With headquarters in London and an office in Vancouver, Canoe Film is non-traditional feature film and documentary sales agency. The company was established in 2017 in response to an expressed need by Producers for greater transparency, flexibility, and engagement in the international sales and distribution of their films, and a further desire to access market expertise and industry oversight during the formative stages of development, packaging and financing.
Marketing, Festival and Distribution Strategies; International Sales to Global/Multi-Territory Platforms and Distributors; Domestic Sales and Releasing; Pre-Sales (limited to certain projects); Consultancy, Identification, Outreach, and Negotiation of deals with recommended International Sales Agents; Invoicing and Collections Management; Distribution Management.
Script Coverage; Evaluating and Sharpening the Proposition; Finance Strategies; Consulting on Cast and Packaging; Developing key Pitch Materials, Bibles and Business plans; Internal Valuation; Preparation of Sales Estimates.
Recommendation and Introduction to International Co-production Partners, Studios, and Production/Post Facilities; Expertise in UK and Canadian Financing Sources.
International Film Valuation (for projects in development and completed films).
We’re proud to represent international sales rights to the following films:
A Kazakh national residing in Ukraine undertakes a clandestine rescue operation helmed by a Crimean Intelligence Agent. His harrowing work saves hundreds of lives, but when the danger escalates and Intelligence pulls out, he must make a decision that will risk his survival and others. Based on the true story of Konstantin Gudauskas who saved 203 Civilians following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Directed by Stanislav Tiunov
Produced and Written by Oleksandr Shchur
Canoe represents worldwide rights to the film excluding Ukraine.
War-Thriller / Ukraine / Ukrainian, Russian / 120 minutes / 2024
A compelling 7-part miniseries based on the true events that inspired Tom Clancy’s novel The Hunt for Red October. 1975. After an escalating series of events, a Soviet Officer finds himself at the centre of a corrupt regime, prompting him to stage a coup and change the course of history.
Production Company: Cinevilla Pictures
Directed by: Andrejs Ekis
Produced by Dita Cimermane
Canoe represents worldwide rights to the series excluding the Baltic States.
War-Action-Thriller / Latvia / Latvian, / 7x45 minutes / 2024
500 Days In The Wild follows the incredible 6-year 24,000 km cinematic journey of filmmaker Dianne Whelan as she sets out to reconnect with nature and become the first person to travel the longest trail in the world.
Production Company: Rebel Sister Productions
Directed by: Dianne Whelan
Produced by: Betsy Carson
Canoe represents worldwide rights to the film (excluding Canada).
Feature Documentary / Canada / English / 124 minutes / 2023
The remarkable authorised story of American country music star, Walker Hayes’ massive rise to fame from the viral TikTok video Walker made with his teenage daughter, to his chart-topping success and stadium tour. Award-winning filmmaker Matt Beurois was granted exclusive access to tour with Walker, his wife Laney, 6 kids, and 2 dogs on the family tour bus.
Production Company: Colorado Studio
Directed by: Matt Beurois
Produced by Auregan
Featuring Walker Hayes, representatives from TikTok, Amazon Music, and Spotify, Applebee's, iHeart Media, Walker’s Manager, friends and family.
Canoe represents worldwide rights to the film.
Feature documentary / USA / English / 85 minutes / 2024
On a quest for the truth, a filmmaker sets out on a journey to find out whether the leading arguments facing the vegan movement are justified.
Directed by Thomas Pickering
Produced by James Pickering
Executive Produced by Alicia Silverstone, Peter Egan, Alissa White-Gluz
Canoe represents worldwide rights to the film.
Feature Documentary / United Kingdom / English / 95 MINUTES / 2024
A Brooklyn wife and mother of 5 who's been beset by supernatural entities since the age of 11, attempts to rid her house of malevolent spirits now afflicting her children.
Directed by Shannon Alexander
Produced by Shannon Alexander
Canoe represents worldwide rights to the film.
Documentary/Horror / US / English / 88 Minutes / 2023
With compelling original interviews and unique access to Chornobyl surveillance camera footage, Chornobyl 2022 tells the incredible story of a small group of men and women who successfully prevented a nuclear catastrophe that had the potential to cause wider devastation than the 1986 disaster. February 24th, 2022. At dawn, night shift workers at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant were put on high alert. The Chornobyl Exclusion Zone had been captured by Russian Armed Forces. It would be another 36 days before the workers would return home to their families.
Directed by Vitalii Dokalenko
Produced by Vitalii Dokalenko and Andrejs Ekis
Canoe represents international rights to the film.
Documentary Series / Ukraine-Latvia / Ukrainian / 4 x 30' / 2023
Everything you want in a family holiday film from car chases and marital disasters to magic and romance! An escaped prisoner in a Santa suit finds his plans thwarted by two children with a scheme of their own.
Directed by Aigars Grauba
Produced by Ivo Baumanis, Aigars Grauba, Marija Grauba and Kristians Alhimionoks
Canoe represents international rights to the film.
Comedy/Adventure/Family / Latvia / 117 Minutes / 2022
Niks Vreemds Aan (Nothing Strange About It) is a remake of Latvian hit comedy (Swingers). Suus loves her husband Mats but the fire in their marriage has been extinguished for some time. To re-ignite the passion, she signs them up for a swingers app. Mats agrees, unaware of what he is being asked to do.
Directed by Andrejs Ekis
Produced by Kristians Alhimionoks and Edvard van't Wout
Canoe represents international rights to the film.
Comedy / Netherlands / Dutch / 87 Minutes / 2021
The poignant story of Ukrainian human rights activist and beloved poet, Vasyl Stus, his rise to prominence in the 1960s and his enduring fight to protect his culture and dignity amid constant Soviet threat and incarceration. Nominated for a Ukrainian Academy Award and winner of the Crystal Prize for best actor at the 2020 Kyiv International Film Festival.
Production Company: UM Group
Directed by Roman Brovko
Produced by Artem Denysov
Canoe represents international rights to the film.
Biopic Drama / Ukraine / 100 Minutes / 2019
The compelling final chapter in the life of notorious literary icon, James Joyce, focussing on Joyce's relationship with his exceptionally talented daughter, a dancer whose declining mental health is making her future uncertain. At its core, James & Lucia is a story of a father and daughter whose bond is so strong that it threatens to unravel the family.
Production Company: Filmtrax
Directed by Robert Mullan
Produced by Gabrielle Whyte Hart, Rupert Hollier, Simon Fawcett, Mark Andrews
Cast: Aidan Gillen (Maze Runner, Bohemian Rhapsody), Eileen O'Higgins (Brooklyn, Mary Queen of Scots), Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting, The Riches), Harry Melling (The Queens Gambit, Harry Potter), Tamzin Merchant (Salem), Alex Pettyfer (I am Number Four), Rhona Mitra, Tchéky Karyo, Alex Kingston, Cary Elwes
Canoe represents international rights to the film.
Drama / UK / 100 Minutes (approx) / 2022
With outstanding access to the world's leading female artists in dance music, 'Underplayed' presents a portrait of the current status of the gender, ethnic, and sexual equality issues in the industry through the lens of the female pioneers, next-generation artists and industry leaders who are championing the change.
Directed by Stacey Lee
Produced by William Crouse
Canoe represents international rights (ex North America) to the film.
DOCUMENTARY / CANADA / ENGLISH / 87 MIN / 2020
Winner of multiple awards including Best Animated Film at the London Independent Film Awards and a Bronze Horse at Stockholm Festival Junior. A young mole with World Cup ambitions becomes an unlikely hero when he faces off against a greedy supervillain bent on taking over the local gold mine.
Production Company: Homesick Angel
Directed by Trevor Hardy
Voice Talent: Ken Stott, Lizzie Waterworth, Dave Mounfield
Canoe represents international rights (ex UK) to the film.
STOP MOTION ANIMATION / UK / ENGLISH / 100 MIN / 2019
Nominated for a 2022 BAFTA
'Keyboard Fantasies' tells the story of Beverly Glenn-Copeland, a black transgender septuagenarian (and musical genius) who finally finds his place in the world. When Glenn receives an unexpected email in 2016 from a record collector in Japan enquiring about copies of his 1986 self-release, Keyboard Fantasies, everything changes. Now signed to a major indie label, and sharing a timely message with the world, Glenn's emergence from obscurity transpires as an intimate coming of age story that spins the pain and suffering of prejudice into rhythm, hope and joy.
Production Company: LUCA
Directed by Posy Dixon
Canoe represents worldwide rights to the film.
Documentary / UK / English / 62 and 70 min versions / 2020
'One Man and His Shoes' tells the story of the phenomenon of Air Jordan sneakers showing their social, cultural and racial significance and how ground-breaking marketing strategies created a billion-dollar business. But it is also a story with a dark side – for thirty years people have been willing to kill for a pair of Air Jordans, while manufacturer Nike has turned a blind eye. This film is a parable of America's dark love affair with consumer capitalism and celebrity culture.
Production Company: Break Em Films
Directed by Yemi Bamiro
Canoe represents international rights (ex UK) to the film.
Feature Documentary / UK-US / English / 79 min / 2020
Hillarious and heart-warming in equal parts, 'Iceland Is Best' tells the story of Sigga, a 17 year-old girl trying to leave home in Iceland and make her way to California. Based on true events.
Production Company: No Reservations Entertainment
Directed by Max Newsom
Cast: Helena Mattson, Tom Prior, Tom Maden, Judd Nelson
Canoe represents worldwide rights to the film.
Drama-Comedy / UK-Iceland / English / 90 min / 2020
Autumn, 1830. West Point military Cadet Edgar Allan Poe and four other cadets on a training exercise in upstate New York come upon a man eviscerated on a bizarre wooden rack. His dying words direct them to a forgotten community, which they believe is guarding sinister secrets. Enthralled by the Innkeeper's beautiful and mysterious daughter Charlotte, and fuelled by the town residents’ refusal to speak to the murder, Poe determines to uncover the truth. Risking his life and more, Poe ultimately comes face to face with the terrifying creature that will haunt him forever.
Production Company: Raven’s Hollow LTD
Directed by Christopher Hatton
Produced by Caroline Stern, Andrejs Ekis, Todd Lundbohm
Cast: William Moseley (Chronicles of Narnia, Friend Request), Melanie Zanetti (Love and Monsters), Kate Dickie (The Witch, Game of Thrones, The Green Knight), David Hayman, Oberon K.A. Adjepong, Callum Woodhouse
Canoe’s Caroline Stern produced and Canoe represents worldwide rights to the film.
SUPERNATURAL THRILLER / UK / 98 MINUTES / 2022
Twins Elise and Alfie embark on a magical Christmas Eve journey led by a mysterious Wish Collector who takes them to a mythical island where their wishes come true. Only, they find out that the rules of the island are more complicated than anticipated. Having each followed their own desires, they find themselves separated and faced with multiple dangers as they try and find their way back to one another.
Produced by Tony Nottage (Saving Santa), Nigel Hardwidge (WALLE, Finding Nemo), Francesca Longrigg
Cast : Ewan McGreggor, Helena Bonham Carter, Terry Jones, David Walliams
Canoe represents international rights to the film on behalf of the Land of Sometimes Ltd.
Feature Animation / UK / Pre-production
13th Century. On his deathbed, the King of Semigallia bestows power to an unexpected heir who must accept his responsibility and win the confidence of his people in order to defend their freedom against violent crusades.
Production Company: Cinevilla Studios, Platforma
Directed by Aigars Grauba
Canoe represents international rights to the film.
Action-Drama / UK-Latvia / English / 110 min / 2018
The true story of the Iraqi National Boxing Team and their amazing journey from desperation to the edge of an historical qualification.
Production Company: Robusto Films
Directed by Riccardo Romani; Executive Produced by Alfonso Cuaron
Canoe represents international rights to the film on behalf of Robusto.
DOCUMENTARY / UK / ARABIC / 85 MIN / 2018
The story of a little known Cardiologist in Capetown who changed medical history and became an overnight global celebrity when he performed the world’s first successful human heart transplant.
Production Company: Welela Studios
Directed by Byron Davis
DOCUMENTARY / SOUTH AFRICA / ENGLISH / 58 MIN / 2017
Part music documentary, part unflinching character study, part a punk version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ - I Get Knocked Down is the funny, surreal and deeply human story of the most audacious anarchist music experiment of all time and a call to arms to those who think activism is best undertaken by someone else.
Production Company: So&So Pictures
Directed by Sophie Robinson and Dunstan Bruce
Documentary/ UK / English / 88 Minutes / 2021
Two Ordinary Couples. One Extraordinary Threesome. (And a record-breaking comedy film).
Production Company: Sia Platforma
Directed by Andrejs Ekis
Canoe is engaged in the licensing and co-production of local language remake rights to the film. Presentation upon request.
Comedy / Latvia / Latvian / 95 min / 2016Our latest posts and whereabouts.
London-based sales outfit Canoe Film is making its debut in series global distribution with “Mutiny,” . . . set to officially launch at Mipcom in Cannes.
To express interest or arrange a meeting, please use the contact form below.
EXCLUSIVE: London-based sales firm Canoe Film is launching sales on Ukraine war film Bucha Unbroken, which will have its world premiere at the upcoming Warsaw Film Festival.
To schedule a meeting, please use the contact form below.
Mutiny is among 5 projects selected for the TV Beats Screening Day. The organizers of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival‘s and Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event series strand will spotlight, in the most dynamic way, the best of the best from the Baltics, but also from CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) and the Nordic region.
To express interest, please use the contact form below.
We are thrilled to be working with filmmakers Tom and James Pickering to launch their incredible feature doc next month. Executive produced by Alicia Silverstone, Peter Egan, Heather Mills
To schedule a meeting, please use the contact form below.
Canoe closes the year with a December flurry of deals on ‘I Get Knocked Down’ including SBS Television for Australia, Caixaforum for Spain (VOD) and a theatrical deal in the Nordics with Maywin Media.
Canoe is thrilled to announce that we're representing worldwide rights to Shannon Alexander's Documentary-horror, It's Coming. World premiere Hot Docs 2023. Market Premiere at Cannes.
A genuinely unsettling . . . horror that suggests more than shows - Angie Driscoll, Hot Docs
Caroline will be based at The Members Club @ Long Beach (across from The JW Marriott)
To schedule a meeting, please use the contact form below.
Sony Pictures International Productions has optioned remake
rights to Latvian Christmas comedy Accidental Santa in eight
territories: North America, the UK, Germany, France, Spain,
Italy, Mexico and Brazil.
Sony struck the deal with London-based Canoe Film, which
represents international distribution and remake rights and
launched sales last week at the European Film Market in Berlin.
US distributor Level 33 has picked up family sci-fi adventure Future TX from UK sales company Canoe Film, with a theatrical release planned for spring.
The incredible story of how the staff at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant — site of the 1986 nuclear disaster — prevented another nuclear catastrophe from occurring after it was occupied by Russian troops in early 2022 has been turned into a feature documentary being launched at the European Film Market.
Canoe Film is a London-based company launched in 2017 in response to an expressed need by Producers for greater transparency, flexibility, and engagement in the international sales and distribution of their films, and a further desire to access market expertise and industry oversight during the formative stages of development, packaging and financing.
Canoe’s business model is based on the idea of bringing the
distribution function “in-house” to experienced Producing teams.
Canoe collaborates with Producers to help shape film and television
projects for the domestic and global markets from the outset,
optimising their financing and distribution potential, and ensuring
that decisions made throughout the process serve to enhance the
value of the completed property.
The company also provides consultancy services to funders, vetting
key elements of project packages and providing creative and
commercial assessments.
Canoe works primarily with Producers and Financiers of feature
films and feature documentaries in the UK, the US, Canada and
Europe.
It serves Producers and Rightsholders by identifying the range of
opportunities available to them in a continually evolving
distribution landscape, assessing commercial potential and
compatibility, and structuring sales and license agreements on terms
that are fair.
A cheeky reference to its founder’s Canadian origins, the idea
behind canoe lays in the firm belief that film production and
distribution must be a collaborative process. It requires several
people to come together, each with a function, and to agree on a
direction or path. Success lies in finding the right team and
working with that team to generate something that would be
impossible with only one person.
In actuality, the symbol has evoked many more associations and
metaphors from the idea of exploration to the need for hard
persistent work to the idea of independence.
With over eighteen years of senior executive experience running
International Film and Television sales companies, Caroline has
developed exceptional oversight of the film and television industry
and has been at the forefront of developing entertainment patterns.
Initially hired to manage the operations of a boutique sales agency
in Vancouver in 2001, she became an integral part of its growth,
eventually heading sales and acquisitions for the company. In 2008,
her career took her to Toronto and ultimately, to London, where she
established the international sales division for UK independent
distributor, Kaleidoscope, which she subsequently oversaw for seven
years.
In 2017, amidst an evolving international landscape in the film and
television industry, Caroline set up her own consultancy business,
Canoe Film, to bring project development, finance strategy, and
distribution expertise in-house to Producers. Throughout her career,
Caroline has worked extensively on the distribution and
international sales of over 250 titles including Hideo Nakata’s The
Ring and Dark Water, Steve Buscemi’s Interview, Joss
Whedon’s adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, and Bobcat
Goldthwaite’s Willow Creek. Seminal documentaries include
the multi-award winning Sharkwater, David Attenborough’s The
Penguin King, and Ice T’s The Art of Rap.
Caroline has also Executive Produced several very commercially
successful films including A Streetcat Named Bob and Interview
with a Hitman. She is currently executive producing a series
of local language remakes and attached as a Producer on two projects
set to shoot in 2020: an Adventure Fantasy and a Gothic Sci Fi based
on Edgar Allan Poe’s early life.
Nice things our clients say.
Riccardo RomaniFounder, Creative Director
RobustoFilms
When we first met, it took me only a few minutes to realise I wanted to work with Caroline. Her contagious sensibility and dedication to her work makes my life easier. When I decided to create RobustoFilms, I began looking for someone who could share the same artistic values and bring complimentary experience from the field. Caroline was the perfect fit. Providing a variety of connections all over the world, Caroline is poised to give my projects the right positioning, while offering valuable advice on the production side. Working with Canoe Film gives me the perception I am putting my projects in a tailor’s hands. From financing to distribution, every phase of the process is handled with professionalism and pragmatism. I hope my collaboration with Caroline’s Canoe Film will last long, my business will definitely profit from it, and the pleasure of working with someone I highly respect, will make the experience fulfilling.
Nick HamsonCEO, Producer
Studio Soho
Canoe Film, through Caroline has demonstrated tremendous value across the Studio Soho slate of projects and has become an indispensable part of our organisation. Personable, professional and incredibly loyal and a great ambassador for our future.
Verity WislockiOwner, Producer
Wislocki Films
Caroline Stern as Canoe Film has helped and advised us on the distribution of our documentary feature Another News Story. She has been tremendously helpful in enabling us to navigate a largely unknown and very scary terrain! She has provided clarity and a workable strategy amidst a very daunting landscape where one decision affects so many other elements. She’s also very well connected and an incredibly lovely person to work with!
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