
The sequence additionally options performances from Indigenous actors Wesley French (Tribal) and Colton Clause (Three Pines), in addition to Brett Houghton (Zero Chill) and Benjamin Sutherland (The Kings Of Napa).
Produced by Fae Pictures’ Shant Joshi (Framing Agnes), Lindsay Blair Goeldner, Abdul Malik and Lauren Saarimaki, the sequence is backed by the Independent Production Fund, Bell Fund, Ontario Creates and Canadian broadcaster Super Channel.
The deal for worldwide gross sales was brokered by Joshi and EST Studios’ Tenten Wei and Juefang Zhang. EST Studios will introduce the six-episode short-form sequence, which can also be being offered as a characteristic movie, to consumers on the upcoming Cannes Marché du Film subsequent month.
Joshi mentioned: “On our mission to decolonize Hollywood and bring dynamic global-facing content to audiences, we couldn’t have been happier to team up with EST Studios, a media company that is unapologetically championing the voice of global Asian youth throughout the diaspora.”
Fae Pictures additionally produced Pakistani Urdu-language horror movie, In Flames, which has been chosen for Directors Fortnight at this 12 months’s Cannes movie competition.
Founded Jaeson Ma and Eric Tu, EST Studios can also be dealing with worldwide gross sales on Sundance 2022 alternatives Maika, which premiered in Sundance’s Kids part, and Every Day In Kaimuki. It has additionally produced Okay-Pops!, directed by rapper Anderson .Paak, and documentary Hidden Letters, which premiered at Tribeca in 2022.
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