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 via 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 via his roots within the San Diego punk scene as a key member of a number of bands and music tasks (Swing Children, The Locust, Useless Cross, and Retox, amongst them), as an actor reverse Asia Argento, an notorious look on The Jerry Springer Present, and influence on different artists via the creation and ahead-of-its-time promotion of his document label, Three One G Information – all culminating in his final rise to cult superstar standing. An in-depth have 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 a press release, Nix mentioned, “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 stored main me to Justin Pearson. For therefore 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 sit 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 may 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 convey Don’t Fall in Love With Your self to a large viewers,” Guentzler mentioned. “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 trip 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 trip all through a subculture, which particularly hones in on my private experiences in life,” Pearson mentioned. “It’s flattering, jarring, and hopefully satisfying to the viewer, because it has been for me. I believe audiences that haven’t but run into what the movie encapsulates, could have their minds blown a bit of bit, or not less than I hope they do. In fact, people who know a number of it or are literally part of it, will benefit from the trip as properly.”
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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 gifted administrators and producers, Gravitas Ventures has distributed hundreds of movies into over 100 million properties in North America – over one billion properties worldwide.”
