Eva Orner has signed with WME after directing the Netflix original documentary Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator.
Now active in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Demand Film is on a fast growth track.
HRAFF program director Malcolm Blaylock called the film "one of the most important Australian documentaries of 2016."
The Australian premiere season begins in Melbourne on May 5 with the sold out Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (HRAFF) opening night.
The detention-centre documentary will premiere locally May 5 at the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival in Melbourne.
Chasing Asylum goes inside offshore detention centres, and is billed as "the film the Australian government doesn't want you to see", presenting the personal stories of detainees sent to live indefinitely on Manus Island and Nauru.