Neon, Toronto Heist Thriller ‘How To Explode A Pipeline’ In One Of The First Big Acquisitions Outside Fest

Neon secures North American rights to thriller How to blow up a pipe Advance after a competitive situation at the Toronto Film Festival, which made its world premiere as part of the 2022 festival platform category.

Billed as part heist, part live-action, part climate activism, the film is based on Andrea Malm’s manifesto on the climate crisis. Follow a team of young environmental activists on a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.

Daniel Goldhaber (cameraDirected from a script written with Ariela Barrer (fugitives, atypicalm) and Jordan Sjoli. Barre stars opposite Christina Frozetti (a sharp stick), Lucas Gage (euphoria), Forrest Goodluck (reborn), Sasha Lane (american honey), Jaime Lawson (Batman), Marcus Scribner (black), Jake Weir (will follow you), Irene Bedard (pocahantas) and Olive Jane Lorraine (Jelly).

How to blow up a pipe Written, filmed, financed and produced in just seven months with funding from Lyrical Media and Spacemaker. The film is produced by production company Chrono with Isa Mazzei, Goldhaber, Barrer, David Grove, Churchill Wiste and Adam White Tate. Alex Black and Alex Hughes also served as producers, while Daniel Mandel served as co-producer. John Rosenberg, Ricardo Madaloso, Lane, Goodluck, Sjoly, Natalie Sellers and Evgeny Kotlyarenko served as executive producers. Although Neon plans to release the movie in theaters, no release date has been set.

“Neon was a dream distribution partner when we started working on this movie,” said filmmakers Goldhaber, Barrer, Jordan Sjoll and Daniel Garber. “They have done a great job supporting films that are at the forefront of cinematography and are constantly thinking of new ways to connect audiences and films. We were so lucky to have found a partner who is so passionately involved in this project and we couldn’t be more excited to work with them. How to blow up a pipe in American theatres.

Neon is a production and distribution company with films grossing over $180 million at the box office, winning 18 Oscar nominations and five awards, including Best Picture, in just five years. The company has four films that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, including a recently acquired Laura Poitras documentary. All the beauty and spilled bloodWinner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival; Brett Morgan’s gender image of David Bowie, Lunar Age Dream; Ruben Ostlund, winner of the Palme d’Or, sadness triangle; and Hirokazu Kore-eda runnerKang Ho, the male lead singer of Cannes (a parasite). Neon also announced yesterday 2073A new documentary from Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia that tackles some of the biggest challenges threatening our future.