Press release

Montreal — Thursday August 16th , 2007: ATOPIA is pleased to announce that Montreal filmmaker André-Line Beauparlant’s third documentary, Antlers, will be available in stores as of October 2nd! After successfully closing the 25th Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois, the film screened to appreciative audiences in theaters across Quebec, as well as several international documentary film festivals such as Thessaloniki.

Antlers is a documentary about a rare and shy species: the big game hunters of the forests of Northern Quebec. Alternating between interviews and savage hunting sequences, the film overflows with humour, tenderness, and heart-stopping authenticity as it touches subjects such as love, death, and religion.

André-Line Beauparlant has worked as an art director on numerous auteur films, such as Un dimanche à Kigali for which she was nominated for a Jutra Award. Her previous films, Trois princesses pour Roland and Le petit Jésus both won awards (Best Direction, Hot Docs Film Festival; Yolande & Pierre Perreault Award for Best Aspiring Documentary, Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois) and nominations (Jutra Award for Best Documentary).

For further information or to view the trailer, please visit the film’s official website at www.panache-film.com or e-mail us with screener or publicity requests at info@atopia.com. For information on other Atopia titles, please visit www.atopia.com or our MySpace page at www.myspace.com/atopiaspace.

Atopia Distribution releases its in-house productions as well as a selection of equally insightful films to audiences across the US and Canada. Daring and original, our films are critically-acclaimed features, which, in order to give the richest tour, are screened at major festivals around the world, then released in art-house and commercial theatres to garner wide media exposure prior to launching them on DVD and the internet. Antlers (original French title: Panache) is Atopia’s fifth title to be released via download innovator, Jaman.Com, a leader in Indie world cinema on the web.

News posted Thursday, August 16, 2007.