SnagFilms Acquires Digital and VOD Distribution Rights To Award-Winning Documentary “Dragonslayer”

WASHINGTON--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Today, SnagFilms announced that it has acquired domestic VOD and digital rights to the 2011 festival award winner Dragonslayer from director Tristan Patterson and executive producer Christine Vachon. The deal was negotiated by Andrew Mer, VP, Content Partnerships for SnagFilms and David Koh and Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment on behalf of the producer and filmmaker. The film was produced by John Baker. Dragonslayer won Best Documentary Feature and Best Cinematography at the 2011 South By Southwest Film Festival, as well as Best International Feature at Hot Docs 2011.

“We are thrilled by the opportunity to partner with SnagFilms and reach new audiences”

Dragonslayer will launch on VOD on Comcast Xfinity, FiOS and SnagFilms other multi-channel partners, and via SnagFilms electronic-sell-through partners, including iTunes and Amazon, following its 2011 nationwide theatrical release from Drag City Film Distribution. Ultimately the film will be available, on demand and for free, on SnagFilms.com, on the SnagFilms app for iPad and connected TV platforms Roku and Boxee, and on its extensive digital network of affiliate sites and web pages.

Dragonslayer documents the transgressions of a lost skate punk falling in love in the stagnant suburbs of Fullerton, California in the aftermath of America's economic collapse. Taking the viewer through a golden SoCal haze of broken homes, abandoned swimming pools and stray glimpses of unusual beauty, Dragonslayer captures the life and times of Josh “Skreech” Sandoval, a local skate legend and new father, as his endless summer finally collides with the future.

“We look forward to featuring this highly-compelling, award-winning documentary on all of our video on demand, digital and mobile platforms,” said SnagFilms CEO Rick Allen. “Christine Vachon is one of the most significant forces in independent film, and Tristan has created a captivating and deeply personal portrait, paired with an incredible soundtrack. Dragonslayer will take the SnagFilms audience – wherever they are on our digital network -- on a wild and unique ride.”

“We are thrilled by the opportunity to partner with SnagFilms and reach new audiences,” said director Tristan Patterson. “I love the idea that the movie is going to become easily accessible to everyone I really made it for, however they want to watch it.”

Set to the alternately roaring and dreamy soundtrack of bands from the indie labels Mexican Summer and Kemado Records—including Best Coast, Bipolar Bear, Children, Dungen, Eddy Current and the Suppression Ring, Golden Triangle, Jacuzzi Boys, Little Girls, Real Estate, The Soft Pack, Saviours, as well as DEATH and Thee Oh Sees — Dragonslayer is a punk rock manifesto to youth, love and learning to survive.

Dragonslayer will have its UK Premiere at the prestigious BFI London Film Festival this October before opening theatrically in New York City on November 4, 2011. The film will be released in Canada by filmswelike.

More information about the film is available at www.dragonslayermovie.com. Follow on Facebook and Twitter. The trailer is also available online.

About SnagFilms

SnagFilms features free, sponsor-supported, on demand viewing of more than 2,300 award-winning titles from some of the greatest names in film. SnagFilms’ curated film collection is viewed on its own site and a digital network of more than 110,000 affiliated sites and webpages worldwide, including partners such as AOL, Comcast, Hulu, the Starbucks Digital Network, IMDb, the Miami Herald, hundreds of non-profits, special interest sites and blogs — and via its applications for the iPad and connected TV platforms Roku and Boxee. SnagFilms’ titles have been featured on approximately 3 billion pageviews across its network.

SnagFilms also offers selected titles via pay video on demand with Comcast and FiOS, as well as on iTunes, HuluPlus, Amazon and other partners. SnagFilms was recently named one of the fastest growing technology companies in Washington, DC area. Gizmodo has named SnagFilms as a “Best iPad App,” OVGuide has twice named SnagFilms a Top Site, and MovieMaker Magazine named SnagFilms to its annual list of “50 Best Websites for Moviemakers.” The SnagFilms family also includes indieWIRE, for more than 15 years the web’s top source of news, reviews and information about independent film.