Cannes Market Dailies

KISS KISS

SYNOPSIS: Four best friends embark on a luxurious wine tasting and soon find themselves fighting for their lives.

KEY SELLING POINTS: Action packed, fighting and eroticism. Starring MMA fighters.

FIXED

SYNOPSIS: Allan is a father of three whose sex life takes another hit when his wife can no longer take the pill and he soon finds himself with an appointment for a vasectomy and an epic midlife crisis.

KEY SELLING POINTS: An extremely funny look at marriage and parenthood as “the raw, loud, sticky, scary mess of hilarious human emotions that it is.” Starring Andy Comeau (Huff, One Hour Photo) and Courtney Henggeler (Mom, The Big Bang Theory.)

CRY HAVOC

SYNOPSIS: An ambitious reporter is given an exclusive interview with one of the FBI’s Most Wanted. She travels to a secret compound to meet the wealthy Voyeur who is suspected of having paid to secure the release of the psychotic serial killer known only as “Havoc”…

KEY SELLING POINTS: Action packed and terrifying! Starring Emily Sweet (Fear PHarm) and Robert Bronzi (the Charles Bronson lookalike in From Hell to the Wild West and Death Kiss).

INTERVIEWING MONSTERS

SYNOPSIS: Cory Mathis (Les Stroud), a respected college professor, claims a mythical forest creature killed his wife transforming him into a man haunted by obsession and revenge. He partners up with legendary Big Foot hunter Fran Andersen (Stacy Brown Jr.) who is out to collect the Nat Geo 10 million dollar bounty for capture of the creature. Unfortunately, by-the-book forest ranger, Billy Teal (Tom Green), a covert government agency and a serial hoaxer (Rick Dyer) have other plans. A dark and witty comedy with a dysfunctional protagonist, a twisted narrative, and a series of events that builds into a shocker of an ending. The Canadian duo of Tom Green and Les Stroud hit it out of the forest.

KEY SELLING POINTS: Hilariously funny, action-packed comedy with monsters starring Tom Green (Road Trip, Charlie's Angels and is currently on a world comedy tour) and Les Stroud (Survivorman).

RILEY PARRA: BETTER ANGELS

SYNOPSIS: Detective Riley Parra grew up in the bad part of town, the crime-ridden No Man's Land. Now, as a cop in a corrupt department, she strives to make sure the rough streets she left behind aren't forgotten. One case leads her to the discovery that No Man's Land is a battleground between angels and demons, a supernatural war that's been waged for centuries. Thrown into a world she never believed could exist and told that she's the only chance of defeating evil.

KEY SELLING POINTS: Great special effects starring Marina Sirtis (Star Treck) and Liz Vassey (CSI).

RED ISLAND

SYNOPSIS: In an effort to repair a stale relationship, JOHN accompanies his archaeologist girlfriend, AMY to a remote island to locate Ancient Native Artifacts. They discover extremely old cave markings along with a long lost believed to be sacred mask; when it disappears, strange occurrences happen which unleashes a mythological creature that hunts them down as they try to escape and get off the island.

KEY SELLING POINTS: Creature feature. Starring Alex Essoe (Shining sequel Dr. Sleep) and Georgie Daburas (Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina).

ART OF DECEPTION

SYNOPSIS: The CIA’s plan to obtain complete mind control over the entire human population with a virus and a computer chip is interrupted when Joseph Markham finds out the truth, and a fight for life, love and world dominance begins.

KEY SELLING POINTS: High Velocity Action; Explosions; Gunfire; Car Chases.

PETAL PUSHERS

SYNOPSIS: A sweet little film about murder. Reminiscent of "Arsenic and Old Lace" this kooky dark comedy has two sisters in the flower business facing off a suspicious step-father as a smitten detective discovers love doesn't mix with his duties as an officer of the law.

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KEY SELLING POINTS: Starring Isidora Goreshter (Shameless).

POLICE DETECTIVE: SANITATUM

SYNOPSIS: The sins of the wealthy are often buried, and it is the children who suffer in silence; it is they who bear the scars. Four survivors of childhood abuse, now high-functioning and successful adults, find themselves suspects in an investigation into a series of vigilante murders. Behind the careful facades of their households lie dark and disturbing secrets. Two detectives-a seasoned cop whose soul is jeopardy, and his impetuous female partner-attempt to track down a killer with an aberrant agenda and a creative vision of karmic justice. In order to find the killer and put an end to the murders, they seek counsel in a conflicted psychiatrist who finds herself in a dangerous position-torn between her patients, and falling in love with a detective who may unhinge their world.

KEY SELLING POINTS: Starring Elisabeth Rohm (The Oath and Law & Order) and Richard T. Jones (Santa Clarita Diet).

ALL AT ONCE

SYNOPSIS: A young up and coming artist in New York city has his life and dreams forever altered when the tragic events of 9/11 take the lives of his two best friends and he accepts guardianship of the couple's two young daughters. Now eleven years later, and teaching art at an elementary school, he raises the girls as if they were his own, but the financial grind to live in NYC is too much, so he decides to take the girls away from the only place they've ever called home and move back to Buffalo where he grew up. This "non-traditional" family now faced with change, new surroundings, and a new journey, must learn how to adjust to this new life, while trying to find themselves along the way.

KEY SELLING POINTS: Starring Annie Potts (Ghostbusters and Toy Story), Erika Christensen (Ten Days in the Valley), Jason Biggs (Orange is the New Black, American Pie), and Scott Caan (Hawaii Five-O).

THE MAESTRO

SYNOPSIS: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Xander Berkeley of “The Walking Dead”) was the composer of more than 200 Hollywood films in the 1940s and 1950s. Mario went on to mentor some of film music’s greatest composers, including John Williams, Randy Newman, Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith, and Andre Previn. “The Maestro” follows budding film composer Jerry Herst (Leo Marks) as he moves to Hollywood after World War II to study with infamous master teacher Castelnuovo-Tedesco. The film is based on real letters between the two men. An array of film and music luminaries — Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Nelson Riddle, Igor Stravinsky, Stanley Kubrick — are portrayed onscreen as they enter and exit the composer’s orbit. The cast includes native St. Louisan Sarah Clarke (as Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s wife), William Russ, Mackenzie Astin, and the late Jon Polito.

KEY SELLING POINTS: Music themed true story with great production quality.

RECOVERY

SYNOPSIS: The patients and staff of a secluded heroin treatment center must do battle with more than their own demons as a mysterious killer begins picking them off one-by-one.

KEY SELLING POINTS: Unique and terrifying horror film starring Mike Starr (Dumb & Dumber, Ed Wood).

TINKER

SYNOPSIS: A hermit farmer discovers his late father's secret journal containing plans to a magnetic powered machine that could change the world, while unexpectedly becoming custodian of his gifted 6 year old nephew, after his mom's untimely death.

KEY SELLING POINTS: Family friendly with a Dove Seal. Starring Clayne Crawford (Lethal Weapon, Rectify) and Christian Kane (The Librarians).

PLEDGES

SYNOPSIS: Tied up, blindfolded, and left in the woods in nothing but their underwear as part of a Hell Week initiation, six college-aged pledges are tasked with setting up camp. Broken up into two teams, boys versus girls, they must complete a number of extreme hazing rituals set up by their hosts - who happen to be watching their every move through camera-equipped glasses. Both hazers and hazees become victims when a mysterious force that haunts the forest begins to prey upon the participants one by one. 

KEY SELLING POINTS: Sexy horror with comedic elements.

FINDER'S KEEPERS

SYNOPSIS: Five friends and Urban explorers break into an abandoned building to explore and take pictures. Everything is fun and games until they see something they should have never seen and get locked in a place they never should have been! 

KEY SELLING POINTS: Edge of your seat horror.