Good Deed Leisure has acquired worldwide rights to Hangdog, a comedy film starring Desmin Borges and Kelly O’Sullivan.
Director Matt Cascella’s function is scheduled for launch through digital platforms on Oct. 25, which will likely be preceded by advance theatrical screenings in choose cities. Rounding out the forged are Barbara Rosenblat, Steve Coulter, Catherine Curtin and rescue dog-turned-performer Mr. Tibbs.
Set in Portland, Maine, Hangdog facilities on Walt (Borges), who offers with nervousness whereas making an attempt to retrieve his stolen canine earlier than his girlfriend, Wendy (O’Sullivan), returns from a enterprise journey.
The movie earned viewers awards on the Woods Gap and New Hampshire Movie Festivals. It has additionally screened on the Provincetown Worldwide Movie Competition, the Berkshire Worldwide Movie Competition and the Calgary Worldwide Movie Competition.
Cascella helmed the movie from a script by Jen Cordery. Cascella, Borges, Alyssa Roehrenbeck and Patrick White function producers.
“Matt and Jen have crafted an enthralling and fascinating grown-up movie in Hangdog, and it’s our pleasure to be part of bringing this crowdpleaser to audiences nationwide this October,” mentioned GDE head of acquisitions and distribution Erik Donley in a press release.
Government producer Jamieson Shea of Owl Tree Productions oversaw the deal for the filmmakers, whereas Donley negotiated for the distributor.
“After a heat reception at movie festivals for our humanist comedy about nervousness and connection (each the human and canine varieties), we’re so excited to associate with GDE, a studio with a confirmed observe report of championing impartial filmmakers, to carry Hangdog to a wider viewers,” Cascella and Cordery mentioned in a joint assertion.
Borges recurs on the present season of Solely Murders within the Constructing and is thought for starring on You’re the Worst. O’Sullivan’s latest credit embrace Ghostlight and Cha Cha Actual Easy.