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Screen Media to spread Lymelife in Spring of 2009

Indie featherweight distributor Screen Media Films have picked up what will surely become their prestige title for the 09 calendar year.

Eric Lavallée

Published on October 13, 2008

Indie featherweight distributor Screen Media Films have picked up what will surely become their prestige title for the 09 calendar year. Today the company announced that they have snapped up the rights to the film that was awarded the International Critics Prize for Discovery award at last month’s edition of TIFF. Sadly it was a project that I’m looking forward to seeing and missed the screenings that took place in Toronto, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it gain a second showing in Sundance next January, before its launch sometime in the Spring.

Directed by Derick Martini and co-written with his brother, this is set in 1970’s Long Island, Lymelife revolves around a 15-year-old and his family whose life is turned upside-down after an outbreak of Lyme disease hits their suburban community, spreading illness and paranoia.

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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).