Good Deed Entertainment (commonly referred to as GDE) is an

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based independent studio dedicated to producing, financing and distributing quality entertainment for film, television, the World Wide Web and tomorrow’s anticipated platforms. Through its genre division, Cranked Up Films, GDE develops, produces, and distributes high concept horror, grounded sci-fi and speculative fiction. The company is perhaps best known for releasing the Academy Award-nominated animated feature ''

Loving Vincent ''Loving Vincent'' ( pl, Twój Vincent) is a 2017 experimental adult animated biographical drama film about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, and, in particular, about the circumstances of his death. It is the first fully painted animat ...

'', telling the story of painter

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in his signature style. Good Deed Entertainment has also recently released such titles as ''

Karmalink ''Karmalink'' is a 2021 science fiction film directed and co-written by Jake Wachtel in his feature film directorial debut. An international co-production of Cambodia and the United States, it is the first Cambodian-produced science fiction film ...

'', ''

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...

'' and ''

Some Freaks ''Some Freaks'' is a 2016 American film written and directed by Ian MacAllister-McDonald and starring Thomas Mann, Marin Ireland, and Lily Mae Harrington. A romantic drama, it follows the romance between Matt, a one-eyed high school teenager fa ...

'', along with the Independent Spirit Award-nominated ''

To Dust ''To Dust'' is a 2018 American comedy-drama film directed by Shawn Snyder and starring Géza Röhrig and Matthew Broderick, Leo Heller and Sammy Voit. It was produced by Emily Mortimer, Alessandro Nivola and Ron Perlman. The film premiered at the ...

'' and the Annie Award-nominated ''Charlotte''.

History

The company moved from its original home in

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in 2019 to Ashland, Ohio which is also the hometown of the company's founder, Scott Donley.

Filmography

Cranked Up Films

Cranked Up is a genre subdivision of GDE that focuses on developing, producing, acquiring and distributing

high-concept High concept is a type of artistic work that can be easily pitched with a succinctly stated premise. It can be contrasted with ''low concept'', which is more concerned with character development and other subtleties that are not as easily summa ...

horror Horror may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Genres *Horror fiction, a genre of fiction ** Japanese horror, Japanese horror fiction **Korean horror, Korean horror fiction * Horror film, a film genre *Horror comics, comic books focusing o ...

, thrillers, grounded sci-fi, and

speculative fiction Speculative fiction is a term that has been used with a variety of (sometimes contradictory) meanings. The broadest interpretation is as a category of fiction encompassing genres with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, na ...

. Along with GDE, the company headquarters moved to Ashland, OH to bring

film production Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, casti ...

to Ohio while being conveniently nestled between

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and

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References

{{reflist Companies based in Ohio Film distributors of the United States