Arclight Films has more than 20 years’ experience as a top-flight international sales agent, handling films including First Reformed and Lord Of War, genre fare such as Wolf Creek, and Asian titles Öndög and Furie via its Darclight label.

The Australia-born Gary Hamilton has been developing, packaging and producing for a while, and is steering his company more aggressively into this area. Projects include the critically acclaimed terrorism thriller Hotel Mumbai starring Dev Patel and Armie Hammer. Hamilton packaged the project as an Australian production from his Hamilton Entertainment with Electric Pictures Productions and US-based Thunder Road Pictures, and corralled Australian subsidies, private equity and pre-sales. Bleecker Street distributed in the US in early 2019.

With the help of the South Australian Film Corporation, Arclight co-financed the UK-Australia co-production Escape From Pretoria with Daniel Radcliffe after working with the UK actor on thriller Jungle.

“In order to achieve the highest level of creativity within the budget restraints, we can’t stress enough the importance of excellent global partners and relationships, such as our relationship with Screen Australia,” says Hamilton. Coming up is war thriller Killer 10 with Australian director Phillip Noyce, and multiple productions and co-productions lined up over the next year in Australia, the UK, Puerto Rico, Serbia and the US.