Press release

by Federico Hidalgo at Cinequest!

Montreal, Thursday March 1, 2007 — Atopia is proud to announce the official selection of Imitation, Federico Hidalgo’s second feature (A Silent Love, 2004) at the 17th Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California. Imitation stars Vanessa Bauche (Amores Perros), Jesse Aaron Dwyre and Conrad Pla, is written by Federico Hidalgo and Paulina Robles, directed by Hidalgo, and produced by Pascal Maeder. Imitation will also be featured at the 14th San Diego Latino Film Festival, in March, 2007. It will open in theatres across North America in summer 2007.

Teresa, an alluring Mexican woman, comes to Montreal in search of her husband who had abandoned her in Mexico, cutting her life in two. In Montreal, she meets Fenton, a young man who falls in love with her. Fenton convinces Teresa to let him help her find her husband. In their pursuit, Teresa and Fenton criss-cross Montreal, persuading a string of comical characters to reveal clues that will finally lead them to the wayward husband. In the end, Teresa must decide whether to reveal the painful secret that haunts her.

The film will be distributed by Atopia Distribution in Canada and the United States and represented internationally by Atopia Export.

Atopia Distribution releases its in-house productions as well as a selection of equally insightful films to audiences across the USA and Canada. Daring and original, our films are critically-acclaimed features: S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks In Traffic by Daniel Cross, Jimmywork by Simon Sauvé, A Silent Love by Federico Hidalgo, Rechercher Victor Pellerin by Sophie Deraspe, Sur la trace d’Igor Rizzi by Noel Mitrani, and most recently Heidi Specogna's Sundance hit The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez, scheduled for theatrical release in New York, Toronto, and Seattle in April 2007.

News posted Thursday, March 1, 2007.