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Black & White Arthouse/Sci-Fi/Musical Adventure Sets Digital Debut for North American VOD Platforms and DVD
Los Angeles, CA (January, 9, 2024). Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, has acquired North American VOD rights to the arthouse/sci-fi/ musical adventure feature film OZMA, which will be available to rent/own on all digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms worldwide, as well as on DVD, starting on January 30, 2024, through Freestyle Digital Media.
OZMA is a unique movie… a sci-fi, arthouse, musical adventure… fantastic in every sense of the word. A beautiful black & white film that references 1950s b-movies and silent cinema, featuring a host of musicians who pop up on screen now & then to provide a musical backdrop to the action.
The film’s U.S. theatrical premiere will be in mid-February at the Boston Sci Fi Film Festival–the oldest genre festival in the country. It won ‘Best Feature’ at the Paracinema Film Festival in the UK last fall. The world premiere was at SCI-FI-LONDON at the city’s iconic Prince Charles Cinema.
OZMA follows the story of an insomniac, Jeff, who is struggling with the loss of his wife. When a strange jellyfish creature arrives at his house in the middle of the night, he takes it in and looks after it. Two uniformed police officers arrive on bicycles – they tie up Jeff and try to take the creature away, but it electrifies them and Jeff escapes with it on a stolen bicycle. He tries to ditch the creature but is persuaded to take it to a safe house. There they meet Joanne, with a baby jellyfish creature and a similar story of grief to Jeff. The creature tells Jeff that they all must go to Cleopatra’s Needle, the ancient obelisk in the center of London. Joanne resists and threatens Jeff with a gun. He overpowers her and heads to The Needle with the creatures, but can he get there before the evil police? And could this adventure change the way he deals with the loss of his wife?
The Official Trailer for OZMA
Directed and produced by Keith John Adams, OZMA features an ensemble cast that includes Ferdy Roberts (‘Jeff’), Gemma Saunders (‘Joanne’), Jun Noh (‘Policeman’), Victoria Moseley (‘Policewoman’), Eva Magyar (‘Ozma’), Alice Margaroli (‘Chloe’) and Lynn Ruth Miller (‘Alley Woman’).
“Ozma was a story that came to me during the Covid pandemic, influenced by all that suffering, isolation and loss,” said filmmaker director Keith John Adams. “I wanted to explore how we rebuild our lives through nurturing, love, purpose and action… but do it in a fantastical way, using B-movie and sci-fi tropes, with a heavy dose of fun and anarchy. And despite the difficulties and chaos of filmmaking it ended up remarkably true to the vision I had for the project.”
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