International Film Trust (IFT)

International Film Trust (IFT) is an international sales and distribution company operated by producers for producers with over 20 years of experience in producing, finance, international sales and distribution.

IFT is currently in pre-production on crime thriller CAPTIVATED starring Academy Award® winner Al Pacino, to be directed by Dito Montiel (Sundance winner A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS); and in post-production on psychological thriller THE PATIENT, helmed by Ryan Phillippe (Shooter, CRUEL INTENTIONS) and Kate Beckinsale (UNDERWORLD, LOVE & FRIENDSHIP).

IFT's slate also includes action comedy SHOWDOWN AT THE GRAND, starring Academy Award® nominee Terrence Howard (Empire) and Dolph Lundgren (THE EXPENDABLES franchise), released by Shout! Studios in 2023; action-thriller DANGEROUS, starring Scott Eastwood (SUICIDE SQUAD), Mel Gibson (LETHAL WEAPON franchise), Famke Janssen (TAKEN franchise) and Tyrese Gibson (FAST & FURIOUS franchise), released in the U.S. and select international territories by Lionsgate; Mena Suvari (AMERICAN BEAUTY)-helmed GRACE AND GRIT, based on the worldwide bestselling book by Ken Wilber; Sundance 2019 competition select TO THE STARS, starring MANCHESTER BY THE SEA's Kara Hayward along with Liana Liberato (THE BEST OF ME), two-time Veep Emmy® winner Tony Hale, Jordana Spiro (Netflix’s Ozark), Malin Akerman (Showtime’s Billions), Shea Whigham (JOKER), Lucas Jade Zumann (Netflix's Anne with an E), and Adelaide Clemens (SundanceTV’s Rectify), released by Samuel Goldwyn Films in April 2020; mystery-thriller THE BAY OF SILENCE, starring THE SQUARE breakout Claes Bang (THE NORTHMAN), Olga Kurylenko (DEATH OF STALIN) and Brian Cox (HBO's Succession), directed by Paula van der Oest (Foreign Language Academy Award® nominee ZUS & ZO), released by Vertical Entertainment in 2020;

Family rom-com I HATE KIDS, starring Tom Everett Scott (THAT THING YOU DO, LA LA LAND), Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), newcomer Julian Feder and Rachel Boston (500 DAYS OF SUMMER); AGAINST THE CLOCK (fka HEADLOCK), a spy-fy thriller starring Dianna Agron (Glee), Justin Bartha (the HANGOVER trilogy) and Andy Garcia (OCEAN'S THIRTEEN), theatrically released in January 2019 by Gravitas Ventures; HAUNTING ON FRATERNITY ROW (fka PARTY CRASHER), a frat house horror directed by Brant Sersen (SANATORIUM), produced by Michael Benaroya (LAWLESS) and Sarah Victor Yaffe of Unique Features, the company behind A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, released theatrically by Vertical Entertainment in 2018; AND THEN I GO aka TRIGGERED, based on the best-selling novel "Project X" by Jim Sheridan, starring Justin Long (BARBARIAN), Melanie Lynskey (HBO's The Last of Us), and newcomers Arman Darbo and Sawyer Barth, which premiered at the LA Film Festival 2017 and was released by The Orchard in the US in April 2018; WHEELER starring Stephen Dorff (SOMEWHERE) and Kris Kristofferson, released by eOne/Momentum in February 2017; UNLESS starring Catherine Keener (JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX), which premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival; SALT AND FIRE, directed by legendary filmmaker and Academy Award® nominee Werner Herzog (CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, INTO THE INFERNO), starring two-time Academy Award® nominee Michael Shannon (NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL) and Golden Globe® winner Gael García Bernal (AMORES PERROS, Mozart in the Jungle), which premiered in Special Presentation at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

CELL, based on the Stephen King bestseller, directed by Tod Williams (PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2), starring John Cusack (LOVE & MERCY) and Samuel L. Jackson (THE HATEFUL EIGHT), released theatrically in the U.S. by Saban Films and Lionsgate in July 2016; CYMBELINE, a modern day Shakespeare adaptation starring Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke (BOYHOOD), Academy Award® nominee Ed Harris (THE HOURS), Milla Jovovich (RESIDENT EVIL) and Dakota Johnson (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY), directed by Michael Almereyda (HAMLET), produced by Academy Award® winner Anthony Katagas (12 YEARS A SLAVE) alongside Michael Benaroya (MARGIN CALL), which premiered at the 2014 Venice Film Festival and was released theatrically in the U.S. by Grindstone and Lionsgate in March 2015; SOME VELVET MORNING, written and directed by Neil LaBute (THE WICKER MAN), starring Alice Eve (STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS) and Academy Award® nominee Stanley Tucci (THE HUNGER GAMES series), which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival and was released theatrically by Tribeca Films in the U.S. and internationally by Sony in 2014.