About Passion River
Since 1998, Passion River Films has been devoted to acquiring, distributing and representing unique independent films and documentaries. Our award winning and festival favorite features have made their home on shelves of various notable film libraries and institutions. Our deep catalog represents films focused on a multitude of topics including Multicultural Studies, Women’s Studies, Medical Studies and Advances, Religious and Spiritual studies, Environmentalism, Aging, Drug Addiction, LGBT and more!
Passion River Films is a film distributor specializing in documentaries & indie films that engage with audiences and impact communities. We handle movie distribution to theaters, VOD, home video, and to academic and digital markets. Passion River's diverse catalog features Academy Award and Emmy-winning films as well as films that have been recognized at Independent Spirit Awards, Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival and many other prestigious events.
Passion River Films is a film distributor specializing in documentaries & indie films that engage with audiences and impact communities. We handle movie distribution to theaters, VOD, home video, and to academic and digital markets. Passion River's diverse catalog features Academy Award and Emmy-winning films as well as films that have been recognized at Independent Spirit Awards, Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival and many other prestigious events.
Josh Levin
Head of Sales & Acquisitions
Josh Levin brings the perfect mix of experience to the role, having been a film distribution executive, documentary film producer and art house cinema operator, as well as a professor of film distribution, marketing and finance at New York University and American University in Washington, DC. With that range of expertise, Josh is the ideal partner to help you navigate the waters of getting your film in front of audiences.
Josh joined the Passion River team in 2017, launching our theatrical releasing program prior to becoming head of sales and acquisitions in March 2021. Josh previously spent three years as the Chief Marketing Officer at Film Movement, the New York-based art house cinema distributor, where he created and managed marketing, advertising and publicity campaigns for over 25 feature films released to the theatrical, festival, institutional, home video and television markets. Projects Josh worked on included films from stars such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Elliot Page, Sandra Oh and Rose Byrne, and top award-nominated directors Deepa Mehta, Joseph Cedar and Scott Hamilton Kennedy.
As a filmmaker, Josh has produced or executive produced five documentary features, including CORMAN'S WORLD: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (Sundance and Cannes, 2011, national theatrical release, broadcast by A&E) and CAPE SPIN: An American Power Struggle (IDFA 2011, Film at Lincoln Center Art of the Real November 2012, platform theatrical release, broadcast by Link TV).
In 2010, Josh returned to his home town of Washington, DC and opened West End Cinema, named Washington, DC's Best Independent Movie Theater by Washington City Paper and maker of the Best Popcorn in DC (according to TBD.com). West End Cinema specialized in the kinds of art house fare that found audiences through grassroots and retail marketing, elbow grease and passion.
Josh joined the Passion River team in 2017, launching our theatrical releasing program prior to becoming head of sales and acquisitions in March 2021. Josh previously spent three years as the Chief Marketing Officer at Film Movement, the New York-based art house cinema distributor, where he created and managed marketing, advertising and publicity campaigns for over 25 feature films released to the theatrical, festival, institutional, home video and television markets. Projects Josh worked on included films from stars such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Elliot Page, Sandra Oh and Rose Byrne, and top award-nominated directors Deepa Mehta, Joseph Cedar and Scott Hamilton Kennedy.
As a filmmaker, Josh has produced or executive produced five documentary features, including CORMAN'S WORLD: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (Sundance and Cannes, 2011, national theatrical release, broadcast by A&E) and CAPE SPIN: An American Power Struggle (IDFA 2011, Film at Lincoln Center Art of the Real November 2012, platform theatrical release, broadcast by Link TV).
In 2010, Josh returned to his home town of Washington, DC and opened West End Cinema, named Washington, DC's Best Independent Movie Theater by Washington City Paper and maker of the Best Popcorn in DC (according to TBD.com). West End Cinema specialized in the kinds of art house fare that found audiences through grassroots and retail marketing, elbow grease and passion.
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