EXCLUSIVE: Vorteks, the genre label of Dubai-based sales agency Cercamon, has acquired international rights outside North America for Brea Grant and Ed Dougherty’s horror satire Grind.
The acquisition comes hot on the heels of the movie’s buzzy debut in the Midnighter section of SXSW last month.
Digging into the anxieties of the modern workplace, Grind revolves around four interconnected characters: a worker at a multi-level marketing business, a food delivery driver, a content moderator, and coffee shop staffer navigating the perils of unionizing at a familiar-feeling brand.
Deadline’s Damon Wise praised the film in his SXSW review for its “ingenious” tackling of the gig economy.
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‘Grind has a very fluid structure, using its premise as a linking device rather than a theme, breaking things up into disparate chapters… the structure is built to absorb it, creating
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