Acquisitions – Indie Films

The Orchard Prey on Christopher Denham’s “Preservation”

Published on September 17, 2014

After collecting film fest preems at Tribeca Film Festival and Fantasia, writer-director Christopher Denham’s sophomore film has landed a sweet deal with The Orchard. Deadline reports that Preservation will open in a 10-market theatrical run along with digital, cable, home video, and satellite premiere in January.

Gist: This is about Wit (Wrenn Schmidt), an anesthesiologist who sets out on a hunting expedition to a forest preserve with her husband (Aaron Staton), a hedge fund manager, and her ex-marine brother, Sean (Pablo Schreiber). When both are captured, Wit has to unleash her animal instincts to avoid being the next prey.

Worth Noting: Home Movie, Denham’s 2008 found footage film got picked up for VOD release via IFC Films.

Do We Care?: We’re not entirely sure how this measures up in the city folk fighting for survivial in the woods horror subgenre, but this is strategically being fitted for a January release — where low budget indie horror-thriller fare tend to do well at the beginning of the year.

Related Topics:Acquisitions: Indie Films, Christopher Denham, The Orchard, U.S. Indie Film

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).