Altitude is handling international sales and UK and Irish distribution on Participant’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Academy Award-winner Laura Poitras’ new documentary about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin.
Altitude Film Sales will present the film to international buyers at the upcoming Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals. NEON recently announced that they will release the film in North America. Altitude Film Distribution will announce a UK and Irish release date soon.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is described as “an epic, emotional story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography and rare footage of her fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis. The film interweaves Goldin’s past and present, the deeply personal and urgently political, from P.A.I.N.’s actions at renowned art institutions to Goldin’s photography of her friends and peers through her epic The Ballad of Sexual Dependency and her legendary 1989, NEA-censored AIDS exhibition Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing.”
Poitras’ documentary will world premiere at Venice where it will compete for the Golden Lion. It will then continue its run at the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival, where it will be featured as the festival’s Centerpiece.
The theatrical release of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed will coincide with “This Will Not End Well” a major retrospective of Goldin’s work opening in October at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, which is scheduled to embark on an international tour of museums that includes the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (August 31, 2023–January 28, 2024), the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (October 2024–March 2025) and Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan (March–July 2025).
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is produced by Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov and Laura Poitras. Executive Producers are Participant’s Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann; Clare Carter; Alex Kwartler; and Hayley Theisen.
The deal was negotiated by Rob Williams, VP, Content Sales, and Adam Macy, Senior Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs for Participant; and Mike Runagall for Altitude.
