FilmDoo partners up with London’s Fringe! festival and agrees output deal with distributor Peccadillo Pictures.
London and Sydney-based online film viewing and discovery platform FilmDoo has forged a partnership with this year’s Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Festival in London, hosting the festival’s closing night film, Simo Halinen’s multi Jussi award winning OPEN UP TO ME, a Finnish tale that follows a transgender woman and a married man, whose affair has unexpected consequences for all involved. The film, repped by Scandi sales outfit Yellow Affair, will have a day and date release on FilmDoo in November.
“We are delighted to be working with FilmDoo on the UK premiere of Simo Halinen’s wonderful Open Up to Me as our closing film for 2014. We were moved and inspired by this funny and touching portrayal of a trans* woman taking control of her life.” said Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest director Alex Karotsch.
“Our aim at FilmDoo is to explore new realms of cinema and to make it possible to learn, discover and share films from different backgrounds, communities and sexualities” said Filmdoo co-founder Weerada Sucharitkul “Fringe! Festival has a real energy about it and we‘re delighted to have this excellent Finnish film premiere at their festival.”
Adds FilmDoo Head of Programming Simon Savory, “Transgender rights and issues have been under the spotlight recently across the political spectrum and in the media, so it’s a pleasure to have a strong, positive feature film portrayal of these themes closing the festival and available to view at FilmDoo.”
FilmDoo also closed a major output deal with the UK’s Peccadillo Pictures (WEEKEND, STRANGER BY THE LAKE, TOMBOY), agreeing to host 150 of their films, plus more than one hundred short films.
“We want to be the go-to place for LGBTQI film,“ says FilmDoo co-founder Will Page, ”and we’re not stopping there. With our remit being independent, art-house and non-mainstream cinema, we‘ll be hosting more exciting films in the months to come.”
OPEN UP TO ME premieres on November 9th at the Hackney Picturehouse, and will be available to view at FilmDoo.com
