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Slaters Sign Distribution Deal

Fri, Oct 07, 2011

Slaters Sign Distribution Deal

Variety reports that Slater Brothers Entertainment -- organizers of the annual Hamilton International Film Festival -- is getting into the distribution business next year with the movie My Uncle Rafael.

Slater brothers Todd, Grant and Wade grew up in Hamilton. Their father Terry was longtime men's hockey coach at Colgate.

The company, producer on House of Dust and upcoming Elvis Presley biopic Fame and Fortune, closed a deal for a North American theatrical release and worldwide representation of the film that is the first American comedy with an Armenian lead character.

Written by Scott Yagemann and Vahik Pirhamzei, My Uncle Rafael follows an old Armenian uncle who gets cast in a reality show and has one week to save a dysfunctional American family from breaking up. It is directed and edited by filmmaker and former Spielberg assistant Marc Fusco, and stars Missi Pyle, John Michael Higgins, Anthony Clark, Joe Lo Truglio, Rachel Blanchard and Pirhamzei as the title character.

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