Together Films Acquires Sales Rights To CPH:DOX-Bound ‘Lowland Kids,’ About Young Louisiana Climate Refugees
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Together Films has acquired international sales rights to Lowland Kids, a documentary produced by Darren Aronofsky about America’s first climate refugees, ahead of the film’s world premiere at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen.
Danish-born filmmaker Sandra Winther directed the feature which “follows two teenagers [Howard and Juliette] and their uncle [Chris] – on Louisiana’s rapidly disappearing Isle de Jean Charles.
They face an uncertain future as the U.S. government makes an unprecedented effort to resettle their entire community before the island succumbs to the sea.” Lowland Kids is a co-production of Protozoa, Real Lava, Misfits Entertainment, Passion Pictures, and MBK, in association with Minderoo Pictures, Evoke Media, and RandomGood Films.
Along with Oscar nominee Aronofsky, founder of Protozoa, the film is produced by Lizzie Gillett (Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story) of Misfits Entertainment; Oscar nominee Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær (The Cave; Apolonia, Apolonia) of Real Lava; Protozoa’s Brendan Naylor; William Crouse (Monster Factory), and Lauren Avinoam (All These Small Moments).
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