EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to Don’t Fall in Love With Your self, a documentary about influential musician-artist-actor Justin Pearson.
Gravitas plans to launch the movie, directed by Jon Nix, on August 20 by way of its “hybrid distribution system,” throughout Comcast, Amazon Prime Video, Peacock, Spectrum, Apple TV, Dish, Google Play, DirecTV, and extra.
“Don’t Fall in Love With Your self tracks Pearson’s distinctive journey,” Gravitas notes, “from childhood tragedy by way of his roots within the San Diego punk scene as a key member of a number of bands and music initiatives (Swing Youngsters, The Locust, Lifeless Cross, and Retox, amongst them), as an actor reverse Asia Argento, an notorious look on The Jerry Springer Present, and affect on different artists by way of the creation and ahead-of-its-time promotion of his file label, Three One G Information – all culminating in his final rise to cult celeb standing. An in-depth take a look at an surprising and influential profession made out of blood, sweat and spit.”
Justin Pearson in ‘Don’t Fall in Love with Your self’
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In an announcement, Nix stated, “Don’t Fall in Love With Your self is a movie that I had wished to make for years. I used to be impressed by my fascination with San Diego noise music and so many tales I discovered about it saved main me to Justin Pearson. For thus many individuals, he embodies what that world was all about. This movie delves into all of it with Justin on the heart of all of it. We stay up for the movie gaining a large viewers due to Gravitas Ventures and introducing so many extra to that world, that sound, and most of all – for individuals who would possibly solely know part of his story – to Justin himself.”
Invoice Guentzler, SVP acquisitions and operations at Gravitas Ventures, negotiated the acquisition cope with Dan Rozenblum at 33 & West on behalf of the filmmaker.
Justin Pearson in ‘Don’t Fall in Love with Your self’
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“We’re thrilled to carry Don’t Fall in Love With Your self to a large viewers,” Guentzler stated. “To say this documentary rocks can be an understatement, however past that, it provides an entertaining window into the spirit and inventive thoughts of Justin Pearson that didn’t simply experience that wave of music, in some ways, he helped steer it to the heights it reached for its followers.”
The documentary, a manufacturing of TurnStyle Movies, is produced by Jamie Overstreet and govt produced by Matthew Chojnacki.
“Jon [Nix] and TurnStyle Movies have captured a lot of an absurd experience all through a subculture, which particularly hones in on my private experiences in life,” Pearson stated. “It’s flattering, jarring, and hopefully pleasant to the viewer, because it has been for me. I feel audiences that haven’t but run into what the movie encapsulates, might have their minds blown just a little bit, or at the least I hope they do. After all, people who know numerous it or are literally part of it, will benefit from the experience as nicely.”
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Gravitas Ventures, an Anthem Sports activities & Leisure Firm, is a number one all rights distributor of impartial function movies and documentaries. Gravitas “connects impartial filmmakers and producers with distribution alternatives throughout the globe,” the corporate notes. “Working with proficient administrators and producers, Gravitas Ventures has distributed 1000’s of movies into over 100 million houses in North America – over one billion houses worldwide.”
