Participant Partners With NEON to Co-Distribute Sundance Winner ‘Flee’

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Theo Anthony’s documentary All Light, Everywhere, which took home the Special Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Experimentation at the Sundance Film Festival, has been picked by NEON’s boutique division SUPER LTD. The distributor has taken the pic’s North American rights.

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Participant, which is known for bolstering positive social change, has partnered with Neon for the North American distribution of Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary Flee. The film recently made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Neon acquired the film after its debut. 30WEST and Cinephil brokered the acquisition deal on behalf of the filmmakers.

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Neon has picked up Jamila Wignot’s documentary Ailey, about dance and choreography legend Alvin Ailey, after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The deal is Neon's second at Sundance after it nabbed the North American rights to Flee, an animated doc from Jonas Poher Rasmussen that counts Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as executive producers.

In a seven-figure deal, Neon has acquired the North American rights to Sundance title Flee, an animated doc fromJonasPoher Rasmussen that counts Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as executive producers.

Outside episodic television, adult animation is seldom procured at studios in the U.S. Still, the medium has found stateside keepers of mature content among independent creators.

Neon has made the first acquisition out of this year’s Sundance, with North American rights to Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee in what is an undisclosed seven-figure sum after an overnight bidding war.

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