New York City-based global documentary film sales agent Cargo Film & Releasing has nabbed world rights, excluding Denmark and Sweden, to Mads Hedegaard’s feature length documentary debut “Canno…
The feel-good film centers on Kim Cannon Arm, who is not your average grandpa. With killer hand-eye coordination and a mean mullet, he’s a legendary fixture at Copenhagen’s Bip Bip Bar, and renowned for playing the 80s arcade game Gyruss for 49 hours straight on a single coin. With help from his buddies at the bar, a community of outsiders who support one another no matter what, Kim attempts to obliterate his previous record and play for 100 consecutive hours – or four days.
Hedegaard commented: “Probably not everyone in the audience has an interest in video games or arcade games, but that’s okay, because you don’t need to — I don’t either. Ultimately, I feel that it has ended up as a film filled with warmth and subtle wit as well as the natural excitement that comes from all record attempts.”
The film is produced by Good Company Pictures’ Katrine A. Sahlstrøm, whose credits include films such as “Ai Weiwei — The Fake Case,” which was shortlisted for the main prize at IDFA in 2014, “Photographer of War,” and “Beautiful Something Left Behind,” the winner of the Grand Jury prize for best documentary at SXSW in 2020.