EXCLUSIVE: LA outfit Black Box Management has launched a content sales division at Tribeca and unveiled its first project.
Black Box is launching sales on Jean-Cosme Delaloye’s Desire: The Carl Craig Story at the New York fest this week. The movie from Bord Cadre Films and Sovereign Films is the first out the blocks from the agency that represents the likes of John Patton Ford (Huntington), Tone Bell (Survival of the Thickest) and Lisa Cortes (Little Richard: I Am Everything). It subsequently plans to represent global features and series for the North American marketplace, some of which will feature Black Box talent and some of which won’t.
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“Black Box Sales enables us to expand our industry reach with the filmmaker community since we are selling films from directors from all over the world, not just ones we represent here in the U.S.,” said Black Box partners Lowell Shapiro and Mike Dill. “We look forward to building relationships with emerging filmmakers as we shepherd their work through the ecosystem of Hollywood distributors.”
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Desire: The Carl Craig Story is a portrait of the Detroit techno legend. With Detroit’s decline and recovery as a backdrop, the film follows the career of a musical pioneer whose genre-defying techno has been performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival and in classical auditoriums around the world, including Carnegie Hall. It features contributions from the likes of Gilles Peterson, Roni Size, Laurent Garnier, DJ Minx, Kenny Larkin, Moritz von Oswald and James Lavelle.
“This is truly a film for a global audience,” added Shapiro and Dill. “Carl’s iconic legacy transcends borders and cultures and Jean, Andreas and Dan have made a film that is for music fans of all sorts. ”
Desire is Delaloye’s eighth feature documentary film. His previous, Harley, premiered at Tribeca in 2020 and is distributed by Gravitas Ventures. Desire is produced by Dan Wechsler and Andreas Roald.
Black Box was founded by former CAA and WME vets Dill and Shapiro more than 10 years ago. It most recently signed Israel’s Girl from Oslo director Ofir Lobel and represents a range of writers, directors, actors, comedians and documentarians.