"White Lion" continues its journey

I've already written about the South African premiere of White Lion - Home... is a Journey; the film was a success and won several awards at local film festivals. Then it came out on DVD at the start of the summer. An attempt to order the disc on Kalahari.net came to nothing — although they do ship discs to our parts, charging more for delivery than the disc itself costs, paying for the order didn't work out; it seems the bank refused to accept the transaction in South African rand (ZAR), and there was no time to sort it out.

Selling the broadcast rights for the rest of the world didn't go smoothly: right away they promised to show it everywhere and negotiations were under way, but there was no word of any positive result. Only recently did it become known that Screen Media had acquired the rights to distribute the film in North America; I already posted a link to this news on Twitter @bigcat_ru. I dropped by their website, where they already have the theatrical premiere date of 15 October 2010 and have posted that same old trailer with the company logo added at the start. I see they changed the film's poster for the American premiere, and accordingly the header on the official site, removing the people from them, making them brighter, and shortening the title to simply White Lion. I put the site header at the top of this post; the trailer from the Screen Media Films site is below the cut.

As I understand it, a theatrical premiere means that in a couple of months a DVD will come out in region one and you'll be able to buy it through Amazon without any problems. I hope they won't cut anything out of the North American version of the film, but given their political correctness...