SUPER LTD Acquires North American Rights to Theo Anthony’s “ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE”
Provocative and Timely Documentary Won Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Experimentation
NEW YORK, NY | February 17, 2020 – SUPER LTD, the boutique division and incubator from NEON, have acquired North American rights to Theo Anthony’s All Light, Everywhere, which made its World Premiere to critical acclaim in the U.S. Documentary Competition section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Experimentation. Written, directed, and edited by Anthony, the film is a MEMORY production in association with Sandbox Films, produced by Riel Roch-Decter and Sebastian Pardo for MEMORY, and Jonna McKone. It is executive produced by Greg Boustead and Jessica Harrop for Sandbox Films. It features an original score by Dan Deacon.
All Light, Everywhere is an exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens. Roger Ebert said All Light, Everywhere is a “vital criticism about American policing”, with the New Yorker describing it as “a film of individual and immediate fascinations”, and the Hollywood Reporter adding it is “a brilliant and chilling study in watching the watchers”.
Ayo Kepher-Maat and Jeff Deutchman negotiated the deal for SUPER LTD with CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers. Autlook is handling international rights.
All Light, Everywhere marks Theo Anthony’s sophomore feature following Rat Film, which received critical acclaim following its premiere at the Locarno and True/ False Film Festivals, and was nominated for a 2017 Gotham Award for Best Documentary Feature film as well as Cinema Eye Honors for Best Debut Feature.
SUPER LTD recently acquired master director Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno, Italy’s official submission for this year’s Academy Awards® which was shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature. Super LTD’s principals Darcy Heusel and Dan O’Meara were the team behind NEON’s Honeyland, which was the first non-fiction feature to land Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary and Best International Feature Film in the same year, and Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda which was also shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature.
SUPER LTD
SUPER LTD is a boutique label and incubator focused on films and release strategies that seize upon the political and cultural moment. SUPER LTD’s debut film was Anthony Bourdain’s Wasted: The Story of Food Waste. The company also partnered with NEON on Tamara Kotevska and Ljubo Stefanov’s award-winning and record-breaking Honeyland. Its slate also includes: Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno, Italy’s official submission for this year’s Academy Awards® which was shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature, David Darg and Price James’ wildly entertaining and poignant documentary, You Cannot Kill David Arquette, Jack Bryan’s Active Measures, and Gene Graham’s This One’s for the Ladies.
MEMORY
MEMORY is an independent artist-driven motion picture studio specializing in producing and curating innovative, thought-provoking works that push the formal boundaries of their medium. Focused on discovering and mentoring new diverse voices, MEMORY creates and showcases these new compositions on and off-line.
Sebastian Pardo and Riel Roch-Decter founded MEMORY at the start of 2014 and together have produced and distributed award-winning fiction and non-fiction films, as well as having curated and hosted film related events. These projects have premiered in renowned international festivals such as Venice, Berlinale, Sundance, IFFRotterdam, Locarno, NYFF, TIFF, SXSW, True / False, and AFI Fest. The films have played at prestigious institutions such as MoMA PS1, Tate Modern, MOCA, Gavin Brown Enterprise, ICA Miami, Lincoln Center, and the Harvard Film Archive, while MEMORY has hosted events at New York’s Metrograph Theater, the Sundance Film Festival, Phi Centre, The Underground Museum and Montreal’s Museum of Art.
MEMORY has collaborated with multi-hyphenate filmmakers and artists to bring their debut films to fruition, such as: Celia Rowlson-Hall’s MA, Carson Mell’s ANOTHER EVIL, Dean Fleischer-Camp’s FRAUD, Theo Anthony’s RAT FILM, Leilah Weinraub’s SHAKEDOWN, Marnie Ellen Hertzler’s CRESTONE and Zia Anger’s MY FIRST FILM project. In 2016 MEMORY was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, and in 2017 their film RAT FILM, by Theo Anthony, was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary Feature. Most recently the founders were awarded the 2020 Cinereach Producing Award for their work.
More at: www.memory.is
SANDBOX FILMS
Sandbox Films is a documentary studio that illuminates the art and beauty of scientific inquiry: humankind’s weird, messy, brilliant way of navigating the world. We’re a nimble film company that brings together clashing viewpoints, industries, and approaches. We collaborate with production partners and visionary filmmakers around the world, providing co-production and financing opportunities for bold documentaries.
More at sandboxfilms.org