BLOODY TENNIS Sells to Shudder and Six Territories Ahead of Locarno World Premiere

The English-language horror debut of director Nikias Chryssos has been sold to Shudder for the United States, with additional deals closed in Australia, the Baltics, Italy, Japan, Poland, and Scandinavia, ahead of its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival.

After being admitted to an elite tennis academy hidden deep in Southern Europe, Sophie (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) must contend not only with the fierce brutality of her teammates, but with the school's increasingly sinister undercurrents, where competitive sports are pushed to their painful limits and only the hungriest survive.

Starring Sandra Guldberg Kampp (FOUNDATION), Golden Globe nominee Helena Zengel (NEWS OF THE WORLD, THE LEGEND OF OCHI), Tracy Gotoas (SAFE HOUSE), Lucie Zhang (PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT), Lily Taieb (THE FRENCH DISPATCH, BERGMAN ISLAND), Elina Löwensohn (SCHINDLER'S LIST), and Zlatko Burić (TRIANGLE OF SADNESS), with an original score by Jim Williams (TITANE, RAW, POSSESSOR).

BLOODY TENNIS is a production of augenschein Filmproduktion (Maximilian Leo, Jonas Katzenstein) in co-production with Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion and ZDF - Das Kleine Fernsehspiel. The film was shot in Gran Canaria, Spain, and North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with Volcano Films providing production services in Spain. The production was supported by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), and the Canary Islands tax incentive program. Port au Prince will distribute the film in Germany.