Mubi has snapped up rights across multiple territories on Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger, the Martin Scorsese-narrated doc set to debut this week at the Berlin Film Festival.
Under the deal, the global film distributor, production company, and streaming service will retain all rights in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, LATAM, Turkey and India. Altitude is releasing in UK and Irish cinema on May 10.
The deal was done between Altitude and Mubi. The streamer said it will announce specific details about the doc’s release in the coming months.
Directed by two-time BAFTA and Emmy-winning David Hinton, the film is narrated by Scorsese and is described as the filmmaker’s “personal and moving look at two of British cinema’s greatest filmmakers.”
Producing, writing, and directing, Powell and Pressburger created some of the most revered films of the British golden age, including The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life and Death and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. In the words of Scorsese, their films were “grand, poetic, wise, adventurous, headstrong, enraptured by beauty, deeply romantic, and completely uncompromising.”
Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger debuts in the Berlinale Specials sidebar on Wednesday. Killers Of The Flower Moon director Scorsese will be present in the German capital, where he will also receive the festival’s honorary Golden Bear.
Producers on the doc are Nick Varley and Matthew Wells. Exec producers are Olivia Harrison, Will Clarke, Thomas Hoegh, Scorsese, Claudia Yusef, Eva Yates, Mark Thomas, Charles Cohen, and Thelma Schoonmaker, Scorsese’s longtime editor and the former wife of Michael Powell.
Last week, we shared the first official look at the doc here. The clip features Scorsese breaking down his early and unique introduction to Powell And Pressburger’s work. The footage also debuts some of the rare archival material from the personal collections of Powell, Pressburger, and Scorsese that pop up throughout the rest of the doc.
The Berlin Film Festival runs until February 25.
