By Tom Grater International Film Reporter EXCLUSIVE: 101 Films has taken rights for North America and the UK to Kat And The Band, E.E.
Hegarty’s debut feature about a music-obsessed schoolgirl who tricks her way into managing a struggling band. The youth-focused movie stars Ella Hunt (Anna And The Apocalypse), Katherine Kelly, Rufus Hound and Dougie Poynter, of the band McFly fame.
It screened at the London Independent Film Festival but had its fest run cut short by the pandemic. Producers on the pic were Rebecca Long, Stella Nwimo and Ian Davies.
Long heads up Boudica Indigo, the UK production co that focuses on female-driven projects. Carey Fitzgerald’s Irish Silver Mountain Productions struck the rights deal with 101’s Head of
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