MUBI ACQUIRES PARTICIPANT’S VISIONARY DOCUMENTARY ‘INVISIBLE DEMONS’ FEATURED AT THIS YEAR’S CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

November 3, 2021 – MUBI has acquired North American and select international rights to Participant’s powerful climate change documentary Invisible Demons. The acclaimed film, directed by filmmaker Rahul Jain (Machines), received its World Premiere at this year’s Cannes Official Selection, followed by festival screenings at the Zurich Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival, among others. The US premiere will be held at DOC NYC in November. MUBI will release Invisible Demons in 2022 in select US theaters and on its streaming platform in North America, United Kingdom, Latin America, Germany, Turkey, Malaysia, and India.

Told through striking images and eye-opening accounts from everyday citizens fighting to survive, Invisible Demons offers a new perspective on the clear and present climate reality. The film delivers a visceral and immersive journey through the devastating effects of climate change, explored through the stories of just a few of Delhi’s 30 million inhabitants. Jain engages the senses by directly stimulating our desire to live in a world with equitable access to clean air and water.

“We are very proud of Rahul’s documentary which was incredibly well received at Cannes this year,” said David Linde, Participant’s CEO. “Having an innovative distributor like MUBI showcase his look at the climate crisis will magnify this important work to a worldwide audience, all of whom are facing a new climate reality.”

Invisible Demons implores audiences to examine the increasingly urgent global climate crisis, an issue Participant has been devoted to addressing through previous films including An Inconvenient Truth and Dark Waters.

Invisible Demons was executive produced and co-financed by Participant. It was produced by Toinen Katse and Ma.Ja.De. FilmProduktions, with support from FFF-MDM-YLE-AVEK. Producers are Iikka Vehkalahti and Heino Deckert, and Yaël Bitton served as editor and co-wrote alongside Vehkalahti and Jain. Participant and MK2 Films are handling global sales. MUBI, Participant’s Rob Williams, and MK2’s Fionnuala Jamison negotiated the deal.

Invisible Demons is one of the latest films MUBI has acquired for various international rights this year, including festival opener Annette from Leos Carax, Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta, Joachim Trier’s Worst Person in the World, Bergman Island from Mia Hansen-Løve, Andrea Arnold’s Cow, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb, Titane from Julia Ducournau and Sebastien Meise’s Great Freedom.

Participant’s other recent film releases include Stillwater, starring Matt Damon, which also had its premiere at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival alongside Invisible Demons, and the documentaries My Name Is Pauli Murray, which is now in theaters and Amazon Prime, The First Wave, and Flee which will both be released in theaters this fall.

ABOUT MUBI MUBI is a streaming service, a film distributor and a production company. But mostly, MUBI is a place to discover beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema. A new hand-picked film arrives on MUBI every single day. Cinema from all over the globe, from all kinds of directors. From brand new work by emerging filmmakers, to modern masterpieces from today’s greatest icons. All carefully chosen by MUBI’s curators. MUBI also produces and distributes ambitious new films, which members can watch exclusively on the platform. MUBI is the biggest community of film lovers, available across 190 countries, with more than 10 million members around the world. Subscription plans are $10.99 a month or $83.88 for 12 months. MUBI is available on the web, Roku devices, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, LG and Samsung Smart TVs, as well as on mobile devices including iPad, iPhone and Android.

ABOUT PARTICIPANT Founded by Chairman Jeff Skoll and under the leadership of CEO David Linde, Participant (www.participant.com) combines the power of a good story well told with real world impact and awareness around today’s most vital issues. Through its worldwide network of traditional and digital distribution, aligned with partnerships with key non-profit and NGO organizations, Participant speaks directly to the rise of today’s “conscious consumer,” representing the well over 2 billion consumers compelled to make meaningful content a priority focus.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, six documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 20 hours of digital short form programming. Participant’s more than 100 films have collectively earned 82 Academy Award® nominations and 21 wins, including Best Picture for Spotlight and Green Book; Best Documentary Feature for An Inconvenient Truth, CITIZENFOUR, The Cove and American Factory; and Best Foreign Language Film for Roma and A Fantastic Woman. Follow Participant on Twitter (@Participant) and on Facebook and Instagram.

ABOUT MK2 FILMS Every year, mk2 Films coproduces, sells and distributes a dozen new films by established or promising upcoming directors such as The Worst Person in the World, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Cold War, Atlantics and Ash is Purest White.

mk2 Films distributes a unique library of 800 films in France and around the world, including both fictions and documentaries. A rich collection which includes films from Charles Chaplin, François Truffaut, Abbas Kiarostami, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, Krzysztof Kieślowski, David Lynch, Michael Haneke, Gus Van Sant, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Olivier Assayas – to name but a few…

The whole film collection also counts some of the major films of the history of cinema and a large number of classic films restored in 2K, 4K and 4K UHDTM: from the very pioneers of the industry, such as D.W. Griffith and Alice Guy-Blaché, to Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton and up to today’s most acclaimed directors such as Jia Zhang-Ke, Joachim Trier, Céline Sciamma, Pawel Pawlowski, Xavier Dolan and Mati Diop.

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