Factory 25 is a Brooklyn-based independent film distribution and production company, founded by Matt Grady in 2009.
Grady founded Factory 25 in 2009 after leaving a position as director of production at Plexifilm.[1] The name Factory 25 is from "the manufacturing home of the famous 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card".[2]
The company's first release, Frownland,[3] was the film that inspired Grady to create his own distribution company, as he believed no other company would distribute the film.[4]
, Grady remained the company's sole employee.[5]
The films that Factory 25 produces and distributes are often microbudget features with nontraditional narratives. Factory 25 largely focuses on physical releases such as DVDs, Blu-Rays, VHS Tapes, CDs and Vinyl LPs., a typical production run consisted of 1,000 DVD-LP pairs (movie and soundtrack), where sale of 40% of the production run would be the break-even point. The company's physical releases often include objects such as 16mm film strips, drawings and written essays.[6] Matt Grady has expressed a desire to make the company's physical releases collectible and appealing, "like a fetish item".[7] The company has worked and distributed films alongside notable distribution companies such as Oscilloscope Laboratories and streaming services such as Fandor.[8] [9]
Distributed By Factory 25:
| Title | Year | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hero | 1983 | Alexandre Rockwell | |
| In the Soup[10] | 1992 | Alexandre Rockwell | |
| Dutch Harbor - Where the Sea Breaks Its Back | 1998 | Braden King and Laura Moya | |
| Funny Ha Ha | 2002 | Andrew Bujalski | |
| High School Record | 2005 | Ben Wolfinsohn | |
| We Go Way Back | 2006 | Lynn Shelton | |
| You Weren't There | 2007 | Joe Losurdo and Christina Tillman | |
| Frownland[11] [12] | 2007 | Ronald Bronstein | |
| Altamont Now | 2008 | Joshua von Brown | |
| Make-out With Violence | 2008 | The Deagol Brothers | |
| Until the Light Takes Us | 2008 | Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell | |
| You Wont Miss Me | 2009 | Ry Russo-Young | |
| Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo | 2009 | Jessica Oreck | |
| Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same | 2009 | Jody Lee Lipes | |
| Impolex | 2009 | Alex Ross Perry | |
| Wah Do Dem | 2009 | Sam Fleischner and Ben Chace | |
| Rio Breaks | 2009 | Justin Mitchell | |
| Damon and Naomi: 1001 Nights | 2009 | Cedrick Eymenier | |
| All the Way from Michigan Not Mars | 2009 | Matt Boyd | |
| Gabi on the Roof in July | 2010 | Lawrence Michael Levine | |
| Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then | 2010 | Brent Green | |
| Shit Year | 2010 | Cam Archer | |
| Two Gates of Sleep | 2010 | Alistair Banks Griffith | |
| Vacation! | 2010 | Zach Clark | |
| 2010 | Jody Lee Lipes and Henry Joost | ||
| Convento | 2010 | Jarred Alterman | |
| I am Secretly an Important Man | 2010 | Peter Sillen | |
| The Oregonian | 2011 | Calvin Lee Reeder | |
| The Zone | 2011 | Joe Swanberg | |
| The Color Wheel | 2011 | Alex Ross Perry | |
| The Family Jams | 2011 | Kevin Barker | |
| A Rubberband is an Unlikely Instrument | 2011 | Matt Boyd | |
| The Other Side of Sleep | 2011 | Rebecca Daly | |
| Kids of Today | 2011 | Jerome de Missolz | |
| Green[13] | 2011 | Sophia Takal | |
| Buttons | 2011 | The Safdie Brothers | |
| Art History | 2011 | Joe Swanberg | |
| Silver Bullets | 2011 | Joe Swanberg | |
| New Jerusalem | 2011 | Rick Alverson | |
| Fake It So Real | 2011 | Robert Greene | |
| Jobriath A.D. | 2012 | Kieran Turner | |
| Kid-Thing | 2012 | David Zellner | |
| Bad Fever | 2012 | Dustin Guy Defa | |
| Better Than Something: Jay Reatard | 2012 | Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz | |
| Sun Don't Shine[14] | 2012 | Amy Seimetz | |
| Pavilion | 2012 | Tim Sutton | |
| Nancy, Please | 2012 | Andrew Semans | |
| Marvin, Seth and Stanley | 2012 | Stephen Gurewitz | |
| Richard's Wedding | 2012 | Onur Tukel | |
| Exit Elena | 2012 | Nathan Silver | |
| Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film | 2012 | Hanly Banks | |
| Ape | 2012 | Joel Potrykus | |
| Francine[15] | 2012 | Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky | |
| First Winter | 2012 | Benjamin Dickinson | |
| All the Light in the Sky | 2012 | Joe Swanberg | |
| The Sheik and I | 2012 | Caveh Zahedi | |
| The Voice of the Voiceless | 2013 | Maximón Monihan | |
| Boneshaker[16] | 2013 | Frances Bodomo | |
| Privacy Setting | 2013 | Joe Swanberg | |
| Hellaware | 2013 | Michael M. Bilandic | |
| Bluebird[17] | 2013 | Lance Edmands | |
| Little Feet | 2013 | Alexandre Rockwell | |
| See You Next Tuesday | 2013 | Drew Tobia | |
| Go Down Death[18] | 2013 | Aaron Schimberg | |
| Brothers Hypnotic | 2013 | Reuben Atlas | |
| Young Bodies Heal Quickly | 2014 | Andrew T. Betzer | |
| Christmas, Again | 2014 | Charles Poekel | |
| Down in Shadowland | 2014 | Tom DiCillo | |
| Sex and Broadcasting: A Film About WFMU | 2014 | Tim K. Smith | |
| Diamond Tongues[19] | 2015 | Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson | |
| Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)[20] | 2015 | Juan Daniel F. Molero | |
| Stinking Heaven | 2015 | Nathan Silver | |
| Almost There[21] | 2015 | Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden | |
| Uncle Kent 2 | 2015 | Todd Rohall | |
| Bloomin Mud Shuffle | 2015 | Frank V. Ross | |
| Come Down Molly | 2015 | Gregory Kohn | |
| Ma | 2015 | Celia Rowlson-Hall | |
| Homemakers | 2015 | Colin Healey | |
| The Arbalest | 2016 | Adam Pinney | |
| All This Panic | 2016 | Jenny Gage | |
| Icaros: A Vision | 2016 | Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi | |
| No Light and No Land Anywhere | 2016 | Amber Sealey | |
| For the Plasma | 2016 | Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzan | |
| Werewolf | 2016 | Ashley McKenzie | |
| Sylvio | 2017 | Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley | |
| Assholes | 2017 | Peter Vack | |
| The Show About the Show | 2017 | Caveh Zahedi | |
| Sundowners | 2017 | Pavan Moondi | |
| Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story | 2019 | Steve Sullivan | |
| Jobe'z World | 2019 | Michael M. Bilandic | |
| Two Plains & a Fancy | 2019 | Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn | |
| August at Akiko's | 2019 | Christopher Makoto Yogi | |
| Ham on Rye[22] | 2019 | Tyler Taormina | |
| Empty Metal | 2019 | Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer | |
| Out of Time: The Material Issue Story | 2021 | Balin Schneider | |
| Actual People | 2021 | Kit Zauhar | |
| The Reverend | 2021 | Nick Canfield |
Produced By Factory 25:
| Title | Year | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Onur Tukel | ||
| 2015 | Onur Tukel | ||
| 2015 | Onur Tukel | ||
| Cooklyn | 2016 | Bryan Wizemann | |
| Tormenting the Hen | 2017 | Theodore Collatos | |
| 2018 | Nathan Silver | ||
| Queen of Lapa | 2019 | Theodore Collatos | |
| You Mean Everything to Me | 2020 | Bryan Wizemann | |
| Inspector Ike | 2020 | Graham Mason | |
| All The Old Bells | 2020 | Brent Green |
| Album | Year | Artist | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Torben | 2010 | Brock Enright & Kirsten Deirup | |
| Exclamation Point | 2010 | DA! | |
| Sub-Urban Insult Rock for the Anti-Lectual | 2010 | Tutu & the Pirates | |
| Heaven Know's What: Original Music From the Film | 2015 | Ariel Pink and Blood Orange |
Factory 25 was named "Best Distributor" by The L Magazine in their "Best of Brooklyn 2013: Film" article.[23]