EXCLUSIVE: London-based gross sales and manufacturing outfit Dogwoof has boarded world gross sales for Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan’s Nocturnes, which is able to get its world premiere within the World Cinema Documentary Competitors on the 2024 Sundance Movie Competition.
Set within the Japanese Himalayas, the eco-doc sees two curious observers shine a light-weight on a secret universe, transporting audiences to a rarely-seen place the place moths assist knit collectively an necessary ecosystem.
Oscar-nominated Sandbox Movies (Hearth of Love) is producing.
Along with co-directing, Dutta is producing together with government producers Boustead and Harrop. Yaël Bitton (Advocate) is editor; Satya Rai Nagpaul is director of images; unique rating is by BAFTA Breakthrough composer Nainita Desai (For Sama). The film is a manufacturing of Sandbox Movies and the administrators’ Delhi-based Metamorphosis Movies Junction.
Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan’s newest documentary, Flickering Lights, competed within the Worldwide Competitors on the 2023 version of IDFA, the place it took the highest prize for cinematography.
Sandbox Movies Co-founder Greg Boustead mentioned: “Nocturnes is such a singular and intoxicating expertise. Anirban and Anupama have such a affected person eye, and the nuanced lens with which they see the pure world is obvious in each body. Sandbox co-founder Jess Harrop and I’ve had such a wealthy expertise collaborating with them these previous three years. Now with our premiere set for Sundance and Dogwoof on board, we are able to’t wait to move a world viewers to this particular nook of the world.”
Dogwoof’s Oli Harbottle added: “I bear in mind assembly Anirban and Anupama once they first pitched Nocturnes and realizing that this was going to be a very distinctive movie. Once I was lastly capable of see it, I used to be blown away by the cinematic great thing about this visually and aurally immersive piece of filmmaking. It’s nice to be working with our earlier collaborators at Sandbox Movies to launch this very particular movie at Sundance.”
“By way of the cinematic type of the movie, we search to create an expertise the place the viewers feels embedded within the pure atmosphere, and responds to the vibrations of nature,” commented the movie’s administrators. “We hope to encourage an understanding of the human world as being a part of, depending on, and impacted by even essentially the most minute creatures in nature. With their wonderful monitor data of bringing creative movies to massive audiences, Sandbox and Dogwoof are good companions to take our movie to the world.”
