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XTR (company)
''XTR'' is an American film production company founded in 2019 by Bryn Mooser. The company is best known for producing films '' Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado'' (2020), ''Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets'' (2020), '' The Fight'' (2020), ''76 Days'' (2020), and '' Ascension'' (2021). History In September 2019, it was announced Bryn Mooser had launched ''XTR'' a film and television production company specializing in documentaries. Apart from financing and producing films, XTR through ''XTR Film Society'' a non-profit division of the company, that offers grants to filmmakers making documentaries with less commercial value. In October 2020, it was announced Tony Hsieh had invested $17.5 million dollars in the company, which would be used to finance and produce films, and offer grants to filmmakers. Documentary+, XTR's free streaming platform for nonfiction film and TV, was launched in January 2021. In April 2022, the company's first television series ''They Call Me Magic' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryn Mooser
Bryn Mooser (born September 20, 1979, in Los Angeles) is a filmmaker and entrepreneur. In 2012, Mooser co-founded RYOT, a media company specializing in documentary film, virtual/augmented reality and branded content. Over his career, he has produced more than 200 linear and immersive films garnering multiple Emmy Awards, two Oscar nominations, a Peabody and a Cannes Lion. Mooser sold RYOT to Verizon in 2016, becoming a senior vice president and helping create the roadmap for immersive and documentary films for AOL, Yahoo, and Verizon. While at Verizon, Mooser built the branded content studio for AOL/Yahoo, HuffPost and Tumblr. Mooser is known as a pioneer in non-fiction immersive storytelling and helped pioneer virtual reality news reporting with the Associated Press in 2015. He also helped bring augmented reality to ''Time'' magazine in 2018. In 2019, Mooser launched XTR, a new company focused on non-fiction film and television studio based in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a film and television series library through distribution deals as well as its own productions, known as Netflix Originals. As of September 2022, Netflix had 222 million subscribers worldwide, including 73.3 million in the United States and Canada; 73.0 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 39.6 million in Latin America and 34.8 million in the Asia-Pacific region. It is available worldwide aside from Mainland China, Syria, North Korea, and Russia. Netflix has played a prominent role in independent film distribution, and it is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Netflix can be accessed via web browsers or via application software installed on smart TVs, set-top boxes connected to televisions, tablet computers, smartph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Us Kids
''Us Kids'' is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Kim A. Snyder, following members of the March for Our Lives movement after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018. The film had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2020. It was scheduled for wider release on May 14, 2021, by Greenwich Entertainment. Synopsis The film follows the March for Our Lives movement over the course of 18 months, in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that killed 17 people and injured 17 more. X González, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, Jaclyn Corin, Bria Smith, Samantha Fuentes and Alex King appear in the film. ''Us Kids'' also captures how youth got involved with political activism, launching a global youth movement against gun violence. Release The film had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2020. The film was briefly released online for free from October 30, 2020, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gravitas Ventures
Gravitas Ventures is an independent film distribution company owned by Anthem Sports and Entertainment. The company was founded by Nolan Gallagher in Los Angeles, California in 2006 and moved its headquarters to Cleveland, Ohio in 2019, where it focuses on the distribution of Independent feature films and documentaries. History Gravitas Ventures, an independent film distributor, was founded in Los Angeles, California by Nolan Gallagher in 2006. The company releases and promotes independent feature films and documentaries, offering films to theaters and as “Video on Demand” (VOD) to screening services such as Amazon Prime, Hulu, Paramount Plus, Apple iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, Vimeo, Netflix, and Gravitas Movies The company has become one of the US's biggest providers of independent VOD. The company's films come in all forms: traditional movie theater, transactional VOD like traditional cable, telco, satellite and online platforms; subscription and ad-sponsored VOD. Gravitas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discovery+
Discovery may refer to: * Discovery (observation), observing or finding something unknown * Discovery (fiction), a character's learning something unknown * Discovery (law), a process in courts of law relating to evidence Discovery, The Discovery or Discoveries may also refer to: Film and television * ''The Discovery'' (film), a 2017 British-American romantic science fiction film * Discovery Channel, an American TV channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery * ''Discovery'' (Canadian TV series), a 1962–1963 Canadian documentary television program * ''Discovery'' (Irish TV series), an Irish documentary television programme * ''Discovery'' (UK TV programme), a British documentary television programme * ''Discovery'' (U.S. TV series), a 1962–1971 American television news program * '' Star Trek: Discovery'', an American television series ** USS ''Discovery'' (NCC-1031), a fictional space craft on ''Star Trek: Discovery'' Literature * ''The Discovery'' (Frances Sheridan pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miracle Fishing
A miracle is an event that is inexplicable by natural or scientific lawsOne dictionary define"Miracle"as: "A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency." and accordingly gets attributed to some supernatural or praeternatural cause. Various religions often attribute a phenomenon characterized as miraculous to the actions of a supernatural being, (especially) a deity, a magician, a miracle worker, a saint, or a religious leader. Informally, English-speakers often use the word ''miracle'' to characterise any beneficial event that is statistically unlikely but not contrary to the laws of nature, such as surviving a natural disaster, or simply a "wonderful" occurrence, regardless of likelihood (e.g. "the miracle of childbirth"). Some coincidences may be seen as miracles. A true miracle would, by definition, be a non-natural phenomenon, leading many writers to dismiss miracles as phy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTV Films
MTV Entertainment Studios is the film and television production arm of MTV Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Founded in 1991 as MTV Productions, it is a consolidation of the former MTV Films group established in 1996 and the MTV Production Development/MTV Studios group of 2003–2021, it has produced original television shows like ''Beavis and Butt-Head'', ''Æon Flux'', '' Jackass'', ''My Super Sweet 16'', ''Daria'', ''Celebrity Deathmatch'', ''Clone High'' and ''The Real World'' and films such as ''Election'', ''Joe's Apartment'' and ''Napoleon Dynamite''. Its films are released by fellow Paramount Global division Paramount Pictures. The MTV Films unit was once part of Paramount Players until 2020. History MTV Productions originally started in 1991, and went into expansion two years later, with Doug Herzog serving as president of the unit. Its expansion was to produce shows for theatrical release, broadcast TV and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITVS
ITVS (Independent Television Service) is a service in the United States which funds and presents documentaries on public television through distribution by PBS and American Public Television, new media projects on the Internet, and the weekly series ''Independent Lens'' on PBS. Aside from Independent Lens, ITVS funded and produced films for more than 40 television hours per year on the PBS series POV, Frontline, American Masters and American Experience. Some ITVS programs are produced along with organizations like Latino Public Broadcasting and KQED. Besides ''Independent Lens'', ITVS series include ''Indie Lens Storycast'' on YouTube and ''Women of the World'' with Women and Girls Lead Global. Prior series include ''Global Voices'' (on World) and ''FutureStates''. ITVS is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and is based in San Francisco. ITVS has funded more than 1,400 films, with an eye on diversity and underrepresented audiences and filmmakers. The organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Lens
''Independent Lens'' is a weekly television series airing on PBS featuring documentary films made by independent filmmakers. Past seasons of ''Independent Lens'' were hosted by Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Susan Sarandon, Edie Falco, Terrence Howard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, America Ferrera, Mary-Louise Parker, and Stanley Tucci, who served two stints as host from 2012-2014. The series began in 1999 and for three years aired 10 episodes each fall season. In 2002, PBS announced that in 2003 the series would relaunch with ITVS as the production company, under the leadership of Sally Jo Fifer and Lois Vossen, and would expand to 29 primetime episodes a year. The 2019-20 season is regarded as the 18th season for the series. ''Independent Lens'' has won six Primetime Emmy Awards and 20 films have won News & Documentary Emmy Awards. In 2012, " Have You Heard From Johannesburg?" won for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking; in 2007, ''A Lion in the House'' won for Exceptional Merit in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feels Good Man
''Feels Good Man'' is a 2020 American documentary film about the Internet meme Pepe the Frog. Marking the directorial debut of Arthur Jones, the film stars artist Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe. The film follows Furie as he struggles to reclaim control of Pepe from members of the alt-right who have co-opted the image for their own purposes. The film premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker. It was also nominated in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance. Plot Pepe the Frog, a character created by Matt Furie and first featured in a comic on MySpace called ''Boy's Club,'' is one of four twentysomething postcollegiate slacker friends who live together. In one installment, Pepe is caught by one of his housemates with his pants around his ankles, urinating. Asked why, he replies, "Feels good man". The image becomes a viral Internet meme and is co-opted by the alt-right. Too late, Furie attempts to take P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neon (company)
Neon (stylized in all caps) is an American independent film production and distribution company founded in 2017 by CEO Tom Quinn and Tim League, who also was the co-founder of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain. The company is best known for distributing critically acclaimed and award-winning films such as ''I, Tonya'' (2017), ''Parasite'' (2019), ''Portrait of a Lady on Fire'' (2019), '' The Worst Person in the World'' (2021), and '' Spencer'' (2021). ''Parasite'' is Neon's highest-grossing film at the worldwide box office with more than $200 million. , Tim League was no longer involved with daily operations for the company. History During the 4th Annual Zurich Summit, Tom Quinn commented on Neon's intent to release titles that appeal to audiences who "skew under 45, that have no aversion to violence, no aversion to foreign language and to non-fiction." In September 2017, the company partnered with Blumhouse Productions to manage BH Tilt. In 2019, a majority stake of Neon was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
''You Cannot Kill David Arquette'' is a 2020 American documentary film, directed by David Darg and Price James. It follows David Arquette attempting to return to wrestling after his acting career stalls. It was released on August 21, 2020, by Super LTD. Synopsis David Arquette attempts a return to wrestling, which stalled his acting career. Cast * David Arquette * Patricia Arquette * Rosanna Arquette * Richmond Arquette * Courteney Cox * Ric Flair * Mick Foley * Eric Bischoff * Peter Avalon * Diamond Dallas Page Production In December 2019, it was announced David Darg and Price James had directed a documentary film following David Arquette, over the course of two years, with Patricia Arquette, Rosanna Arquette, Richmond Arquette, Courteney Cox, and Ric Flair set to appear in the film. Release The film was scheduled to have its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 20, 2020. The festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Shortly after, Super LTD acquired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
