SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA – November 9, 2015 (Gephardt Daily) — According to Variety, Content Media has sold international distribution rights for the Janis Joplin documentary, “Janis: Little Girl Blue” at this week’s American Film Market.
The company, which has been selling distribution rights at the American Film Market this week, sold to Australia/NZ (Transmission); Benelux (VPRO & Periscoop/FU Works); France (Happiness Distribution); Germany/Austria (Arsenal); Italy (I-Wonder); Japan (Medallion Media); Mexico (Star Castle Distribution); Russia (Channel 1); Spain (Avalon); Sweden (SVT); and the U.K. (BBC and Dogwoof).
FilmRise acquired U.S. distribution rights last month. The film’s world premiere took place at the Venice Film Festival.
“Janis: Little Girl Blue” is directed and written by Amy Berg (“Deliver Us From Evil”) and produced by Alex Gibney (“Going Clear”), Berg, Jeffrey Jampol and Katherine LeBlond.
The film includes Chan Marshall reading Joplin’s own letters to her family and lovers, and footage of Joplin performing at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, Woodstock in 1969 and Festival Express in 1970, shortly before her death of a drug overdose that year.
The film includes interviews with Joplin’s family, friends and rock star contemporaries.
FilmRise will release the film in theaters in New York on November 27 and in Los Angeles and additional cities early December.
France, Germany, Poland, the U.K. and Japan have set release dates in the first quarter.
The American Film Market (AFM) is a film industry event held each year at the beginning of November in Santa Monica, California.
About 8,000 people attend the eight day event to network and to sell, finance and acquire films. Participants come from more than 70 countries and include acquisition and development executives, agents, attorneys, directors, distributors, festival directors, financiers, film commissioners, producers, writers, etc.
Founded in 1981, the AFM quickly became one of the premier global marketplaces for the film business, where unlike a film festival, production and distribution deals are the main focus of the participants.
