Why Lionsgate should back our thriller

I think that Lionsgate would probably take on my thriller movie, “Sofia” for many different reasons. For one, they specialise in thrillers. Sofia is a unique film that may have a story that has been touched upon before, but shows it in a unique way. Like, Taken, it is about sex trafficking and a girls escape, but Sofia has a twist. Instead Sofia concentrates on showing the dirtier, grimier, darker sides that most other films have tried to leave out. We want to show the girls journey, along with every detail, the way she is thrown around, being forced to inject heroin and take other illegal substances. We plan to show every struggle that Sofia has to go through. The film can be made on a reasonably low budget but the reason Lionsgate should choose this thriller is because we have faith that it would go to the US. The story is a classic favourite of a lot of the US population and our audience would be a wide variety, anyone from the ages of 18 to 50 would enjoy this thriller if they were a thriller fan to start with. Lionsgate also have a history of creating successful films on a low budget, such as the saw films. They also have a history of dvd sales in films that dont make it to cinema. So as a back up, if our film is not mainstream and high pop culture, then through their successful marketing and distribution this film help our film find an audience. Our film is set in england but is about a european issue, therefor it is a storyline that would appeal to a worldwide audience and Lionsgate will provide that ability to distribute and market our film to that audience, unlike, a british company like "Warp" who would need to work in partnership to find european and world wide distribution. Warp would be good if we were making a film for a british niche audience, but we feel that our film could cross over and appeal to a wider audience.