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Distributor plans early 2022 release.

Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired US rights from Vanishing Angle at the Cannes Marché to SXSW selection and LGBTQ+ drama See You Then.

The film follows Kris, who, a decade after abruptly breaking up with Naomi, invites her to dinner to catch-up on their lives, relationships, and Kris’s transition.

Iranian-American actress and trans rights activist Pooya Mohseni, and Taiwanese-American actress and singer Lynn Chen star. Mari Walker makes her feature directorial debut.

Vanishing Angle president Matt Miller produced with Mia Schulman, Kristen Uno, and Walker. Executive producers include Bobbi Walker, David Walker, and John Jeffrey Martin of DiffeRant Productions.

IFC FIlms holds US rights.

Buyers in the UK, France and Canada have acquired rights to Jim Cummings’ recent Berlin Encounters selection The Beta Test.

Benjamin Wiesnner of Los Angeles-based production company Vanishing Angle negotiated the deals with Blue Finch in the UK, New Story in France, and Vortex Media in Canada.

The horror thriller centres on a Hollywood agent who gets sucked into a world of sexual infidelity and mysterious streams of digital data.

It recently sold to IFC Films for the US and is expected to launch in the US and the first wave of international markets in autumn.

Jim Cummings’ thriller “The Beta Test” has been acquired by IFC Films.

Cummings wrote, directed and stars in the film that was an official selection for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. IFC will distribute the film theatrically, on digital platforms and on demand this fall.

“The Beta Test” follows an enraged Hollywood agent who received a letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes trapped in a world of lying and infidelity. Pj McCabe, Virginia Newcomb, Kevin Changaris, Olivia Grace Applegate, Jessie Barr, Keith Powell, Joy Sunday, Wilkey Lau, Malin Barr and Christian Hillborg also star.

“IFC has partnered with the boldest and most insanely talented filmmakers in history, Armando Iannucci, Paolo Sorrentino, Andrea Arnold, and hundreds of others and then they let us just ruin it in 2021,” Cummings said in a statement to TheWrap. “This movie was financed independently through a crowd-equity platform called WeFunder, we produced it independently,...

IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to “The Beta Test,” a new digital-age thriller that was written, directed by and starring Jim Cummings and Pj McCabe.

The film was an official selection for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. IFC will release “The Beta Test” theatrically, on digital platforms and on demand later this fall. The film centers on an engaged Hollywood agent, who receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity and digital data.

“I cannot wait for everybody to see this movie, it is so much fun,” Cummings said. “We raised the budget through crowd-equity, we shot the film with our friends, we edited and finished the film from our homes. Our audience helped make this wild, beautiful film possible and we are anxious to get to share it with people. I can’t think...

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