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It’s fitting that Masters of Horror wouldn’t exist without Mick Garris. As the series creator and producer, it was Garris who dreamed up the idea to have his friends and colleagues in the genre direct episodes of a new anthology series with total creative freedom. But going all the way back to his days as a publicist in the late 1970s and early ’80s, Garris was shining a light on horror and horror directors with his Z Channel interview show. It’s from this show that the legendary panel interview with John Landis, John Carpenter, and Mick Garris comes. Though he would go on to become a hugely successful filmmaker and author in his own right, Garris has always been the one to keep the home fires of horror burning, all the way up to his current Post Mortem podcast, a regular conversation with the biggest and most influential names in the genre.

The distributor will release in the Us and license to world airlines following a deal in Toronto with eOne Films International.

Le Démantèlement screened in the festival’s Contemporary World Cinema strand and tells of a sheep farmer who sells his property to help his daughter in the big city.

Review: Le Démantèlement

Sebastien directed the French-Canadian film and Gabriel Arcand, Gilles Renaud, Lucie Laurier and Sophie Desmarais star.

Le Démantèlement screened in Critics Week in Cannes and won the Sacd Prize.

Film Movement has acquired U.S. rights and world airline rights to “Le Demantelement” from Entertainment One, the latter company announced on Wednesday. The film, which screened in Toronto this past week, recently won the Sacd Prize in Cannes. It stars Gabriel Arcand, Gilles Renaud, Lucie Laurier and Sophie Desmarais and was directed by Sébastien Pilote. The story follows Gaby, a farmer rearing beautiful lambs on his family property, La Ferme Gagnon. His two daughters, raised like princesses, live far away in the big city. When the eldest asks for money to avoid the loss of her home, Gaby decides to liquidate his beloved.

Toronto -- Entertainment One has sold Sebastien Pilote's Le Demantelement to Film Movement for the U.S. market. The U.S. distributor also picked up the global airline rights to the Gabriel Arcand-starrer that won the Sacd prize in Cannes before screening at the Toronto Film Festival this week. The French-language family drama follows a man who sells his farm after his daughter in the big city asks for money to avoid losing her home. Le Demantelement also stars Gilles Renaud, Lucie Laurier and Sophie Desmarais. "We are so happy to be working with eOne again on a truly

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Director Dominique Othenin-Girard's 2008 French feature "L'Infiltré" (aka "Dirty Money"),will be available on DVD, April 19, 2011 from eOne :

"...'Dirty Money' , follows a Swiss policeman who infiltrates an international money laundering business, moving millions of Swiss Francs between Switzerland and Turkey.

" The dark thriller is an uncompromising account of money laundering and white-collar crime..."

Cast includes actors Antoine Basler, David La Haye, Lucie Laurier, Uygar Tamer, Rosalie Julien, Pascal Vincent, Carlos Leal, Michel Voita, Andrea Ferreol, Jf Stevinin, Alexandra Tiedemann, Caroline Gasser and Teco Celio.

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