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Press Release: Controversial American Circumcision Documentary To Be Released

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CONTROVERSIAL DOC ‘AMERICAN CIRCUMCISION’  LANDS AUGUST 31st RELEASE DATE

Gravitas Ventures to release award winning film directed by Brendon Marotta

Los Angeles, CA (August 28, 2018) – Gravitas Ventures, Red Arrow Studios company has acquired all North American rights to the new controversial documentary AMERICAN CIRCUMCISION. Directed by Brendon Marotta, the film explores the modern circumcision debate and features interviews with experts on both sides of the argument – including members of the American Academy of Pediatrics and leaders of the growing movement against circumcision. AMERICAN CIRCUMCISION will be released on all digital platforms on August 31st.

The film has been honored with multiple festival awards, including Best Documentary Feature Film at the Lone Star Film Festival in Fort Worth, and Silvery Jury Prize at the Seattle Social Justice Film Festival.

American Circumcision explores both sides of the circumcision debate, including the growing Intactivist movement (intact + activist), which believes all human beings have a right to keep the body they were born with intact. Circumcision is the most common surgery in America, yet America is the only industrialized country in the world to routinely practice non-religious infant circumcision. Why does America continue to cut the genitals of its newborn baby males when the rest of the world does not? This is the first documentary of its scale to comprehensively explore this cutting edge issue, which involves sex, politics, and religion, all in the most personal way possible.

AMERICAN CIRCUMCISION will also be released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 28th.

View the film’s full press-kit here.

For more on the film, visit https://circumcisionmovie.com/ and follow the film @circmovie on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Official hashtag: #circmovie

About Gravitas Ventures

Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, is a leading all rights distributor of independent feature films and documentaries. Founded in 2006, Gravitas connects independent filmmakers and producers with distribution opportunities across the globe. Working with talented directors and producers, Gravitas Ventures has distributed thousands of films into over a hundred million homes in North America – over one billion homes worldwide. Recent releases include Score: A Film Music Documentary; California Typewriter; Legion of Brothers; Katie Holmes’ feature directorial debut; All We Had, Colin Hanks’ All Things Must Pass; Being Evel from Academy Award winning director Daniel Junge and producer Johnny Knoxville; and For The Love of Spock from Director Adam Nimoy.

For more information, please visit gravitasventures.com, and follow @GravitasVOD on Twitter and @gravitasventures on Instagram.

About Red Arrow Studios

Red Arrow Studios is one of the world’s leading creators and distributors of entertainment content. Red Arrow Studios is comprised of 20 production companies in seven territories, including 10 companies based in the United States; world-leading multi-platform digital network Studio71, based in six countries; and global film and TV distributors Red Arrow Studios International and Gravitas Ventures.

The group’s significant output includes scripted, non-scripted and formatted content and IP, from TV and film to short-form and branded content, made for an array of global networks and platforms.

Red Arrow Studios is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, one of Europe’s leading media groups. For more information, please visit: www.redarrow.tv

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Full List Of Places Our Film American Circumcision Will Be Available

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On August 31, 2018 our film American Circumcision will be available on:

iTunes – Amazon – GooglePlay – YouTube – Vudu – Vimeo – Microsoft – Barnes & Noble – Target – Comcast – Spectrum – DirectTV – Dish Network – Verizon FIOS – Frontier – SuddenLink – Media com -Wow – EastlinkTV – Shaw – Telus – Bakers & Taylor – Alliance Entertainment – Midwest Tape

All crowdfunding rewards will ship on the same date, August 31, 2018.

If you are curious about Netflix, read this.

And yes – you can already pre-order on iTunes, Barnes & Noble, and Target.

If you want to see a free preview clip, subscribe here.

Our Two Most Common Questions Answered (Netflix & Release)

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We’ve answered these in previous updates, but people keep asking, so here they are…

Q: When does the film release?

A: August 31, 2018

(Massive bonus features arrive 2 months later, October 31.)

Every update has said this, as has all our social media.

Crowdfunding rewards go out on the same date, August 31, 2018.

Originally it was July, but our distributor wanted an extra month to negotiate with platforms like Netflix. We decided a potential Netflix deal was worth more to our audience than one month wait and gave them the go ahead.

Which brings us to our second question…

Q: Will the film be on Netflix?

A: We won’t know until 3-6 months after the August 31 release.

As we said in a blog post here, we are releasing on paid platforms – like iTunes and Amazon – and then going to streaming TV platforms – like Netflix – several months later.

Netflix pays once, and then gives you no data on how well you do on the platform, whereas iTunes and Amazon pay every time you sell a copy and give data on how many copies you sell. Most distributors go to those platforms first, and then places like Netflix several months later.

Don’t ask about Netflix – our distributor is on it, and we won’t have anything to announce for several months. If you want to see or share the film, get it on iTunes or another platform August 31.

If you see someone asking one of these questions, please link them this post!

If you want to help make our release a success, the best thing you can do is:

  • Tell friends about our film
  • Share our film on social media
  • Tell people you follow about our film (blogs, podcasts, etc.)

The more publicity we get now, the better our chances of future platforms. Let’s make this release a success. We can’t wait to share the film with you!

The Netflix Question

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For those who’ve asked, we will be on iTunes, Amazon, and other VOD platforms for several months before going to potential TV streaming platforms – like Netflix.
 
Part of the reason our distributor wanted to move the release date from July to August was to allow more time to negotiate with those platforms.
 
We won’t have anything to announce on Netflix till months after the film is out on iTunes and Amazon on August 31, 2018 – so get it there first. iTunes pre-order: 
 
If you want to help, please share our film with friends, family, and people with an audience – podcasts, blogs, and other places that might share it. The more people that know, the better.
 
Thank you!

New Trailer for American Circumcision

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Shock Ya news shares a new trailer from American Circumcision.

Patients rightfully expect to obtain the best medical care from one of the world’s leading industrial nations. But when the country’s most common surgery alters the human body as soon as a baby is born, the physical and emotional benefits of the procedure are called into question. The highly debated inquiry into whether the routine practice of whether non-religious infant circumcision should be legally allowed to continue is presented in the new documentary, ‘American Circumcision.’

In honor of the film’s upcoming release on VOD, Shockya is exclusively premiering its trailer. The video is helping promote the movie’s digital distribution on August 31 by Gravitas Ventures.

The documentary, which was written, directed and produced by Brendon Marotta, is premiering on VOD after it debuted in select theaters nationwide on March 30. (Read Harvey Karten’s theatrical review of the film on Shockya here.) There will also be special pre-screenings of ‘American Circumcision,’ which can be found on the screenings page of the film’s official website.

Read more: http://www.shockya.com/news/2018/06/27/american-circumcision-exclusive-trailer-premiere/

You can now pre-order American Circumcision on iTunes here: