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Lightening Entertainment pick up International sales rights to NIGHTSHOOTERS

Lightening Entertainment has picked up International sales rights to Ascendant Releasing’s Martial Arts action film starring upcoming action star and SAG Nominated (Jailbreak).

“We’re delighted to be working with Lightening Entertainment on NIGHTSHOOTERS. They immediately saw the same potential in Marc Price’s vision for the film that we did, and they’re the prefect partners for this. We hope this is the first of many collaborations between us” says Bart Ruspoli of Ascendant.

Andrew Brown, head of sales at Lightening commented: ‘’Lightening are thrilled to be working with such a talented and exciting team on internationally award winning director Marc Price’s third film. Together with Jean-Paul Ly, touted as one of the biggest action stars of his generation, and a fantastic cast, the team have delivered a stunning blend of superb martial arts action with the very best of a British gangster film!”

NIGHTSHOOTERS wrapped production in early January and will be released in the UK in July of this year by Ascendant Releasing.

About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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