ThinkFilm Gets "Bomb"

In Cannes today, ThinkFilm announced its acquisition of Steven Silver and Andrew Quigley's "Diameter of the Bomb", a film described as "focusing on a suicide bomb that shook Jerusalem one summer morning in June 2002." The Cannes Market title includes forensic footage, Hamas military video, and home movies, as well as unprecedented access inside prisons, commando units refugee camps and hospitals.

ThinkFilm VP of Acquisitions Daniel Katz negotiated the dealwith Heather Wyer, Head of International Sales for the National Film Board of Canada. The company plans to release the movie next year. It was co-produced by Rainmaker Films (Paul Goldin and Georgina Townsley, UK) and the NFB (Éric Michel and Claude Bonin), with support from the World Doc Fund established by the NFB, the UK Film Council and the BBC.

Posted by eug on May 15, 2005 at 02:58PM | Categories: Biz