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CANNES MARKET 2007 UK

The Plague on High Point’s line-up

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London-based High Point Films has just picked up world rights outside the UK for urban drama The Plague [+see also:
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by up-and-coming UK filmmaker Greg Hall.

Set in London’s inner city against a landspace of police wagons and estate blocks, the film is an uncompromising drama following four teenagers caught in the dysfunctional cycle of their disenfranchised lives. Funded by Hall on his graduate loan for just £3,500, the film was shot on mini-DV in less than three weeks.

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Pioneering UK director Mike Leigh who discovered the film a couple of years ago at a preview, has described it as “serious, funny, real, surreal and totally anarchic”. Acting like a godfather, he supported the film’s release in the UK last October and expressed delight that The Plague is now getting a chance internationally.

“It is exactly this sort of edgy, independent, innovative fare so many of our buyers are crying out for”, said Elisar Cabrera, High Point’s Theatrical Sales and Marketing Director.

The sales company, part of the High Point Media Group, will also screen at the Cannes market the Dutch/Belgian film Dennis P. by Pieter Kuijpers, and will discuss two other features: the Australian comedy 48 Shades and the Belgian/Dutch action film Storm Force 10 by Hans Herbots.

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