The Toronto-based distributor Phase 4 Films has acquired all North American rights to director Megan Griffiths’ drama “Eden,” Phase 4 announced on Wednesday.
Griffiths and Richard B. Phillips Jr. wrote the screenplay for the project, and Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges and Matt O'Leary are set to star in the film, produced by Colin Harper Plank and Jacob Mosler.
The story follows a Korean-American teenager who is abducted and forced to work as a sex slave in Las Vegas after getting a ride home from a bar in New Mexico. Phase 4 is planning to release the film early in 2013.
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“Eden” made its world premiere at the 2012 SXSW Film Conference and Festival, where it won several prizes. It also played at the 2012 Seattle International Film Festival, where Chung won the best actress award.
International sales for the film are being handled by the Los Angeles-based sales company Cinema Management Group (CMG).
CMG has already closed sales in a number of areas including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Middle East, Japan and South Korea.