“Porcupine Lake” has secured U.S. distribution. While several companies expressed interest in the project, it was Breaking Glass Pictures that snagged the rights to Ingrid Veninger’s coming-of-age drama about two 13-year-old girls. According to a press release announcing the news, negotiations began after the film’s sold-out world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The film follows Kate (Lucinda Armstrong Hal) and Bea (Charlotte Salisbury), two girls who meet in small-town Ontario, Canada and develop an intense friendship that evolves into something that’s no longer platonic. After sharing secrets and participating in daredevil challenges, the pair “have irrevocably influenced each other, and the course of their lives has changed in ways they can’t yet foresee,” “Porcupine Lake’s” synopsis hints. Veninger penned the script.

“I’d like people not only to remember being 13, but actually have some kind of physical chemical reaction and feel 13 again — complete with hot flashes of uncertainty, confusion, and great beauty,” Veninger said of the film in an interview with us. “Ultimately, I’d like people to have a heart-trip.”

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Veninger’s previous credits include “He Hated Pigeons,” “I am a Good Person/I am a Bad Person,” and “Only.” In 2014 she initiated the pUNK Films Femmes Lab, which fosters films written and directed by Canadian women.