Media 8 Entertainment, a leading film entertainment company engaged in the production, financing, acquisition, and worldwide licensing of theatrical feature films in a variety of genres, announced today that it has acquired the rights to the documentary film GOD GREW TIRED OF US and will be introducing it to buyers for the first time at the upcoming Cannes market.
Narrated by Nicole Kidman, GOD GREW TIRED OF US is the winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, winner of Best Documentary at the 2006 Deauville Film Festival, and director Christopher Quinn was awarded the 2006 Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award from the International Documentary Association for the film. Written and directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn and co-directed by Tommy Walker, the film explores the indomitable spirit of three “Lost Boys” from Sudan who leave their homeland, triumph over seemingly insurmountable adversities and move to America, where they build active and fulfilling new lives but remain deeply committed to helping the friends and family they have left behind.
GOD GREW TIRED OF US, a National Geographic Films/LBS Production, is produced by Molly Bradford Pace, Christopher Dillon Quinn, Tommy Walker and executive produced by Brad Pitt, Peter Gilbert, Steven Rosenbaum, Adam Schlesinger and Jack Schneider.
National Geographic Films (NGF), which acquires, develops, and produces theatrical motion pictures, is a subsidiary of The National Geographic Society, one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world. NGF co-presented the 2005 Best Documentary Oscar Winner MARCH OF THE PENGUINS, is producing the wildlife adventure ARCTIC TALE, as told by Queen Latifah, for Paramount Vantage, and is co-producing with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt the 10-hour mini series of Steven Ambrose's award-winning UNDAUNTED COURAGE: MERIWETHER LEWIS, THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WEST for HBO.
Media 8 Entertainment's diverse slate of features for Cannes 2007 includes THE RAMEN GIRL, starring Brittany Murphy and Toshiyuki Nishida; LOCAL COLOR starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ray Liotta and Trevor Morgan; ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING starring Peter O'Toole, Luke Goss and Tiffany Dupont; and the comedy documentary AIR GUITAR NATION which debuted at AFI FEST 2006.
Media 8 Entertainment's previous slate includes: the Academy Award-winning MONSTER; the critically acclaimed THE UPSIDE OF ANGER starring Joan Allen and Kevin Costner; the action-drama RUNNING SCARED written and directed by Wayne Kramer and starring Paul Walker; the comedy LOVEWRECKED starring Amanda Bynes, Chris Carmack, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, and Jonathan Bennett; and The MAN ABOUT TOWN written and directed by Mike Binder, and starring Ben Affleck, Rebecca Romijn, and John Cleese. Media 8's next release is THE RAMEN GIRL, starring Brittany Murphy and Toshiyuki Nishida.
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