MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures has acquired worldwide rights of Participant Media‘s documentary Waiting For Superman.
The studio had been tracking the project and will release it in the US in autumn through Paramount Vantage, which distributed Guggenheim‘s environmental warning An Inconvenient Truth in 2006.

Waiting For Superman screens in the US Documentary Competition at the Sundanance Film Festival and while examining the stricken US public education system, explores innovative alternatives.

Bill Gates is featured and is understood to have been a factor in the film lapping up by Paramount. The acquisition demonstrates Paramount‘s healthy appetite for documentaries of late.

In December Josh Braun‘s Submarine that is handling sales in Sundance of the Participant Media documentaries Cane Toads: The Conquest and Countdown To Zero, among other films, sold the cyber thriller talhotblond to Paramount Digital Entertainment.