Carlton Films is a Canadian feature and documentary film distributor. The company was established in Quebec in November 2004 with the aim of handling the theatrical release of Lakefront (2004) and the television and DVD sales of Women Without Wings (2002) which was produced by our sister company Cinegraphe Productions Inc. The company launched the Cinegraphe / News-Cast.Com comedy feature The Backup Man in eight cities across Canada in October and November 2007.
The company acquires features and documentaries for distribution in Canada. Since the company is active in Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Carlton focuses most of its attention on Atlantic Canada and Quebec/Ontario using sub-distributors for Western Canada.
New comedy releases include the Canada/Uruguay feature co-production 14 Days in Paradise starring Nicholas Campbell, Jeff Roop and Patricia Wolf which opened on two screens in the Toronto area on April 25, 2008 and the French version of The Backup Man ( L'Acolyte ) starring Dennis Cutts and Isabelle Cyr which will open in the fall on some 20 screens across Quebec.
Carlton is also handling sales of the new Welsh period drama, Small Country - Calon Gaeth , based on a novel by Siân James and directed by Ashley Way. The series will be available as a 110-minute TV movie or as a 4 x 52 minute TV series. This is a turn of the century story of love and abandonment with a brilliant ensemble cast in the Welsh and English language (English sub-titles).
Furthermore, prebuys for Carlton in 2008 include Killing Ruth - the Snuff Dialogues, a feature film shooting this summer starring Irena Huljak and the American Dee Wallace; My Best Friend's Deception , a feature comedy written by the American Robert Fleet shooting in September; and Stray Dogs , a feature comedy written by David Laing Dawson and directed by Doug Sutherland shooting later in the year. Carlton is also developing a TV drama series Cottage in America (26 x 24 minute episodes) with a cast of American, Canadian and Albanian actors. This is a black comedy in the genre of the Sopranos and tells the story of an upscale Albanian immigrant family who move from the city to a cottage on a lake inherited from their uncle and have to adjust to life among an outrageous bunch of misfits.
