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Factory 25 is a Brooklyn-based independent film distribution and production company, founded by Matt Grady in 2009.
History
[edit]Grady founded Factory 25 in 2009 after leaving a position as director of production at Plexifilm.[1] The name Factory 25 is from "the manufacturing home of the famous 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card".[2]
The company's first release, Frownland,[3] was the film that inspired Grady to create his own distribution company, as he believed no other company would distribute the film.[4]
As of 2010[update], Grady remained the company's sole employee.[5]
Releases
[edit]The films that Factory 25 produces and distributes are often microbudget features with nontraditional narratives. Factory 25 largely focuses on physical releases such as DVDs, Blu-Rays, VHS Tapes, CDs and Vinyl LPs. As of 2010[update], a typical production run consisted of 1,000 DVD-LP pairs (movie and soundtrack), where sale of 40% of the production run would be the break-even point.[5] The company's physical releases often include objects such as 16mm film strips, drawings and written essays.[6] Matt Grady has expressed a desire to make the company's physical releases collectible and appealing, "like a fetish item".[7] The company has worked and distributed films alongside notable distribution companies such as Oscilloscope Laboratories and streaming services such as Fandor.[8][9]
Filmography
[edit]Distributed By Factory 25:
| Title | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Hero | 1983 | Alexandre Rockwell |
| Blood Brothers | 1989 | Mike Diana |
| Baked Baby Jesus | 1990 | Mike Diana |
| In the Soup[10] | 1992 | Alexandre Rockwell |
| Dutch Harbor - Where the Sea Breaks Its Back | 1998 | Braden King and Laura Moya |
| Funny Ha Ha | 2002 | Andrew Bujalski |
| High School Record | 2005 | Ben Wolfinsohn |
| We Go Way Back | 2006 | Lynn Shelton |
| You Weren't There | 2007 | Joe Losurdo and Christina Tillman |
| Frownland[11][12] | 2007 | Ronald Bronstein |
| Altamont Now | 2008 | Joshua von Brown |
| Make-out With Violence | 2008 | The Deagol Brothers |
| Until the Light Takes Us | 2008 | Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell |
| You Wont Miss Me | 2009 | Ry Russo-Young |
| Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo | 2009 | Jessica Oreck |
| Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same | 2009 | Jody Lee Lipes |
| Impolex | 2009 | Alex Ross Perry |
| Wah Do Dem | 2009 | Sam Fleischner and Ben Chace |
| Rio Breaks | 2009 | Justin Mitchell |
| Damon and Naomi: 1001 Nights | 2009 | Cedrick Eymenier |
| All the Way from Michigan Not Mars | 2009 | Matt Boyd |
| Gabi on the Roof in July | 2010 | Lawrence Michael Levine |
| Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then | 2010 | Brent Green |
| Shit Year | 2010 | Cam Archer |
| Two Gates of Sleep | 2010 | Alistair Banks Griffith |
| Vacation! | 2010 | Zach Clark |
| N.Y. Export: Op. Jazz | 2010 | Jody Lee Lipes and Henry Joost |
| Convento | 2010 | Jarred Alterman |
| I am Secretly an Important Man | 2010 | Peter Sillen |
| The Oregonian | 2011 | Calvin Lee Reeder |
| The Zone | 2011 | Joe Swanberg |
| The Color Wheel[12] | 2011 | Alex Ross Perry |
| The Family Jams | 2011 | Kevin Barker |
| A Rubberband is an Unlikely Instrument | 2011 | Matt Boyd |
| The Other Side of Sleep | 2011 | Rebecca Daly |
| Kids of Today | 2011 | Jerome de Missolz |
| Green[13] | 2011 | Sophia Takal |
| Buttons | 2011 | The Safdie Brothers |
| Art History | 2011 | Joe Swanberg |
| Silver Bullets | 2011 | Joe Swanberg |
| New Jerusalem | 2011 | Rick Alverson |
| Fake It So Real | 2011 | Robert Greene |
| Jobriath A.D. | 2012 | Kieran Turner |
| Kid-Thing | 2012 | David Zellner |
| Bad Fever | 2012 | Dustin Guy Defa |
| Better Than Something: Jay Reatard | 2012 | Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz |
| Sun Don't Shine[14] | 2012 | Amy Seimetz |
| Pavilion[9] | 2012 | Tim Sutton |
| Nancy, Please | 2012 | Andrew Semans |
| Marvin, Seth and Stanley | 2012 | Stephen Gurewitz |
| Richard's Wedding | 2012 | Onur Tukel |
| Exit Elena | 2012 | Nathan Silver |
| Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film | 2012 | Hanly Banks |
| Ape | 2012 | Joel Potrykus |
| Francine[15] | 2012 | Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky |
| First Winter | 2012 | Benjamin Dickinson |
| All the Light in the Sky | 2012 | Joe Swanberg |
| The Sheik and I | 2012 | Caveh Zahedi |
| White Reindeer | 2013 | Zach Clark |
| The Voice of the Voiceless | 2013 | Maximón Monihan |
| Boneshaker[16] | 2013 | Frances Bodomo |
| Privacy Setting | 2013 | Joe Swanberg |
| Soft in the Head | 2013 | Nathan Silver |
| Hellaware | 2013 | Michael M. Bilandic |
| Bluebird[17] | 2013 | Lance Edmands |
| Little Feet[16] | 2013 | Alexandre Rockwell |
| See You Next Tuesday | 2013 | Drew Tobia |
| Go Down Death[18] | 2013 | Aaron Schimberg |
| Brothers Hypnotic | 2013 | Reuben Atlas |
| Buzzard | 2014 | Joel Potrykus |
| Young Bodies Heal Quickly | 2014 | Andrew T. Betzer |
| Christmas, Again | 2014 | Charles Poekel |
| Down in Shadowland | 2014 | Tom DiCillo |
| Sex and Broadcasting: A Film About WFMU | 2014 | Tim K. Smith |
| Diamond Tongues[19] | 2015 | Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson |
| Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)[20] | 2015 | Juan Daniel F. Molero |
| Stinking Heaven[19] | 2015 | Nathan Silver |
| Almost There[21] | 2015 | Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden |
| Uncle Kent 2[19] | 2015 | Todd Rohall |
| Dwarves Kingdom | 2015 | Matthew Salton |
| Bloomin Mud Shuffle | 2015 | Frank V. Ross |
| Come Down Molly | 2015 | Gregory Kohn |
| Abby Singer/Songwriter | 2015 | Onur Tukel |
| Ma | 2015 | Celia Rowlson-Hall |
| Homemakers | 2015 | Colin Healey |
| The Lost Arcade | 2015 | A.D. Calvo |
| The Missing Girl | 2015 | Kurt Vincent |
| Little Sister | 2016 | Zach Clark |
| The Arbalest | 2016 | Adam Pinney |
| All This Panic | 2016 | Jenny Gage |
| Icaros: A Vision | 2016 | Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi |
| No Light and No Land Anywhere | 2016 | Amber Sealey |
| For the Plasma | 2016 | Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzan |
| Werewolf | 2016 | Ashley McKenzie |
| California Dreams | 2017 | Mike Ott |
| Sylvio | 2017 | Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley |
| Assholes | 2017 | Peter Vack |
| The Show About the Show | 2017 | Caveh Zahedi |
| Sundowners | 2017 | Pavan Moondi |
| Tormenting the Hen | 2017 | Theodore Collatos |
| The Misogynists | 2017 | Onur Tukel |
| The Great Pretender | 2018 | Nathan Silver |
| The Unicorn | 2018 | Timothy Geraghty & Isabelle Dupuis |
| Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story | 2019 | Steve Sullivan |
| Jobe'z World | 2019 | Michael M. Bilandic |
| Two Plains & a Fancy | 2019 | Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn |
| August at Akiko's | 2019 | Christopher Makoto Yogi |
| Ham on Rye[22] | 2019 | Tyler Taormina |
| Empty Metal | 2019 | Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer |
| Tito | 2019 | Grace Glowicki |
| Other Music | 2019 | Rob Hatch-Miller & Puloma Basu |
| Frances Ferguson | 2019 | Bob Byington |
| Queen of Lapa | 2019 | Theodore Collatos & Carolina Monnerat |
| Amateur on Plastic | 2020 | Mark Robinson |
| Inspector Ike | 2020 | Graham Mason |
| Superior | 2021 | Erin Vassilopoulos |
| Honky Kong | 2021 | Stephen Gurewitz |
| Topology of Sirens | 2021 | Jonathan Davies |
| Out of Time: The Material Issue Story | 2021 | Balin Schneider |
| Actual People | 2021 | Kit Zauhar |
| You Mean Everything to Me | 2021 | Bryan Wizemann |
| Happer's Comet | 2022 | Tyler Taormina |
| Queens of the Qing Dynasty | 2022 | Ashley McKenzie |
| Warm Blood | 2022 | Rick Charnoski |
| Quantum Cowboys | 2022 | Geoff Marslett |
| Way Out Ahead of Us | 2022 | Rob Rice |
| The Reverend | 2022 | Nick Canfield |
| We Were Famous, You Don't Remember: The Embarrassment | 2022 | Daniel Fetherston & Danny Szlauderbach |
| Residency | 2023 | Winnie Cheung |
| Hummingbirds | 2023 | Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía "Beba" Contreras |
| This Closeness | 2023 | Kit Zauhar |
| Louder Than You Think | 2023 | Jed I. Rosenberg |
| An Evening Song (for Three Voices) | 2023 | Graham Swon |
| Family Portrait | 2023 | Lucy Kerr |
| Crass: The Sound of Free Speech (The Story of Reality Asylum) | 2023 | Brandon Spivey |
| Sam's World | 2024 | Lily Lady |
| A Man Imagined | 2024 | Melanie Shatzky & Brian M. Cassidy |
| The Heirloom | 2024 | Ben Petrie |
| Vulcanizadora | 2024 | Joel Potrykus |
| No Sleep Till | 2024 | Alexandra Simpson |
| Or Something | 2024 | Jeffrey Scotti Schroeder |
| Lump | 2024 | Alexandre Rockwell |
| Softshell | 2024 | Jinho Myung |
| City Wide Fever | 2025 | Josh Heaps |
| The Hedonist | 2025 | Nick Funess |
| The Gits - 20th Anniversary Edition | 2025 | Kerri O'Kane |
| Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted | 2025 | Isaac Gale & Ryan Olson |
| Micro Budget | 2025 | Morgan Evans |
Produced By Factory 25:
| Title | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Summer of Blood | 2014 | Onur Tukel |
| Applesauce | 2015 | Onur Tukel |
| Abby Singer/Songwriter | 2015 | Onur Tukel |
| Cooklyn | 2016 | Bryan Wizemann |
| Tormenting the Hen | 2017 | Theodore Collatos |
| The Great Pretender | 2018 | Nathan Silver |
| Queen of Lapa | 2019 | Theodore Collatos |
| You Mean Everything to Me | 2020 | Bryan Wizemann |
| Inspector Ike | 2020 | Graham Mason |
| All The Old Bells | 2020 | Brent Green |
| Vulcanizadora | 2024 | Joel Potrykus |
Music Releases
[edit]| Album | Year | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| Music from Frownland | 2008 | Paul Grimstad |
| Damon and Naomi: 1001 Nights | 2001-2009 | Naomi Yang |
| You Weren't There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-1984 | 2009 | Various Artists |
| All the Way from Michigan Not Mars | 2009 | Rosie Thomas, Sufjan Stephens, and Denison Witmer |
| Make-Out With Violence Soundtrack | 2009 | The Non-Commissioned Officers |
| You Wont Miss Me | 2009 | Stylofone |
| Torben | 2010 | Brock Enright & Kirsten Deirup |
| Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same | 2010 | Jody Lee Lipes |
| Exclamation Point | 2010 | DA! |
| Sub-Urban Insult Rock for the Anti-Lectual | 2010 | Tutu & the Pirates |
| I Am Secretly an Important Man | 2011 | Jessie Bernstein |
| The Oregonian Soundtrack | 2011 | Calvin Lee Reeder |
| Found Stock: Better Than Something: Jay Reatard | 2012 | Jay Reatard |
| Pavilion Original Soundtrack | 2012 | Sam Prekop |
| Brothers Hypnotic | 2013 | Hypnotic Brass Ensemble |
| Unreleased Music from "POPSTAR," Jobriath's Lost Musical | 2013 | Jobriath |
| Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film | 2014 | Bill Callahan |
| I'll Cut Yo Dick Off | 2014 | The Young Torture Killers |
| Heaven Knows What: Original Music From the Film | 2015 | Ariel Pink and Blood Orange |
| Tour of WFMU | 2016 | Dave Hill & Scott Williams |
| August at Akiko's | 2019 | Alex Zhang Hungtai |
| Other Music | 2021 | Various Artists |
| Blammo!! Wams & Bams Mysteroid | 2023 | Grymstyd (aka: Paul Grimstad) |
Accolades
[edit]Factory 25 was named "Best Distributor" by The L Magazine in their "Best of Brooklyn 2013: Film" article.[23]
References
[edit]- ^ "Factory Boy: Matt Grady Talks Distribution". December 22, 2010.
- ^ Hillis, Aaron (2 July 2013). "Factory 25: Turning art films into art objects". MovieMaker. Playa Vista, California. Retrieved 29 Dec 2019.
- ^ Renninger, Bryce J. (June 26, 2009). "New Distrib Factory 25 Melds Music and Film in Brooklyn".
- ^ "MovieMaker Magazine: The Art and Craft of Making Movies".
- ^ a b Ryzik, Melena (20 August 2019). "D.I.Y. Music Labels Embrace D.I.Y. Film". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 Dec 2019.
- ^ Dollar, Steve (December 22, 2010). "The Art Is in the Packaging". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Ryzik, Melena (August 20, 2010). "Jagjaguwar, Factory 25 and Indie Film". The New York Times.
- ^ "Fandor Partners With Cinedigm, Factory 25 and Oscilloscope Laboratories". www.prnewswire.com.
- ^ a b Sridhar, Srimathi (June 26, 2012). "Factory 25 Acquires 'Pavilion' for Worldwide Distribution; Exclusive Digital Distribution with Oscilloscope Labs". IndieWire. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 30 Dec 2019.
- ^ "Alexandre Rockwell on Restoring and Preserving the Unique Black and White of In the Soup". Filmmaker (Interview). Filmmaker Magazine. 1 August 2017. Retrieved 29 Dec 2019.
- ^ Brody, Richard (October 6, 2009). "Frownland". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 30 Dec 2019.
- ^ a b Cronk, Jordan (11 April 2016). "Knoxville's Big Ears Festival, the Avant-Garde SXSW, Adds a Film Program". Brooklyn. Brooklyn Magazine. Retrieved 30 Dec 2019.
- ^ Macaulay, Scott (9 August 2012). "FACTORY 25 ACQUIRES SOPHIA TAKAL'S "GREEN" FOR WORLD DISTRIBUTION".
- ^ Brody, Richard (January 17, 2013). "The State of the "Art Film"". The New Yorker. Retrieved 29 Dec 2019 – via Condé Nast.
- ^ Cox, Gordon (September 10, 2012). "Factory 25 takes 'Francine'".
- ^ a b Salovaara, Sarah (18 November 2014). "Factory 25 Acquires Little Feet and Boneshaker".
- ^ McNary, Dave (December 2, 2014). "John Slattery's 'Bluebird' Bought for U.S. by Factory 25".
- ^ Salovaara, Sarah (27 February 2014). "Go Down Death Acquired by Factory 25".
- ^ a b c Choi, Sarah (25 June 2015). "Fandor and Factory 25 Jointly Acquire 7 Feature Films". IndieWire. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 30 Dec 2019.
- ^ "Peru Oscar Entry 'Videofilia' Ports To Factory 25; 'The War Show' Acquired By Bond/360 – Film Briefs". www.yahoo.com.
- ^ Page, Aubrey (November 12, 2015). "Factory 25 Acquires Outsider Art Documentary 'Almost There'". IndieWire. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 30 Dec 2019.
- ^ Kay, Jeremy. "Locarno Film Festival selection 'Ham On Rye' lands at Factory 25 (exclusive)". Screen.
- ^ "Best of Brooklyn 2013: Film". The L Magazine. July 31, 2013. Retrieved 29 Dec 2019.
Further reading
[edit]- Founder Grady appears on this list: Staff (11 March 2014). "The 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture". Brooklyn. Brooklyn Magazine. Retrieved 30 Dec 2019.
- Founder Grady presenting at SXSW 2016: "Mentors - Distribution: Matt Grady (Factory 25)". SXSW Schedule (Announcement of presentation schedule). SXSW LLC. 2016. Retrieved 30 Dec 2019.
Interviews
[edit]- Grady, Matt (22 December 2010). "Factory Boy: Matt Grady Talks Distribution". Interview Magazine (Interview). Interviewed by Durga Chew-Bose. Retrieved 30 Dec 2019.
- Grady, Matt (2018). "Matt Grady". Filmatique (Interview). Interviewed by Ursula Grisham. Retrieved 30 Dec 2019.
External links
[edit]- Factory 25 Website FACTORY 25 - Home