EXCLUSIVE: Former Dogwoof exec Luke Brawley‘s specialist non-fiction company Indox has added two new titles, each from debut administrators, to its present slate.
Indox will deal with the worldwide competition rights to Max Keegan’s function The Shepherd and the Bear and rep UK & Eire on There Was, There Was Not by filmmaker Emily Mkrtichian.
Produced by Elizabeth Woodward (One other Physique) alongside directorial duo Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss (Women State), The Shepherd and the Bear closed this yr’s Camden Worldwide Movie Competition and can display screen subsequent at IDFA. Set within the majestic French Pyrenees, the movie addresses the battle between heritage and modernity because the reintroduction of brown bears collides head first with a standard shepherding group.
“We’re delighted to be working with Luke to convey The Shepherd and The Bear to competition audiences the world over,” Keegan stated in an announcement this morning. “The manufacturing of this movie has been a deeply emotional and intensive course of for the whole crew. In Indox we imagine we’ve discovered a accomplice that may apply the identical stage of rigor to our competition run.”
There Was, There Was Not was produced by Brock Williams (On Her Shoulders) and Mara Adina (Chuck Norris vs Communism) and can sit below Indox’s native strand, overlaying the UK and Eire. The movie debuted on the True/False Movie Fest doc fest in Columbia, Missouri, and gained the FIPRESCI Prize and a jury point out at Armenia’s Golden Apricot Movie Competition.
Described as “highly effective and visually placing,” Mkrtichian’s movie follows the lives of 4 girls on the precipice and aftermath of a shock invasion of Artsakh, an autonomous republic between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which was dissolved in 2023 following a sudden warfare.
“It’s thrilling to be included amongst Indox’s choose record of movies, all of which converse to our present second in profound and inventive methods,” Mkrtichian advised us this morning. “We stay up for working collectively to convey this story to European audiences.”
Brawley added: “I’m thrilled to announce the addition of one other title to our worldwide lineup, in addition to our native choice, particularly contemplating each titles are from debut function administrators. Indox stays dedicated to supporting the most effective in non-fiction and serving to these tales attain a broader viewers and we’re excited to proceed doing so in versatile methods, concentrating on viewers each internationally and throughout the UK and Eire.”
