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Exclusive: Parkland will introduce thriller to buyers at the Efm.

London-based Parkland Pictures has taken worldwide sales rights on Martin Stitt’s feature debut Love Me Do and will introduce the film to buyers at the Efm later this week.

Produced by Island Peak Films, Love Me Do stars Rebecca Calder (Youth) and Jack Gordon (A Royal Night Out) as a city-trader and an out-of-work actor who find their romantic relationship distorted as they both battle personal demons.

The film marks the feature debut of director Stitt, who was Bifa-nominated for his 2007 short film What Does Your Daddy Do? Stitt also penned the screenplay, while Ian Prior of Scala Productions produced the project.

Love Me Do premiered at London’s Raindance Film Festival in September 2015. It also played at the 2016 Idyllwild International Film Festival in California, where it was awarded Best Foreign Film.

The film is screening at the Berlin Independent Film Festival (Feb 11-17).

Raindance Film Festival kicks off next week with a wide array of features and shorts. Among the films in competition for Best UK Feature is the thriller Love/Me/Do, the first fiction feature by Martin Stitt. A veteran of both actual wars and the war that is the financial world, Stitt started in filmmaking about 10 years ago, and his shorts have played some big festivals, including Sundance and Venice.For his first foray into a longer fiction film, Stitt entered that land mine-laden world of love and sex, and how trust can be found through good deeds, but perhaps as often, through bad ones. Antonia (Sarah Calder, Youth), an investment banker with a troubled past, and Max (Jack Gordon, Northern Soul), an out-of-work actor, are an odd...

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Kids. Such as Sex, Lies, and Videotape or Reservoir Dogs before it, and such as Winter’s Bone, Blue Valentine and Fruitvale Station after it, Larry Clark & Harmony Korine’s seminal film is forever connected in “spirit” to the lieu where it received its secret midnight premiere screening in 1995. The Sundance Film Festival might be known as the birthplace of U.S indie filmmaking innovation, avant-gardism, a larger definition of the low budgeted film response to Hollywood in not only narrative but in the non-fiction form, but it is a festival made strong by its renewal and familiarity. That close acquaintanceness exists in Kids‘ starlets Rosario Dawson and Chloë Sevigny filmography/career path trajectory and connection to Park City (both have several indie films slated for ’14 – of which I’ve included in our predictions list) and it is that “familiarity” that is visibly noticeable in how I map out my annual predictions list.

A total of 12 projects selected for training addressing the changing face of distribution.Scroll down for full list of projects

Film London has revealed the 12 projects participating in Audience on Demand, the training and mentorship programme addressing the changing face of feature film distribution.

Details of the successful film-makers and projects were unveiled at The Future of Independent Distribution event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which featured a case study on Film London Microwave’s Borrowed Time, currently preparing for a self funded direct distribution UK release on August 16.

Audience on Demand, funded by Creative Skillset and run in partnership with Creative England, is a three-month pilot programme that mixes classroom and one-on-one sessions alongside dedicated mentoring from top industry experts.

For emerging UK talent with a completed first or second feature, a key aspect of the programme is a marketing and distribution plan created by Iris Lamprecht (Film Tiki). This enables the participating teams to develop...