EXCLUSIVE: NoBudge, a Brooklyn-based streaming platform and distributor, is releasing its second feature — the micro-budget, lo-fi comedy Pomp & Circumstance from filmmakers Adrian Anderson and Patrick Gray — following its release of Tynan DeLong’s Dad & Step-Dad last year.
Pomp & Circumstance, which won the Audience Choice Award at the Tallahassee Film Festival and Best Feature Film at Subculture Film Festival (where it was the closing night selection), is set for an exclusive one-month release on NoBudge Sept. 18, with other VOD platforms like Amazon Prime and Apple TV following Oct. 18. Blu-Ray release will come via OCN Distribution next year.
NoBudge founder Kentucker Audley said, “Existing for over a decade predominantly in the short film internet streaming space, NoBudge is very excited to take another step into the wider film distribution landscape partnering with filmmakers for VOD streaming and physical media releases. Pomp & Circumstance fits in perfectly with our mission and ethos—a film made entirely outside the Hollywood ecosystem that beats to its own drum. The vision of directors Adrian Anderson and Patrick Gray is brimming with idiosyncratic enthusiasm, equal parts French New Wave and Mumblecore, and we’re excited to share it with audiences looking for something youthful, raw and different.”
Written and helmed by Anderson and Gray in their feature directorial debut, the Vermont- and Massachusetts-shot freewheeling film follows three soon-to-be college grads who become embroiled in their professor’s farcical mayoral campaign. Shot on 16 mm film on a $15,000 budget, the comedy is described as a “loving but sarcastic homage” to ’60s-era underground cinema and ’90s independent features, with the directing duo citing the likes of early Brian De Palma and Hal Hartman as inspirations.
Pic stars Ben Loftus, Noah Brockman, Isabel Zaia and Patrick J. Malone, with Tucker Bennett (The Code), Nora Austin Murphy and Alex Walton (Castration Movie) rounding out the cast. All four leads make their acting debuts.
Anderson said, “We couldn’t imagine a better home for Pomp & Circumstance than NoBudge. Kentucker’s commitment to championing work by emerging filmmakers is vital, and I’m extremely happy our debut now sits alongside such inspiring talent from across the indie film world.”
Founded in 2011 first as a curated Tumblr blog and evolving into a fully fledged website by 2015, NoBudge is dedicated to showcasing low-budget independent films across narrative, documentary and experimental formats. In 2021, the emerging indie platform launched its subscription service as a streamer.
