Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Elizabeth Lo‘s “Mistress Dispeller,” a brand new documentary that had its world premiere on the Venice Movie Competition. Produced by Nameless Content material and Influence Companions, the movie follows a girl in China who’s determined to avoid wasting her marriage. She hires knowledgeable to go undercover and break up her husband’s affair. Lo had intimate entry to all of the gamers on this household drama, enabling her to discover it from all sides of a love triangle.

“Mistress Dispeller” picked up two awards in Venice, earlier than screening at festivals together with Toronto, Camden, Chicago, DOC NYC, and Camerimage, the place it received the Golden Frog Grand Prix for Finest Documentary Function. It obtained greater than a dozen competition awards, in addition to a number of nominations on the Cinema Eye Honors 2024. It should play subsequent at CPH:DOX 2025. Oscilloscope Laboratories will launch the movie in choose theaters later this yr.

It’s the sophomore characteristic for Lo, who beforehand directed 2021’s “Stray,” a have a look at the lives of avenue canine in Istanbul. Critics beloved her newest movie, with Selection raving, “‘Mistress Dispeller’ culminates in a lovely ultimate act, as everybody — the viewers included — walks away with one thing rewarding and reflective.”

The movie’s producing staff of “Mistress Dispeller” consists of Lo, Emma D. Miller and Maggie Li. The movie is a manufacturing of After Argos Movies and Marcona Media. Nameless Content material and Influence Companions is presenting the movie in affiliation with CMP and The Concordia Studio Fellowship. Charlotte Munch Bengtsen edited the image.

Government producers embrace Jenny Raskin, Kelsey Koenig, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Nick Shumaker, Jessica Grimshaw, David Levine, Daybreak Olmstead, Rahdi Taylor, Davis Guggenheim, Steve Cohen, and Paula Froehle. Lauren Haber and Marni E. J. Grossman served as co-executive producers.

“We’re thrilled to launch ‘Mistress Dispeller’ with Oscilloscope, whose ardour and enduring dedication to distributing unbiased movies in cinemas is what each filmmaker desires of and what our trade wants,” Lo stated. “We’re so proud to accomplice with them to deliver this movie about love and household to audiences throughout the U.S.”

“We have now been admirers of Elizabeth’s work for a very long time,” Aaron Katz, vp of acquisitions at Oscilloscope Laboratories stated. “She creates intimate, vivid, and touching documentaries, which Mistress Dispeller lives as much as totally. What she was in a position to seize on this movie is an sincere have a look at trendy love with out judgement, filled with the enjoyment, complication, humor, and heartache that’s inherent in any relationship. We all know this documentary will shock viewers, spark dialog, and go away an enduring impression on audiences.”

Katz represented Oscilloscope throughout negotiations for the rights to the movie, whereas Nameless Content material represented the filmmakers by way of the corporate’s gross sales and finance arm AC Unbiased.

Lo is represented by Gersh and Nameless Content material.