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Visit Films Acquires Worldwide Sales Rights to Locarno Competition Title ‘Electric Child,’ First-Look Clip Debuts (EXCLUSIVE)


Visit Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to Simon Jaquemet's 'Electric Child,' which world premieres at Locarno Film Festival in competition.

New York-based Visit Films has acquired worldwide sales rights, excluding German-speaking Europe, Benelux and the Philippines, to “Electric Child” from Swiss writer-director Simon Jaquemet. “Electric Child” tells the story of a father’s desperate attempt to help his newborn son by going far outside moral norms and into dangerously uncharted territory when he appropriates and reengineers a high-level, superpower AI simulation at his work. “Electric Child” stars Elliott Crosset Hove (“Godland,” 2019; “Winter Brothers,” 2017), and Rila Fukushima (“Ghost in the Shell,” 2017; “Game of Thrones,” 2015; “The Wolverine,” 2013).

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