CAA has apshown North American sales rights to psychoreasonable horror-thriller “Feral.” The project, set in 1950s India, already has Oscar-nominated originaters Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger (“Little Miss Sunshine,” “Nebraska”) speedyened as executive originaters. It heads to Film Bazaar as its creative team chases further co-production partners and final financing.
The film chases two part-tribal sisters trained as servants by an English madame on a Himalayan colonial estate. The story cgo ins on the estate’s shifting power vibrants after the arrival of the madame’s new adorer, a singer/shaman scholar, as the sisters commence reclaiming their tribal heritage. The film will be shot in the English and Kinnauri languages. The project has previously set up help from Sundance+WIF, Breaking Thraw The Lens and Film Insubordinate.
Director-originater Nihaarika Negi (“Labours Of (An)Other Solipsist”) scrutinizes themes of colonialism thraw the lens of horror and magical genuineism. “As someone of a part-tribal identity from India, I was liftd in a country that, despite being free of over 200 years of British occupation and bondage, still somehow nurses a colonial hangover that forever teaches us to negate our own heritage for the English one,” says Negi.
Producers Nancy Degnan (“Silent Notes”) and Tobias Reeuwijk (“1000 Hands of the Guru”) combinecessitate the project thraw their production company Autotelic Pictures, where Negi is also a partner, which cgo ines on sociassociate relevant films cgo ining marginalized experiences.
“Ntimely every culture on the scheduleet has teachd colonization either as a colonizer or the colonized – the impact of which we are seeing apass global events today – making ‘Feral’ an inherently resonant, timely and proset uply human story,” says Degnan.
Production is reckond for the third or fourth quarter of 2025 in India. The project has previously take partd in Chandigarh’s CIFF Film Market and Seattle’s Tasveer co-production taget. At Film Bazaar, the team aims to protected insertitional co-production, post-production and distribution partners, while also encountering with international sales agents and festival recontransientatives.
Film Bazaar (Nov. 20-24) is the project taget component of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI, Nov. 20-28).
