# Narrative Global Sales Takes Three Genre Films To AFM Including Jenna Kanell Sci-Fi ‘De Novo’ With Lilly Wachowski Aboard

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- Published: 2026-11-04T17:10:27+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T06:55:12+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/11/jenna-kanell-sci-fi-de-novo-with-lilly-wachowski-aboard-1237213074/
- Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment, Film, Research, Science

## Key points

- Lilly Wachowski joins sci-fi film *De Novo* as an executive producer.
- Narrative Global Sales is taking three genre films to AFM.
- *Father Figure* and *Stabbiest Season* are planned for 2027 production.

## Summary

Narrative Global Sales will take three genre films to the American Film Market, including the science-fiction film *De Novo*, which is in post-production. Lilly Wachowski’s Anarchists United has joined as executive producer, alongside filmmakers Sarah Marie Flores and Lawrence Mattis; the project is one of three titles under the firm’s genre label Chroma.

Written and directed by Jenna Kanell, *De Novo* follows a reclusive scientist studying fungi who discovers she is trapped in a simulation after a cosmic event. Justin Chien, Alexis Louder and Frank Crim also star, with *Coherence* filmmaker James Ward Byrkit among the executive producers. The other titles are *Father Figure*, a Fantastic Fest 2026 Fantastic Pitches winner about an elopement interrupted by a death cult, and *Stabbiest Season*, a Christmas-set horror film; both are aiming to shoot in 2027.

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