NeoClassics chooses its ‘Captain’ for 2009

Newbie distribution company NeoClassics Films are latching onto a film that ever since its preem at Sundance has played extremely well on the film festival circuit – and additionally, and this comes as a surprise — has been selected as it’s country’s (Jordan) first ever (!) bid for the Best Foreign film category. I’m aware that some places on this earth are movie-producing nations, but I’m sure that Jordan has had at least one example of a film worthy of international audiences before 2008? 

THR reports that the indie distributor picked up the North American, U.K., Australian and South African rights to Captain Abu Raed by writer-director Amin Matalqa.

Winner of the Dramatic World Cinema Audience Award in Park City, this centers on an airport janitor (Nadim Sawalha) mistaken for a pilot by children in his poor Jordanian neighborhood. His fictional tales of adventures around the world inspire them.