NEON, the award-winning studio behind some of the most daring and celebrated films of the last nine years, announced today that, in the first big deal out of Sundance, it has acquired the worldwide rights to writer/director Adrian Chiarella’s’ (Dwarf Planet) feature-length directorial debut Leviticus starring Joe Bird (Talk To Me), Stacy Clausen (Crazy Fun Park), Jeremy Blewitt (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart),  Ewen Leslie (The Nightingale), Davida McKenzie (Silent Night), Nicholas Hope (Bad Boy Bubby), Zahra Newman (Thirteen Lives) and Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland). The queer horror film premiered this week in the Midnight Section at Sundance to rave reviews. NEON will release the film theatrically later this year and represent the international sales rights to the film.

In Leviticus, two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most – each other.

The film is produced by Talk to Me producers, Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton at Causeway Films,and Hannah Ngo. Causeway Films also financed the film. The deal was negotiated by Sarah Colvin for NEON and Will Maxfield and Dab McIntosh WME Independent on behalf of the filmmakers.