Into The Spotlight by Thaddeus D. Matula: on VOD and DVD February 21

Documentary Profiling Theater Troupe Made Up of People with Disabilities Sets Digital Debut for North American VOD Platforms and DVD on February 21, 2025

Los Angeles, CA (March 19, 2025). Freestyle Digital Media is the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group. It proudly announces the acquisition of North American VOD rights to the uplifting and heartfelt documentary Into The Spotlight. Which is available to rent/own on all North American digital HD internet. Cable, and satellite platforms, as well as on DVD, starting on February 21, 2025.

Into The Spotlight is a heartfelt documentary feature film that follows a Dallas-based theater troupe. Composed of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They are determined to write, rehearse, and perform their 11th annual original musical. Into The Spotlight conveys the heartfelt story. Of how a script, a stage, and a theater program composed of adults with disabilities celebrate their creativity. Explore life’s complexities, and empower a community in their own words and their own way.

A lot of the time, documentaries that focus on disabled communities are experts explaining how these people feel. Into The Spotlight is entirely from the POV of the individuals, giving them a voice. Nothing is editorialized and neither are there any people speaking for or on behalf of them. Only disabled people are interviewed, and the only people who answer the questions are the disabled people themselves.

The Official Trailer for Into The Spotlight Directed by Thaddeus D. Matula

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Thaddeus D Matula.  Into The Spotlight is a production by Reverend Paul Rasmussen, Thaddeus D Matula, and King Hollis. It features and profiles real-life disabled theatre performers. Including Christi Davenport, Cindy Johnston, Jason Carter, Daniel Wade, Andrea Parton, Sally Smith, Nancy Appelman, and Jacob Kunko.

“The Spotlight Musical Theater troupe are some of the most talented and empathic artists I have had the pleasure to meet. Much less work with,” said filmmaker Thaddeus D. Matula. “These individuals speak for themselves and reveal to us their world. Into The Spotlight is their story in their own words.”

Freestyle Digital Media negotiated the deal to acquire Into The Spotlight directly with the filmmakers.

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