AFI FEST | Deal for docu "Witch Hunt"
MSNBC Films and Submarine Entertainment have finalized a North American television deal for Dana Nachman and Don Hardy's "Witch Hunt," narrated and exec produced by Sean Penn. "Witch Hunt" will have its U.S. preem at AFI FEST on Sunday.Docu follows eight parents in Bakersfield, CA who were wrongly convicted of child molestation.
MSNBC Films will air the doc in early 2009 after an Oscar-qualifying run in theaters.
Deal marks the second between Josh Braun's Submarine Entertainment and the newly formed MSNBC Films, the channel's initiative to present and produce long-form docs.
Braun also negotiated MSNBC's pickup of Kurt Kuenne's docu "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father." In that deal, MSNBC assisted with P&A for a theatrical run via Oscilloscope Pictures. O-Scope opened "Dear Zachary" this weekend in NY and will follow with a November 7th unspooling in LA.
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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