Freestyle Digital Media Acquires 2023 Slamdance Movie Pageant Grand Jury Prize Winner ‘Waiting For The Light To Change’

EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media, the digital movie distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, has acquired North American VOD rights to the dramatic characteristic movie Ready For The Mild To Change — the 2023 Slamdance Movie Pageant ‘Grand Jury Prize’ winner for ‘Greatest Narrative Characteristic.

Ready For The Mild To Change premiered on the Heartland Worldwide Movie Pageant in Indianapolis in October 2022, screened on the Chicago Critics Movie Pageant in Might 2023, and simply had its West Coast premiere in Los Angeles at Dances With Movies on June 28, 2023. Freestyle Digital Media is planning a fall 2023 launch date.

Ready For The Mild To Change takes place over the course of a week-long beachside getaway. Set over a number of days in and round a lake home in Michigan, the movie follows 5 twenty-somethings who collect for a small getaway within the early spring. However with little to do within the small, lakeside city, everybody finds themselves coping with the type of malaise that occurs in a single’s early-to-mid twenties: rising older, establishing a profession, discovering a objective in life, going over previous regrets, and anxious about what the long run may maintain.

Directed by feminine director Linh Tran, Ready For The Mild To Change was co-written by Lihn Tran, Jewells Santos, and Delia Van Praag. Producers are Jake Rotger, Jewells Santos, and Sam Straley. James Choi served as government producer. The movie’s forged contains Sam Straley (‘Jay’), who appeared within the Hulu sequence The Dropout and as a sequence common on The Youngsters Are Alright (ABC) and Welcome To Flatch (Fox). Actors Eric Barrientos (‘Alex’), Qun Chi (‘Lin’), Joyce Ha (‘Kim’), and Jin Park (‘Amy’) spherical out the forged.

The acquisition of Ready For The Mild To Change kicks off Freestyle Digital Media’s first-look with DePaul College’s Faculty of Cinematic Arts and its Indie Studio Initiative – which produces DePaul scholar characteristic movies. Launched in 2018 by Assistant Professor James Choi, this system helps student-directed and produced micro-feature movies by means of financing and in-kind companies. This contains steerage by means of all facets of the filmmaking course of, similar to screenwriting, directing, and modifying, with college students absolutely proudly owning the finished tasks, offering a singular alternative for the following technology of filmmakers to develop each creatively and professionally. Dedicated to range and inclusion, 49 p.c of the scholars determine as non-white, 52 p.c male, 47 p.c feminine with $2 million devoted to Faculty of Cinematic Arts scholarship and assistantships funding.

“DePaul’s Indie Studio Initiative showcases the filmmakers of tomorrow,” mentioned Invoice Vergos, Head of Digital Movie Distribution for Freestyle Digital Media. “We at Freestyle have partnered with this unique program because rising talent such as Linh Tran and her team deserve an opportunity for their hard work and creativity to be seen on as many platforms as possible.”

“Freestyle Digital Media is making significant strides to actively foster the genuine exploration of true discovery in the world of cinema by supporting the upcoming generation of filmmakers emerging out of this digital revolution,” mentioned DePaul College Assistant Professor James Choi. “We are extremely excited as we embark on this journey alongside Freestyle, beginning with the anticipated release of Waiting For The Light To Change this fall and potential collaborations on future films coming out of Indie Studio.”