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Strand Releasing has nabbed distribution rights to Julian Goldberger’s The Hawk Is Dying, an emotional and enigmatic darling of both Sundance and Cannes, garnering for Goldberger a selection for the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at Cannes. The film stars Paul Giamatti, Michael Pitt, Rusty Schwimmer and Michelle Williams in a touching story of finding one’s place in life.

The big stars may be feeling left in the lurch as the Toronto International Film Festival plows forward, but independents and up-and-comers have continued to take center stage and garner strong distribution deals. Lionsgate Entertainment, the leader in independent film distribution announced on Wednesday that they have penned a deal with newcomer Sarah Polley for her feature-length directorial debut Away From Her which preemed on Monday night.

Prolific (understatement) director Johnnie To is back, again. The actioneer's latest film, Exiled, has been picked up Magnolia Pictures for distribution in North American. The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it received high marks and standing O's. Expected to be a major hit in Asia, the film showcases To's trademark skills at making gangster films with an action glean.

After years of production and anticipation, a seemingly revolving door of talent coming and going, and the addition then subtraction of the greatest living director Jean-Luc Godard (in my opinion anyway), the colossal Paris, je t'aime is finally branching the Atlantic. The project showcases twenty-two of the top directors in the world (I count the Coen brothers as one person) as they each direct a segment that doubles as both a brief romantic encounter and a romantic ode to the city of Paris. Each segment is broken up into arrondissements, which is French for 'counties' I think, where each filmmaker will showcase their particular story in a different part of Paris. First Look Pictures has thankfully picked up the North American rights, ensuring cinephiles here will finally get to see this film, which seemed to exist solely on an Imdb page for about five years until its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. First Look is looking to make an even bigger splash with this release, having already released Austrailian neo-western The Proposition and Sundance fave A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.

Death of a President (D.O.A.P.), the UK TV movie that became one of the most controversial and buzzed-about films at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, has been snapped up by Newmarket Films for release in the US. The mockumentary, which spawned hundreds of headlines even before its screening (like Snakes On A Plane, or S.O.A.P, oddly enough), recreates and reexamines the assassination of current President George W. Bush by a Syrian sniper in Chicago. Newmarket, amongst whose other releases are Lukas Moodysson's Lilya 4Eva, Whale Rider, and Christopher Nolan's Memento and upcoming The Prestige, is evidently not worried about the impending foot-stomping, boycotting, and loud voices that Conservative America will no doubt expound at selected theatres when this film is actually released.