Topic Lands SVOD Rights To ‘Lynch: A History,’ Doc On NFL star Marshawn Lynch’s Doc
The film made its world premiere at the 2019 Seattle International Film Festival. It was also an official selection of the 2019 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, where it was awarded a Special Jury Mention for Creative Use of Archival Footage, and also named by Sight & Sound as one of the five best films at the festival. The film also won an End of Cinema Award for Best Nonfiction Film of the Year. In the New Yorker, Hua Hsu wrote, “Lynch feels like the culmination of Shields’s career. The film’s relentless rhythm overwhelms and overpowers you. Random acts of terror, across time and space, reveal themselves as a pattern. It’s a gradient of American carnage.”
Lynch: A History is produced, written, and directed by David Shields, the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season (which loosely inspired the film), Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention, and Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (which LitHub recently named one of the 100 most important books of the last decade).
The film is executive produced by Danny Glover (Sorry to Bother You, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Lethal Weapon). John W. Comerford (Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense) is consulting producer. World sales and theatrical distribution by Cargo Film and Releasing. A Smokie Films production.
Topic’s VP of Acquisitions Jennifer Liang negotiated the deal with David Piperni, President of Cargo Film & Releasing.