Visit Films has acquired international distribution rights to the American film “Mouse,” which had its world premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival and will also be screened at European film markets.
The film is directed by Kelly O’Sullivan (Ghostlight) and Alex Thompson (St. Francis, Rounding, Ghostlight) and is repped in the US by Gersh’s Jessica Lacey and Bert Walker.
The film stars Academy Award nominee and Tony Award winner Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda, The Secret Life of Bees), Katherine Mullen Kupferer (Is There a God? It’s Me, Margaret, Ghostlight), Chloe Coleman (Avatar: Waterways, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor of Thieves), and Tara Mullen (Ghostlight). Iman Vellani (“Marvels”) and David Hyde Pierce (“Frasier”).
The film depicts Callie and Minnie’s relationship, which is suddenly turned upside down at the beginning of the summer before their senior year of high school. Displaced without her charismatic best friend, Minnie begins to form a complicated friendship with Callie’s mother.
The film was produced by Chelsea Crant (The Nickel Boys, Ghostlight), Pierce Cravens (Oh Hello, Ghostlight, St. Francis), and Alex Thompson (Rounding, Ghostlight), and starred Abigail Rose Solomon, Bonnie Comrie (Titanic: The Musical), Stewart F. Lane (Titanic: The Musical), and Stephen A. Jones. (Harvest), Ian Kaiser (St. Francis, Ghostlight, The Alchemist Cookbook), Alex Wilson (Ghostlight, Rounding). Corporate credits include O’Sullivan and Thompson’s Little Engine, Metropolitan Entertainment, Rosalind Productions, and Runaway Train.
O’Sullivan’s first screenplay, St. Francis, premiered at SXSW and won the Audience Award and Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Voice in 2019. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 Newcomers in Independent Film and was named Best in Film at Lincoln Center’s 2019 Artist Academy.
Ghostlight, which O’Sullivan wrote and co-directed with Thompson, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and was selected as one of the top 10 best independent films by the National Board of Review. After a theatrical release distributed by IFC Films, it is currently available on Hulu. The film was nominated for both the Gotham Award and the Independent Spirit Award.
Thompson directed and produced “St. Francis.” His second feature film, Rounding, premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and was recently distributed by Music Box Films.
