NonStop, Submarine Align for Doc Distribution Label

AMSTERDAM/STOCKHOLM: Submarine and NonStop Entertainment have aligned to launch a new documentary-centric label in Scandinavia, NonStop Submarine.

NonStop Submarine will aim to distribute a minimum of 10 to 15 titles a year theatrically and across all digital, DVD, TV and streaming platforms in Scandinavia and the Baltics, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Holland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Titles on the initial launch slate include Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Chris Burden: Double Bind, a Kenny Scharf doc, Sneakerheadz, Welcome to Leith, the Hedy Lamarr doc Heady Days and Mavis!

“We have had a very fun and successful collaboration over the years and our filmmakers and producers couldn’t have a better home and distributor as NonStop Entertainment,” Submarine partner David Koh and co-presidents Dan Braun and Josh Braun said in a joint statement. “Scandinavian audiences are amongst the most sophisticated in the world and doc crazy and we look forward to supplying great films, stories and human voices from around the world by great directors as we help to expand the doc market in Scandinavia with NonStop and worldwide. We look forward to working with Jakob [Abrahamsson, NonStop’s CEO] and his team on our upcoming slate.”

Abrahamsson commented, “We’re delighted that one of the first steps we take as a newly reborn independent player is to solidify our relationship with Submarine, one of the world’s most prominent documentary crews, and hence to work more closely with David, Dan and Josh and their team, whose impeccable tastes and sensibilities are very much aligned with ours and to get in early on some of the greatest docs made.”