Toronto: Sundance Selects Lands U . s . States Rights To Trishna

EXCLUSIVE: IFC’s Sundance Selects has acquired U . s . States rights to Trishna, the Michael Winterbottom-directed drama that stars Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed. It has been an energetic 24 several hours for Jonathan Sehring and Arianna Bocco, who add this deal to yesterday’s IFC purchases in the Lynn Shelton-directed Toronto title Your Sister’s Sister as well as the gory Evening time Madness title The Incident, together with the Abel Ferrara-directed Last Day in the world. A contemporized version of Thomas Hardys Tess in the DUrbervilles, it's occur modern-day Rajasthan, where Trishna (Pinto) meets a wealthy Brit businessman (Ahmed) who involves India to use within the father’s hotel business. They fall crazily for each other, but social conflicts which get in the way. Winterbottom and Melissa Parmenter produced, and Bankside Films is handling worldwide sales. This marks IFC’s fourth film with Winterbottom and fifth with Revolution Films previous pictures are the Red-colored-colored Riding trilogy, Shock Doctrine, The Killer Inside Me as well as the Trip. Bankside brokered the sale. “Trishna is Michael Winterbottom’s most incredible and sensual film having a really sublime performance by Freida Pinto,” Sundance Selects’ leader Sehring mentioned.