Press release

Montreal — Wednesday, October 10, 2007 — Montreal-based Atopia Distribution Inc announced today that the North American theatrical premiere of Aron Gauder’s multiple award-winning animated socio-political satire The District (“Nyocker”) will be having its North American theatrical premiere at Seattle’s Grand Illusion Cinema. The legendary DC art theater wll be screening the film nightly in a one-week engagement that kicks off this Friday, October 12. These screenings will mark the edgy Hungarian film’s triumphant return to this city, after a jam-packed festival bow at the Seattle International film Festival, whose organizers referred to it as “an Eastern European South Park”.

Dates to follow include a 2-week run at Montreal’s Cinema Du Parc starting Oct 26, an appearance in late October at the Brattle Cinema’s Boston Fantastic Film Festival, a week-long engagement at Austin’s celebrated Alamo Drafthouse Cinema commencing November 16, a 3-day rumble at the Winnipeg Cinematheque from Nov 26 and a late-January splash at the Cleveland Cinematheque. More dates will be annnounced shortly.

Hailed by Ain’t It Cool News as “startlingly original”. The District had its North American bow at the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to screen at 59 fests across the world, including Karlovy Vary, Rotterdam International, Philadelphia Film Festival, Austin Fantasticfest, Mar Del Plata, Melbourne International and Sitges, winning awards at no less than 13 of them and attaining cult adoration and critical acclaim in every spoken language.

Film Synopsis: A group of teens from the wrong side of Budapest’s tracks band together to make themselves rich by traveling back in time, burying a horde of mammoths under the city’s streets, then returning to the present and drilling for oil. As creators of a new oil-producing nation, their scheme draws the attention of Vladmir Putin, Tony Blair and George W Bush. In the midst of it all, star-crossed teen love is in bloom. This outrageous and visually stunning animated satire plays like an unhinged ghetto updating of Romeo & Juliet smash-filtered through a politically-charged — and politically-incorrect — kaleidoscope of clashing world views and social unrest, complete with musical numbers and a wicked soundtrack of Hungarian hip-hop. You have never seen anything like it.

News posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007.