Shawn Christensen‘s “Before I Disappear” has been picked up by IFC Films for North American distribution, the company announced Tuesday.
The film, which stars Christensen, Fatima Ptacek, Emmy Rossum and Paul Wesley (“The Vampire Diaries”), will have its international premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in the Venice Days sidebar and will be released in the U.S. in November 2014. It had its world premiere at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature.
Based on the 2013 Academy Award-winning short film “Curfew,” the feature follows Richie (Christensen) who, at the lowest point in his life, receives a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his 11-year old niece Sophia (Ptacek) for the evening.