Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to Jerry Rothwell's critically-acclaimed documentary The Reason I Jump,based on the international bestseller by Naoki Higashida.
The film, which won the world cinema documentary audience award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, was also picked up byMadman (Australia & New Zealand), Kadokawa (Japan), DCM (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), Cherry Pickers (Benelux), Selmer Media (Scandinavia), L'Atelier d’Images (France), Anticipate Pictures (Singapore and Thailand) and Restart (Former Yugoslavia).
As previously announced, Picturehouse has taken the U.K./Ireland rights. Release dates are still to be revealed. London-based MetFilm Sales, headed by Vesna Cudic, is overseeing global sales.
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