Shout! Factory Films joins the Foreign Animation Distribution Game with "Long Way North"

Shout! Factory Films has gotten the rights to release the French animated feature film  Long Way North in the U.S.. Shout! will release the film in theaters sometime in Fall 2016, tough the film will have an earlier release at  New York International Children’s Film Festival on February 26th. Shout will also be in charge of the film's U.S. Blu-Ray/DVD/Amazon Prime/Netflix releases as well. They will also be in charge of English Dubs as well.

Long Way North is directed by Rémi Chayé. This is his debut as a director, but he has been an assistant director on two fantastic movies, Tomm Moore's The Secrect of Kells, and Jean-François Laguionie's The Painting.

I am excited about this and hope that Shout! Factory Films, will do this with more foreign animation in the future.

-Michael J. Ruhland