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Shudder/IFC Films Ink Distribution Deal With Severin Films, Fantastic Latido Award Goes to Witchcraft Drama ‘Ancestral’ (EXCLUSIVE)


Genre business hub Fantastic Pavilion announced a slew of deals closed at Cannes, starting with LA-based Severin Films and Shudder and IFC.

The deal was brokered by Severin Film’s co-founder-CEO David Gregory, Shudder’s Vice President of Programming Sam Zimmerman, and AMC Networks Director of Content Sales Lucas Verga. The second feature co-helmed by Cabrera and Aragüés after fantasy thriller “Homeowners” (“Para entrar a vivir”), “Ancestral” revolves around Carla who returns to her hometown where she finds that only her mother and a group of women seem to be living there. Fantastic Pavilion participants included production companies, streamers, broadcasters, sales agents and distributors as well as key buyers led by ARTE, BTF Media, CMG, Inter Medya, Latido, Manticora, MPI, Playmaker, Severine, Shudder and Utopia among others.

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