NonStop hooks up with Warp X
by Annika Pham
Pan-Scandinavian distribution group NonStop Entertainment, which has three films selected at the Berlinale, announced yesterday a groundbreaking alliance with Warp X – the UK-based innovative digital film studio behind, among other titles, This Is England [+see also:
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The long-term deal will give NonStop first-look options on Warp X films for distribution in the Nordic and Baltic countries. “We have a very similar profile to Warp X and over the years of working together, with titles such as This is England and Donkey Punch [+see also:
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Warp X is the low budget feature film scheme set up four years ago by the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund with Film4, in collaboration with Screen Yorkshire and Optimum Releasing, to revitalise low budget films in the UK. The next Warp X films to be released by NonStop is Mark Tonderai’s Hush.
In Berlin, Non Stop has distribution rights to Rebecca Miller’s The Private Life of Pippa Lee, showing out of competition; US rock documentary It Might Get Loud, screening Tuesday as a Berlinale Special Gala; and Forum title Burrowing [+see also:
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