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U.K. Indie Film Distribution Hits Breaking Point as ‘Santosh’ Saga Exposes Market Crisis: It’s an ‘Utter S—-show’
Acclaimed, award winning arthouse and foreign language films like 'Santosh' are struggling to find U.K. distributors, with a number of factors at play
Indeed, there was eleventh hour race against the clock in early December to get a deal over the line in order to make the BAFTA submission date, Vertigo Releasing eventually coming on board having teamed with Indian banner Civic Studios. “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” the Zambian-language sophomore feature from BAFTA nominee Rungano Nyoni following her critically acclaimed debut “I Am Not a Witch” (the U.K.’s Oscar submission in 2018) was one of the buzziest and best-received films in Cannes, and in years gone by would likely have been acquired before the festival even began. For Zygi Kamasa, the former Lionsgate UK head who last year launched distribution and production banner True Brit Entertainment, the U.K. market has fallen into two camps, with the arthouse and foreign language sector — which heavily relied on ancillary revenues that are now no longer there — definitely the one that is struggling.
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