Saidam Baryl and Argentic Productions have signed a co-production agreement on “Thaw,” a folk-horror feature written and directed by Yakutian filmmaker Stepan Burnashev. The deal, signed at the American Film Market ( AFM ), represents what is believed to be the first narrative feature co-production between a Yakut and an American film company. The mystical thriller takes place in a remote Yakutian village, where an American filmmaker investigating thawing permafrost gets caught up in a local