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Exclusive: Vmi Releasing, the North American distribution arm of Vmi Worldwide, has hired Dan Fisher as Executive Vice President.

Fisher has previously served as Director of Worldwide Acquisitions for Entertainment One, Senior Director of Acquisitions for Gravitas Ventures, and VP of Acquisitions for Freestyle Digital Media. Before Vmi Releasing, he was the founder and principal of Poppy Pictures, a boutique film distribution and sales consulting firm. He also recently served as a visiting professor of film at Kenyon College in Ohio.

Vmi Worldwide launched in 2010 under CEO Andre Relis. They’ve produced titles such as Darkness of Man, The Price We Pay, The Last Son, Come Out Fighting, Arkansas, Wander, and The Humanity Bureau. Vmi Releasing first launched in 2021. They have released Freaks vs The Reich, a Venice 2021 selection, Defining Moments, starring Burt Reynolds in his final performance, Death on the Border, starring Shannon Elizabeth and Danny Trejo. Vmi’s...

Windy Wilkin’s Death on the Border is a thought-provoking movie that forces you to contemplate one of the real dangers and problems of society: child trafficking. It’s common knowledge that scores of young girls and children are trafficked every year. These young girls are forced into prostitution or are sold to high-paying clients. Death on the Border isn’t entirely fictional but draws inspiration from real events. This makes Windy Wilkin’s film all the more haunting, realizing the ordeal all those women and girls had to go through. At the beginning of the film, Maddy (Shannon Elizabeth) is picked up by a child trafficker who is smuggling young girls over the border. The trafficker tried to force himself on Maddy, but she killed him with the gun she was hiding in her boots. Maddy freed the girls and asked one of them to drive until they were safe.

Exclusive: Danny Trejo (Machete), Shannon Elizabeth (American Pie) and Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction) have joined the cast of Alone Today, an upcoming crime drama from director Wendy Wilkins.

Inspired by true events, Alone Today is the story of a woman (Elizabeth) in an abusive relationship with a dirty detective (Whaley) who is helping move sex trafficked girls coming over the Mexican Border. When attempting to save just one truck load before “disappearing forever” everything goes horribly wrong and she decides to take a different path.

The project hails from Different Duck Films founder Rob Margolies (Bobcat Moretti), who will produce. The film will begin filming in Los Angeles this winter.

Wilkins is a former law enforcement official and the author of memoir Sex, Love & Cops: A Memoir Of My Five Years As A Young Cop, a collection of stories of when she was a real life cop.

“As a former police officer,...