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In the latest of an avalanche of filmmaker signings out of Sundance, Anouk Whissell, Francois Simard and Yoann-Karl Whissell have signed with Verve. The Canadian trio wrote and directed Turbo Kid. They also are known as RKSS (Road Kill Super Stars). The three wrote and helmed a postapocalyptic film that played in the Midnight Section and might best be described as Mad Max with teens. There are blood-spattered, cartoon-violent scenes with ’80s pop culture and movie homages as a group of friends try to get the best of a sadistic emperor who controls a water supply that has been destroyed by acid rain. I’m told the signing was competitive and that the trio is writing a female revenge thriller that was commissioned through a grant from Telefilm Canada. They also are planning a Turbo Kid sequel. Whissell, Simard and Whissell are in discussions with a small group of distributors and are taking the film to Berlin this week.