Angel Studios has drawn up a deal for Seth Worleys Sketch.

The company behind the box office phenomenon Sound of Freedom confirmed during its CinemaCon presentation at Caesars Palace on Wednesday morning that it has acquired the film for distribution and set a release date for Aug. 6.

Written and directed by Worley, Sketch stars Tony Hale, DArcy Carden, Bianca Belle and Kue Lawrence in the story of a single dad who is swept up in an insane adventure when his daughters comically dark drawings come to life and terrorize their small town. Hale also produced with Steve Taylor and Dusty Brown. Sketch debuted at last Septembers Toronto International Film Festival to critical raves. If you were to take the wide-eyed wonder of a Steven Spielberg, the impish mischief of a Joe Dante, plus the vibrant visuals of prime Pixar and somehow blitz them together in a Magic Bullet blender, the resulting concoction might well resemble Sketch, an audaciously gonzo first feature by Seth Worley, wrote The Hollywood Reporters film critic Michael Rechtshaffen, who praised it as dazzlingly inventive.

Worley, who has a long list of short films to his credit, released a directors statement about the film, revealing that Sketch is a passion project that took seven years to make. Ive made a movie that is 100 percent me, and I still cant figure out how to describe it to people, he wrote. Executives, producers, and financiers would read this movie and either interpret it as The Babadook if it were inappropriately funny and warm or Goosebumps if it were too good and weirdly dark. But to me, its Inside Out meets Jurassic Park. It challenges stigmas surrounding grief and explores childhood emotions, the darker places they can go, and how we live our lives in the wake of trauma.

He continued: This movie is my childhood. This movie is my kids. If I only get to make one movie in my life, this is the one. Its weird, its thrilling, its funny, its deeply emotional, and hopefully, Ive put enough of myself into it for you to find yourself in it, too.

CinemaCon, the annual gathering of cinema owners and Hollywood studios, is hosted in Las Vegas by the newly rebranded Cinema United, which for decades was known as the National Association of Theatre Owners. This years edition runs from March 31 to April 3.