Press release

Montreal — Tuesday November 6, 2007 — ATOPIA is pleased to announce that Montreal filmmaker Noël Mitrani’s first feature-length film, On The Trail of Igor Rizzi, will hit Canadian DVD shelves on November 6th!

After an exceptional run at the festivals (Critics Week — Venice, Toronto International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Thessaloniki), On the Trail of Igor Rizzi received the award for Best First Canadian Feature and inclusion in Canada’s Top Ten list organized by the Toronto International Film Festival. Screened in many theatres across Quebec as well as in Toronto and Vancouver, the movie has been praised by critics and audiences alike.

A grief-stricken and destitute French ex-soccer player has moved to Montreal, the home town of his lost love, in an effort to recapture her presence. He is haunted by the regret of never having told her how much he loved her. To earn money he accepts to kill a certain Igor Rizzi…

A graduate of History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne, and for some time a press illustrator, Noël Mitrani launched into cinema via writing. He directed his first short film After Shave in 1999, a moving comedy set in a suburban supermarket. Three other short films followed, the last of which Les Siens addresses the confusion possible between dream and reality.

Atopia’s DVD edition of On the Trail of Igor Rizzi contains the following special features:

• the film’s making of
• English and Italian subtitles
• the film’s trailer
• the film trailers of other Atopia titles.

For further information and to view the trailer, please visit the film’s official website at http://www.surlatracedigorrizzi.com/ or e-mail us with screener of 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.

News posted Tuesday, November 6, 2007.