'''Factory 25''' is a Brooklyn-based independent film distribution and production company, founded by Matt Grady in 2009.
==History== Grady founded ''Factory 25'' in 2009 after leaving a position as director of production at Plexifilm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/factory-25-matt-grady|title=Factory Boy: Matt Grady Talks Distribution|date=December 22, 2010}}</ref> The name ''Factory 25'' is from "the manufacturing home of the famous 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moviemaker.com/archives/articles/factory-25-trailblazer-tuesday/|title=Factory 25: Turning art films into art objects|last=Hillis|first=Aaron|date=2 July 2013|website=MovieMaker|location=Playa Vista, California|access-date=29 Dec 2019}}</ref>
The company's first release, ''Frownland'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2009/06/new-distrib-factory-25-melds-music-and-film-in-brooklyn-70240/|title=New Distrib Factory 25 Melds Music and Film in Brooklyn|first1=Bryce J.|last1=Renninger|date=June 26, 2009}}</ref> was the film that inspired Grady to create his own distribution company, as he believed no other company would distribute the film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moviemaker.com/archives/articles/factory-25-trailblazer-tuesday/|title = MovieMaker Magazine: The Art and Craft of Making Movies}}</ref>
{{As of|2010||df=}}, Grady remained the company's sole employee.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/movies/22indie.html|title=D.I.Y. Music Labels Embrace D.I.Y. Film|last=Ryzik|first=Melena|date=20 August 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=29 Dec 2019|url-access=limited}}</ref>
==Releases==
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. {{As of|2010||df=}}, 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.<ref name=":0" /> The company's physical releases often include objects such as 16mm film strips, drawings and written essays.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703581204576033721699409848|title=The Art Is in the Packaging|last=Dollar|first=Steve|date=December 22, 2010|work=The Wall Street Journal|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Matt Grady has expressed a desire to make the company's physical releases collectible and appealing, "like a fetish item".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/movies/22indie.html|title=Jagjaguwar, Factory 25 and Indie Film|first=Melena|last=Ryzik|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 20, 2010}}</ref> The company has worked and distributed films alongside notable distribution companies such as Oscilloscope Laboratories and streaming services such as Fandor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fandor-partners-with-cinedigm-factory-25-and-oscilloscope-laboratories-234485071.html|title=Fandor Partners With Cinedigm, Factory 25 and Oscilloscope Laboratories|website=www.prnewswire.com}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2012/06/factory-25-acquires-pavilion-for-worldwide-distribution-exclusive-digital-distribution-with-oscilloscope-labs-46332/|title=Factory 25 Acquires 'Pavilion' for Worldwide Distribution; Exclusive Digital Distribution with Oscilloscope Labs|last1=Sridhar|first1=Srimathi|date=June 26, 2012|website=IndieWire|publisher=Penske Business Media|access-date=30 Dec 2019}}</ref>
==Filmography==
'''Distributed By Factory 25:'''
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Title !! Year !! Director |- | ''Hero'' || 1983 || Alexandre Rockwell |- | ''Blood Brothers'' || 1989 || Mike Diana |- | ''Baked Baby Jesus'' || 1990 || Mike Diana |- | ''In the Soup''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/103031-alexandre-rockwell-on-restoring-and-preserving-the-unique-black-and-white-of-in-the-soup/|title=Alexandre Rockwell on Restoring and Preserving the Unique Black and White of In the Soup|date=1 August 2017|website=Filmmaker|publisher=Filmmaker Magazine|type=Interview|access-date=29 Dec 2019}}</ref>|| 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<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/frownland|title=Frownland|last=Brody|first=Richard|author-link=Richard Brody|date=October 6, 2009|magazine=The New Yorker|publisher=Condé Nast|url-access=limited|access-date=30 Dec 2019}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bkmag.com/2016/04/11/big-ears-2016/|title=Knoxville's Big Ears Festival, the Avant-Garde SXSW, Adds a Film Program|last=Cronk|first=Jordan|date=11 April 2016|website=Brooklyn|publisher=Brooklyn Magazine|access-date=30 Dec 2019}}</ref>|| 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 |- | ''N.Y. Export: Op. Jazz'' || 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''<ref name=":3" />|| 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''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/50006-factory-25-acquires-sophia-takals-green-for-world-distribution/|title=FACTORY 25 ACQUIRES SOPHIA TAKAL'S "GREEN" FOR WORLD DISTRIBUTION|first=Scott|last=Macaulay|date=9 August 2012}}</ref> || 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''<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-state-of-the-art-film|title=The State of the "Art Film"|last=Brody|first=Richard|author-link=Richard Brody|date=January 17, 2013|magazine=The New Yorker|via=Condé Nast|url-access=limited|access-date=29 Dec 2019}}</ref>|| 2012 || Amy Seimetz |- | ''Pavilion''<ref name=":2" />|| 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''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2012/film/news/factory-25-takes-francine-1118059040/|title=Factory 25 takes 'Francine'|first1=Gordon|last1=Cox|date=September 10, 2012}}</ref> || 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 |- | ''White Reindeer'' || 2013 || Zach Clark |- | ''The Voice of the Voiceless'' || 2013 || Maximón Monihan |- | ''Boneshaker''<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/88373-factory-25-acquires-little-feet-and-boneshaker/|title=Factory 25 Acquires Little Feet and Boneshaker|first=Sarah|last=Salovaara|date=18 November 2014}}</ref> || 2013 || Frances Bodomo |- | ''Privacy Setting'' || 2013 || Joe Swanberg |- | ''Soft in the Head'' || 2013 || Nathan Silver |- | ''Hellaware'' || 2013 || Michael M. Bilandic |- | ''Bluebird''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/john-slatterys-bluebird-bought-for-u-s-by-factory-25-1201368715/|title=John Slattery's 'Bluebird' Bought for U.S. by Factory 25|first1=Dave|last1=McNary|date=December 2, 2014}}</ref> || 2013 || Lance Edmands |- | ''Little Feet''<ref name="auto"/> || 2013 || Alexandre Rockwell |- | ''See You Next Tuesday'' || 2013 || Drew Tobia |- | ''Go Down Death''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/84696-go-down-death-acquired-by-factory-25/|title=Go Down Death Acquired by Factory 25|first=Sarah|last=Salovaara|date=27 February 2014}}</ref> || 2013 || Aaron Schimberg |- | ''Brothers Hypnotic'' || 2013 || Reuben Atlas |- | ''Buzzard'' || 2014 || Joel Potrykus |- | ''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''<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2015/06/fandor-and-factory-25-jointly-acquire-7-feature-films-60636/|title=Fandor and Factory 25 Jointly Acquire 7 Feature Films|last=Choi|first=Sarah|date=25 June 2015|website=IndieWire|publisher=Penske Business Media|access-date=30 Dec 2019}}</ref>|| 2015 || Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson |- | ''Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/peru-oscar-entry-videofilia-ports-162914996.html|title=Peru Oscar Entry 'Videofilia' Ports To Factory 25; 'The War Show' Acquired By Bond/360 – Film Briefs|website=www.yahoo.com}}</ref> || 2015 || Juan Daniel F. Molero |- | ''Stinking Heaven''<ref name=":1" />|| 2015 || Nathan Silver |- | ''Almost There''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2015/11/factory-25-acquires-outsider-art-documentary-almost-there-54386/|title=Factory 25 Acquires Outsider Art Documentary 'Almost There'|last=Page|first=Aubrey|date=November 12, 2015|website=IndieWire|publisher=Penske Business Media|access-date=30 Dec 2019}}</ref>|| 2015 || Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden |- | ''Uncle Kent 2''<ref name=":1" />|| 2015 || Todd Rohall |- | ''Dwarves Kingdom'' || 2015 || Matthew Salton |- | ''Bloomin Mud Shuffle'' || 2015 || Frank V. Ross |- | ''Come Down Molly'' || 2015 || Gregory Kohn |- | ''Abby Singer/Songwriter'' || 2015 || Onur Tukel |- | ''Ma'' || 2015 || Celia Rowlson-Hall |- | ''Homemakers'' || 2015 || Colin Healey |- | ''The Lost Arcade'' || 2015 || A.D. Calvo |- | ''The Missing Girl'' || 2015 || Kurt Vincent |- | ''Little Sister'' || 2016 || Zach Clark |- | ''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 |- | ''California Dreams'' || 2017 || Mike Ott |- | ''Sylvio'' || 2017 || Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley |- | ''Assholes'' || 2017 || Peter Vack |- | ''The Show About the Show'' || 2017 || Caveh Zahedi |- | ''Sundowners'' || 2017 || Pavan Moondi |- | ''Tormenting the Hen'' || 2017 || Theodore Collatos |- | ''The Misogynists'' || 2017 || Onur Tukel |- | ''The Great Pretender'' || 2018 || Nathan Silver |- | ''The Unicorn'' || 2018 || Timothy Geraghty & Isabelle Dupuis |- | ''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''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/locarno-film-festival-selection-ham-on-rye-lands-at-factory-25-exclusive/5141967.article|title=Locarno Film Festival selection 'Ham On Rye' lands at Factory 25 (exclusive)|first=Jeremy|last=Kay|website=Screen}}</ref> || 2019 || Tyler Taormina |- | ''Empty Metal'' || 2019 || Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer |- | ''Tito'' || 2019 || Grace Glowicki |- | ''Other Music'' || 2019 || Rob Hatch-Miller & Puloma Basu |- | ''Frances Ferguson'' || 2019 || Bob Byington |- | ''Queen of Lapa'' || 2019 || Theodore Collatos & Carolina Monnerat |- | ''Amateur on Plastic'' || 2020 || Mark Robinson |- | ''Inspector Ike'' || 2020 || Graham Mason |- | ''Superior'' || 2021 || Erin Vassilopoulos |- | ''Honky Kong'' || 2021 || Stephen Gurewitz |- | ''Topology of Sirens'' || 2021 || Jonathan Davies |- | ''Out of Time: The Material Issue Story'' || 2021 || Balin Schneider |- | ''Actual People'' || 2021 || Kit Zauhar |- | ''You Mean Everything to Me'' || 2021 || Bryan Wizemann |- | ''Happer's Comet'' || 2022 || Tyler Taormina |- | ''Queens of the Qing Dynasty'' || 2022 || Ashley McKenzie |- | ''Warm Blood'' || 2022 || Rick Charnoski |- | ''Quantum Cowboys'' || 2022 || Geoff Marslett |- | ''Way Out Ahead of Us'' || 2022 || Rob Rice |- | ''The Reverend'' || 2022 || Nick Canfield |- | ''We Were Famous, You Don't Remember: The Embarrassment'' || 2022 || Daniel Fetherston & Danny Szlauderbach |- | ''Residency'' || 2023 || Winnie Cheung |- | ''Hummingbirds'' || 2023 || Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía "Beba" Contreras |- | ''This Closeness'' || 2023 || Kit Zauhar |- | ''Louder Than You Think'' || 2023 || Jed I. Rosenberg |- | ''An Evening Song (for Three Voices)'' || 2023 || Graham Swon |- | ''Family Portrait'' || 2023 || Lucy Kerr |- | ''Crass: The Sound of Free Speech (The Story of Reality Asylum)'' || 2023 || Brandon Spivey |- | ''Sam's World'' || 2024 || Lily Lady |- | ''A Man Imagined'' || 2024 || Melanie Shatzky & Brian M. Cassidy |- | ''The Heirloom'' || 2024 || Ben Petrie |- | ''Vulcanizadora'' || 2024 || Joel Potrykus |- | ''No Sleep Till'' || 2024 || Alexandra Simpson |- | ''Or Something'' || 2024 || Jeffrey Scotti Schroeder |- | ''Lump'' || 2024 || Alexandre Rockwell |- | ''Softshell'' || 2024 || Jinho Myung |- | ''City Wide Fever'' || 2025 || Josh Heaps |- | ''The Hedonist'' || 2025 || Nick Funess |- | ''The Gits - 20th Anniversary Edition'' || 2025 || Kerri O'Kane |- | ''Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted'' || 2025 || Isaac Gale & Ryan Olson |- | ''Micro Budget'' || 2025 || Morgan Evans |}
'''Produced By Factory 25:'''
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Title !! Year !! Director |- | Summer of Blood || 2014 || Onur Tukel |- | Applesauce || 2015 || Onur Tukel |- | Abby Singer/Songwriter || 2015 || Onur Tukel |- | Cooklyn || 2016 || Bryan Wizemann |- | Tormenting the Hen || 2017 || Theodore Collatos |- | The Great Pretender || 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 |- | Vulcanizadora || 2024 || Joel Potrykus |}
==Music Releases==
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Album !! Year !! Artist |- | Music from Frownland || 2008 || Paul Grimstad |- | Damon and Naomi: 1001 Nights || 2001-2009 || Naomi Yang |- | You Weren't There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-1984 || 2009 || Various Artists |- | All the Way from Michigan Not Mars || 2009 || Rosie Thomas, Sufjan Stephens, and Denison Witmer |- | Make-Out With Violence Soundtrack || 2009 || The Non-Commissioned Officers |- | You Wont Miss Me || 2009 || Stylofone |- | Torben || 2010 || Brock Enright & Kirsten Deirup |- | Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same || 2010 || Jody Lee Lipes |- | Exclamation Point || 2010 || DA! |- | Sub-Urban Insult Rock for the Anti-Lectual || 2010 || Tutu & the Pirates |- | I Am Secretly an Important Man || 2011 || Jessie Bernstein |- | The Oregonian Soundtrack || 2011 || Calvin Lee Reeder |- | Found Stock: Better Than Something: Jay Reatard || 2012 || Jay Reatard |- | Pavilion Original Soundtrack || 2012 || Sam Prekop |- | Brothers Hypnotic || 2013 || Hypnotic Brass Ensemble |- | Unreleased Music from "POPSTAR," Jobriath's Lost Musical || 2013 || Jobriath |- | Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film || 2014 || Bill Callahan |- | I'll Cut Yo Dick Off || 2014 || The Young Torture Killers |- | Heaven Knows What: Original Music From the Film || 2015 || Ariel Pink and Blood Orange |- | Tour of WFMU || 2016 || Dave Hill & Scott Williams |- | August at Akiko's || 2019 || Alex Zhang Hungtai |- | Other Music || 2021 || Various Artists |- | Blammo!! Wams & Bams Mysteroid || 2023 || Grymstyd (aka: Paul Grimstad) |}
==Accolades== ''Factory 25'' was named "Best Distributor" by The L Magazine in their "Best of Brooklyn 2013: Film" article.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thelmagazine.com/2013/07/best-of-brooklyn-2013-film/|title=Best of Brooklyn 2013: Film|date=July 31, 2013|website=The L Magazine|access-date=29 Dec 2019}}</ref>
== References == <!-- Inline citations added to your article will automatically display here. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:REFB for instructions on how to add citations. --> {{reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* Founder Grady appears on this list: {{Cite web|url=http://www.bkmag.com/2014/03/11/the-100-most-influential-people-in-brooklyn-culture/|title=The 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture|last=Staff|date=11 March 2014|website=Brooklyn|publisher=Brooklyn Magazine|access-date=30 Dec 2019}} *Founder Grady presenting at SXSW 2016: {{Cite web|url=https://schedule.sxsw.com/2016/events/event_PP90156|title=Mentors - Distribution: Matt Grady (Factory 25)|date=2016|website=SXSW Schedule|publisher=SXSW LLC|type=Announcement of presentation schedule|access-date=30 Dec 2019}}
=== Interviews ===
*{{Cite interview|last=Grady|first=Matt|interviewer=Durga Chew-Bose|title=Factory Boy: Matt Grady Talks Distribution|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/factory-25-matt-grady|access-date=30 Dec 2019|work=Interview Magazine|date=22 December 2010}} *{{Cite interview|last=Grady|first=Matt|interviewer=Ursula Grisham|title=Matt Grady|url=http://www.filmatique.com/interviews-1/2018/matt-grady|access-date=30 Dec 2019|work=Filmatique|date=2018}}
== External links ==
* Factory 25 Website [http://www.factorytwentyfive.com/ FACTORY 25 - Home]
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