The Yellow Affair has boarded world sales on Locarno kid’s title “Pixie: The New Beginning” (“Skrzat. Nowy początek”) by Krzysztof Komander.
The family adventure pic has just had its world premiere at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival on Aug. 14 where The Yellow Affair kicked off sales to Komander’s debut feature.
Next Film has slated its theatrical release debut for Sept. 19 where it will screen across more than 200 theatres in Poland.
“Pixie” follows Hania, an imaginative eleven-year-old who still believes in pixies and is mocked by her classmates. Determined to protect the magical world she once shared with her recently deceased mother, she sets out to prove that fairy-tale creatures are real. With the help of Michał, a fellow school outcast, Hania encounters Sindri—a mischievous pixie living in the nearby forest—who vows to aid them.
What follows is a whirlwind adventure full of surprises, where Hania discovers the true strength of friendship, the damage caused by deceit and, ultimately, finds peace with the loss of her mother.
Said The Yellow Affair’s Alexandra Cruz: “Since their first pitch at the Young Horizons forum, we knew there was great potential for the international audience. ’Pixie: The New Beginning’ is a heartwarming film that will also make you believe in Pixies.”
The film is produced by Dagmara Piasecka for Green Rat Production and boasts a cast that includes Amelia Golda, Maksymilian Zieliński, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Anna Smołowik, Agata Turkot, Wojciech Solarz. Borys Szyc lends his voice to the pixie, Sindri.
Expressing delight at being in Locarno with Komander and their film, Piasecka said: “We have been friends for 15 years, have always talked about working on a family film together; therefore, we are excited to finally have it premiere at this fantastic place with this extraordinary landscape. Being that it’s my debut film, this premiere is a dream come true.”
The family adventure pic was backed by the Polish Film Institute and Czech Audiovisual Fund together with co-producers Heaven’s Gate, Lonely Production, Documentary and Feature Film Studios, Warsaw Mazovia Film Fund, Silesia Film, Matejka.Studio, Haka Films, EC1 Łódź – City of Culture, Abstraction Plan, Bahama Films.
The Yellow Affair’s slate also includes Helen Walsh’s buzzy title “On the Sea” which will have its world premiere in competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s “Dreamers,” which world premiered at Berlin Panorama and had its U.S. premiere at Frameline.
It also includes “Punching the World,“ the directorial debut of Constanze Klaue, which also had its world premiere in Berlin in the Perspectives Competition and Justin Kurzel’s “Ellis Park” which has played at multiple festivals through the last year including Melbourne, London, CPH:DOX, Gothenburg and Sydney.
Notable pick-ups in the past include the Sundance title “Reinas,” the Swedish sci-fi series “The Chosen Ones” and the Portuguese crime drama “Irreversible.”