New Ad-Free Streaming Comedy Channel Acquires Worldwide Rights to
Tribeca Film Fest Docu About the LA Based All Female Basketball Team featuring Team Mates Aubrey Plaza, Melissa Stetten and Maria Blassuci
Executive Producer Morgan Spurlock Teams Up Once Again
With Director Brent Hodge For This Hilarious Non Fiction Film
New York, NY April 14, 2016 Seeso, the new ad–free streaming comedy channel, announced the acquisition of the brand new comedy documentary “THE PISTOL SHRIMPS” directed by Brent Hodge (I AM CHRIS FARLEY) and executive produced by Morgan Spurlock (INSIDE MAN; SUPER SIZE ME). Seeso will take worldwide rights for “THE PISTOL SHRIMPS” as its first direct-to-Seeso feature film after the film’s world premiere run at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. The announcement was made today on the day of the film’s World Premiere at the Festival.
“THE PISTOL SHRIMPS” is the fun new documentary following the 2015 season of the popular all female basketball team called The Pistol Shrimps – made up of actors, comedians and models in LA. Comic actress Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation), model Melissa Stern and actress/writer Maria Blasucci (Ghost Ghirls) are part of the ragtag team of trash-talking, hard fouling, wisecracking women who bring a much-needed edge to the game. Off the court, these women are also making it happen as writers, musicians, actors, comedians, moms and wives, who always have time on Tuesday nights for their games. The Pistol Shrimps are truly fearless women who are both ballers on and off the court.
“We are extremely excited to be partnering with Seeso,” said director Brent Hodge. “We set out to make a comedy-documentary, and we found the perfect avenue for our film. Seeso is truly creating a great place for comedy docs to live.”
“THE PISTOL SHRIMPS” re-teams director Hodge with executive producer Morgan Spurlock who partnered before on the 2014 hit documentary “A BRONY TALE” that also premiered at Tribeca.
“THE PISTOL SHRIMPS” is directed by Hodge; executive produced by Spurlock together with Jeremy Chilnick for Warrior Poets; and produced by Hodge, Rachel Ricketts and John Diemer for Hodgee Films.
“A documentary about an adult all-women’s recreational basketball team, named for an obscure crustacean, with players who are also comedians, musicians, models and attorneys, produced by Morgan Spurlock and directed by Brett Hodge? It’s a Slam Dunk,” said Evan Shapiro, Executive Vice President, Digital Enterprises, NBCUniversal.
The sale was negotiated by Morgan Spurlock for Warrior Poets/Hodgee Films and Evan Shapiro for Seeso.
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About Seeso:
Seeso is the new, ad-free streaming comedy channel from NBCUniversal’s Digital Enterprises. The channel gives comedy viewers access to over 2,000 hours of original programming, with new, original content rolling out daily. Viewers are able to access the curated library for $3.99 a month via www.seeso.com, iOS, Android, Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV and Fire Stick and Roku, with additional platforms added in the coming months.
About Warrior Poets Productions
Warrior Poets is a New York based multiplatform production company founded in 2004 by Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Since its creation, Warrior Poets has produced multiple award winning films and television programs. Films include One Direction: This Is Us; POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold; Comic-Con: Episode IV – A Fan’s Hope; Mansome; Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?; and Freakonomics. Television projects include the award-winning FX series 30 Days; the IDA award-winning CNN series Morgan Spurlock: Inside Man; Showtime’s 7 Deadly Sins; ESPN’s The Dotted Line; Emmy and Writer’s Guild nominated The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special in 3D on Ice!; and Sky Atlantic HD’s Morgan Spurlock’s New Britannia. Digital projects include Star Wars: In A Galaxy; Hulu’s A Day in the Life; Yahoo’s Mansome, Failure Club, and Losing It with John Stamos; AOL’s Connected; and the Maker Studios vertical, SMARTish.
About Hodgee Films
Hodgee Films is a Canadian based film company that focuses on pop culture documentaries, digital and commercial films worldwide. Hodgee Films released A Brony Tale which premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and included Morgan Spurlock as the executive producer. Other credits include Cameron’s House Rules, the digital web series for W Network, Consider The Source digital series with Disney’s Maker Studios as well as commercial content for Uber Technologies, Volkswagen, Samsung and more. Hodgee Films is owned/operated by Canadian Screen Award/Leo Award winning director Brent Hodge who directed I Am Chris Farley for Spike TV.