Blue Harbor Picks Up ‘Know Your Place’ For August Release
Blue Harbor Entertainment ("Blue Harbor"), announced today that they have acquired distribution rights to writer/director Zia Mohajerjasbi’s award-winning film KNOW YOUR PLACE, a drama about change and loss set amidst the landscape of a transforming Seattle.
The film features all first-time actors, and stars Joseph Smith and Natnael Mebrahtu.
KNOW YOUR PLACE is a slice-of-life drama set in present-day Seattle, WA. Robel Haile (Joseph Smith), an Eritrean American boy of 15, embarks on an errand to deliver a huge and heavy suitcase across town destined for a sick family member in his parents’ homeland. He enlists the help of his best friend Fahmi Tadesse (Natnael Mebrahtu), when an unexpected turn transmutes his simple task into an odyssey across the city of Seattle. The two now have to navigate directions to make his delivery on time, along with the challenges of familial responsibility, self-identification, and dislocation amid the ongoing redevelopment and economic displacement of the only community he’s ever known as home.
KNOW YOUR PLACE had a successful festival run, winning several awards including the Golden Space NeedleAudience Award for Best Film and the New American Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival; Best Narrative Feature at the Florida Film Festival; and the Peter Brunette Award for Directing and Best Ensemble Cast awards at the RiverRun Film Festival.
Blue Harbor is scheduled to open the film in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Royal on August 16, 2024, with a special advance preview screening on August 14th with Mohajerasbi and Mebrahtu attending for a Q&A. The film will roll out regionally through the summer and will open in New York this fall, with a digital release to follow.