07/05/2014 - Content Media enters Dark Summer

High Point, the UK-based specialist in global sales, marketing, financing and production of commercially driven feature films and prime time television programming, will represent Michael McDowell’s Thank You Very Much Mr Eastwood, about the fallout between world boxing champion Barry McGuigan and his manager Barney Eastwood, at the Cannes Market. The film is currently casting. 

High Point’s other Market titles include Drown, Dean Francis’ intense portrayal of homophobia and sexual awakening in Sydney; and Sanne Vogel’s hit feel-good romantic comedy from The Netherlands, Heart Street [+see also:
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Executives from High Point attending include Managing Director Carey Fitzgerald, Non-Executive Chairman Ronald de Neef, Director/COO Julie Delaney, Senior Territory Manager Kevin Law and Director of Acquisitions Piers Nightingale.

Meanwhile, London and Los Angeles based Content Media Corporation will represent Paul Solet’s supernatural terror Dark Summer, starring Peter Stormare and Grace Phipps; Alistair Legrand’s horror film The Diabolical, starring Ali Larter and Patrick Fischler; Nick Moore’s Pudsey: The Movie, about the dog that won Britain’s Got Talent, starring Olivia Colman and David Walliams; and Emilis Velyvis’ action comedy Redirected, starring Vinnie Jones and Scot Williams.

Content executives attending include Jamie Carmichael – President, Harry White – Head of Sales, Kevin Adege – Sales Manager, Toby Melling – VP Sales, Television and Home Entertainment, Judith Baugin – Head of International Marketing, Libby D’Arcy – VP of Business Affairs and Paige Feldman – Acquisitions Coordinator.