Exclusive: Film-focused tech firm Gathr is rolling out a pay-it-forward distribution model with what the company says is greater transparency than schemes like the one used by Angel Studios on 2023 blockbuster Sound of Freedom.
A handful of films are set to deploy the model in the coming months: Brown, directed by Raj Amit Kumar; Christspiracy (Kip Andersen and Kameron Waters); The Sixth (Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine); and Call Me Dancer (Leslie Shampaine). Gathr will host a workshop to walk filmmakers through the new offering at the DC/Dox festival in Washington, D.C., which opens tonight.
Founded in 2011, Gathr is known for its event management platform, which integrates filmmakers, talent, audiences and venues and integrating ticketing, merchandising and other revenue lines. The company’s signature project was Girl Rising, which took in $1.85 million at the box office in 2013, the fourth-best tally of any documentary feature that year. The...
A handful of films are set to deploy the model in the coming months: Brown, directed by Raj Amit Kumar; Christspiracy (Kip Andersen and Kameron Waters); The Sixth (Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine); and Call Me Dancer (Leslie Shampaine). Gathr will host a workshop to walk filmmakers through the new offering at the DC/Dox festival in Washington, D.C., which opens tonight.
Founded in 2011, Gathr is known for its event management platform, which integrates filmmakers, talent, audiences and venues and integrating ticketing, merchandising and other revenue lines. The company’s signature project was Girl Rising, which took in $1.85 million at the box office in 2013, the fourth-best tally of any documentary feature that year. The...
- 6/13/2024
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
“Christspiracy: The Spirituality Secret,” the follow-up to “Seaspiracy,” “Cowspiracy” and “What the Health,” will open in theaters in the U.S. for two nights of special screenings that will take place on March 20 and 24. The film will also hit theaters in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria and Switzerland on March 20, where it will be distributed by Trafalgar Releasing.
“’Christspiracy,’ the latest documentary from Kip Andersen and Kameron Waters, takes us on a philosophical journey to find out the truth in relation to Jesus and the animals,” Joaquin Phoenix, the Oscar-winning who has worked with Andersen and Waters in the past, said in a statement about “Christpiracy.” “The film explores the answer from many of the world’s religions and exposes unforgiving truths about animal cruelty in the name of religion.”
To make the investigative documentary, Andersen and Waters went around the world to explore the historical connection between religions and animals,...
“’Christspiracy,’ the latest documentary from Kip Andersen and Kameron Waters, takes us on a philosophical journey to find out the truth in relation to Jesus and the animals,” Joaquin Phoenix, the Oscar-winning who has worked with Andersen and Waters in the past, said in a statement about “Christpiracy.” “The film explores the answer from many of the world’s religions and exposes unforgiving truths about animal cruelty in the name of religion.”
To make the investigative documentary, Andersen and Waters went around the world to explore the historical connection between religions and animals,...
- 2/13/2024
- by Caroline Brew
- Variety Film + TV
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