We are thrilled to announce that we have picked up Norwegian dramedy and Kristoffer Borgli´s debut feature DRIB.
Kristoffer Borgli first made a name for himself with the award winning short film WHATEVEREST (2012) which became a festival darling and an internet phenomenon. In DRIB Borgli continues to play with reality, mixing real life events and characters with online phenomena and a fictional elaboration. More specifically Borgli takes on the real life story of how his good friend Amir almost ended up as the international face of a well known energy drink, as the basis for a fiction/documentary hybrid, which tracks how art becomes commerce, how fiction becomes fact, and how something fake can have very real effects. The film stars artist and stand-up comedian Amir Asgharnejad, Brett Gelman (JOBS, 2013; MAD MEN, 2015; TWIN PEAKS, 2017) and internet activist Adam Pearson (UNDER THE SKIN, 2013).
Head of Sales, Susan Wendt says: We are very excited to be working on this very original and unique film directed by such a talented and up-and-coming director such as Kristoffer.
We really believe in both the film and Kristoffer and are convinced that DRIB will travel the world, both within the festival circuit as well as in distribution.
Amir is a performance artist and stand-up comedian who creates real characters and stories that unfold online in media real time. When his staged fight videos from the streets of Oslo go viral and hit international news headlines in 2014, a Los Angeles based advertising agency thinks it´s all real and spots an opportunity to exploit Amir´s newfound controversial fame. They want to make it part of an edgy marketing campaign for an energy drink, but Amir has his own plans. Amir plays himself in this reenactment of what happened in LA - fictionalized just enough to avoid legal complications. Hopefully...
The film is produced by Magne Lyngner and Riina Spørring Zachariassen for Bacon OSL in co-production with Steakhaus Productions and in association with Lovechild with support from Nye veier at the Norwegian Film Institute.