21/05/2015 - CANNES 2015: The UK’s leading documentary distributor has been selling Frédéric Tcheng’s Dior and I very successfully at the market

It has been a very busy and fruitful Cannes Film Market for Dogwoof, the UK’s leading documentary distributor, says Ana Vicente, head of international theatrical sales. The hit documentary Dior and I [+see also:
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“This is the first time one of our documentaries has been released in so many countries and has racked up great results at the box office everywhere,” adds Vicente. It has been a hit in the USA (US distributor Orchard expects to take $1 million at the box office), the UK, Australia and New Zealand, where it is currently at $800,000. In Japan ($500,000 at the box office, which is predicted to rise to $700,000) and Hong Kong, it has performed better than Yves Saint Laurent [+see also:
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film profile].

The other countries that the doc has been sold to are Taiwan, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Russia and Spain. “It has been selected by The TIDE Experiment, the MEDIA-supported project that gives European distributors support for promotion and marketing for day-and-date release strategies. It will land in 80 theatres in Italy next week, followed by Germany, Belgium, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal and the Czech Republic.”

Dogwoof has also been selling Cartel Land well at Cannes, a US-Mexican co-production that won the Best Director Award and the Special Jury Award for Cinematography for a US Documentary at Sundance 2015. It has been acquired by DCM for German-speaking territories in Europe, by Canal Plus and Zylo in France, and by Madman Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand.