Freestyle Releasing

Freestyle Releasing is an for-hire independent film distributor founded in 2004, specializing in releasing films theatrically. Unlike most distributors, Freestyle Releasing does not put up any prints and advertising money for its releases.

Freestyle has a service distribution deal with Jeff Clanagan for a line of African-American movies called Code Black.

History
Freestyle Releasing was founded in 2004 by Susan Jackson, Mark Borde and Mike Doban, formerly at UA Theatres. By January 2006, Jackson started Freestyle Home Entertainment, her wholly owned DVD label, as an adjunct for additional leeway in its deal making. The company booked Winter Passing and Find Me Guilty for Yari Film Group in 2006. Jackson and Borde in 2010 formed Freestyle Digital Media, a film aggregator for the video on demand market.

By May 2011, Doban left to be chief operating officer at Sycamore Entertainment Group, a film prints and advertising (P&A) financing firm. Jackson died in October 2014. In October 2015 Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios acquired Freestyle for an undisclosed amount "said to be sealed for high-eight figures".

Entertainment Studios was sold to Joe Roth and Freestyle merged with Revolution Studios and Hannover House Films to form Styhon Partners Entertainment.

Units

 * Freestyle Digital Media, founded in 2010, a film aggregator for the video on demand market and the company has an output deal with Netflix.
 * Turtle’s Crossing, independent producer sales company, which was founded by Jackson in 1999 and represented producers in selling their films

Selected releases

 * Modigliani (2004)
 * Smile (2005)
 * Down and Derby (2005)
 * Citizen Verdict (2005)
 * Fighting Tommy Riley (2005)
 * The Story of an African Farm (2005)
 * The Pearl (2005)
 * Dirty Deeds (2005)
 * Green Street Hooligans (2005)
 * Winter Passing (2005)
 * Headspace (2006)
 * Find Me Guilty (2006)
 * Don’t Trip… He Ain’t Through With Me Yet! (2006)
 * Abominable (2006)
 * Preaching to the Choir (2006)
 * Standing Still (2006)
 * Killer Diller (2006)
 * An American Haunting (2006, After Dark)
 * Shadowboxer (2006)
 * The Illusionist (2006)
 * Artie Lange's Beer League (2006)
 * 8 Films To Die For: After Dark Horror fest (2006)
 * The Abandoned (2007)
 * Shattered (2007)
 * Skinwalkers (2007)
 * Gray Matters (2007)
 * First Snow (2007)
 * Kickin' It Old Skool (2007)
 * Civic Duty (2007)
 * Even Money (2007)
 * Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
 * Captivity (2007)
 * Resurrecting the Champ  (2007)
 * 7 Dias (2007)
 * Fierce People (2007)
 * Dragon Wars: D-War (2007)
 * Sharkwater (2007)
 * The Good Night (2007)
 * The Final Season (2007)
 * Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour (2007)
 * Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)
 * Christmas in Wonderland (2007)
 * The Perfect Holiday (2007)
 * Dirty Laundry (2007)
 * Postal (2008)
 * Seed (2008)
 * In the Name of the King (2008)
 * Remember the Daze (2008)
 * A Plumm Summer (2008)
 * Bottle Shock (2008)
 * Greetings from the Shore (2008)
 * The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)
 * Nobel Son (2008)
 * What Doesn’t Kill You (2008)
 * Delgo (2008)
 * Nothing But The Truth (2008)
 * C Me Dance (2009)
 * My One and Only (2009)
 * The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (2009)
 * I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009)
 * Me and Orson Welles (2009)
 * Motherhood (2009)
 * That Evening Sun (2009)
 * My One and Only (2009)
 * The Collector (2009)
 * Crazy on the Outside (2010)
 * N-Secure (2010)
 * Bitch Slap (2010)
 * A Shine of Rainbows (2010)
 * The Dry Land (2010)
 * Bran Nue Dae (2010)
 * I Want Your Money (2010)
 * Wild Target (2010)
 * The Nutcracker (2010)
 * Waiting for Forever (2010)
 * Skateland (2011)
 * Waiting for Forever (2010)
 * The Heart Specialist (2011)
 * Vidal Sassoon The Movie (2011)
 * Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011)
 * A Little Help (2011)
 * Redemption Road (2011)
 * Swinging with the Finkels (2011)
 * Sarah Palin: You Betcha! (2011)
 * Munger Road (2011)
 * The Mighty Macs (2011)
 * Funeral Kings (2012)
 * Crooked Arrows (2012)
 * Doonby (2012)
 * Deadline (2012)
 * Tomorrow When The War Began (2012)
 * After Dark Action (2012)
 * The Road (2012)
 * Cartas A Elena (2012)
 * The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (2012)
 * You May Not Kiss the Bride (2012)
 * A Measure of Faith (2012)
 * Branded (2012)
 * The Road (2012)
 * Hating Breitbart (2012)
 * The Playroom (2013)
 * Camp (2013)
 * The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone (2013)
 * Genius on Hold (2013)
 * inAPPropriate Comedy (2013)
 * Not Today (2013)
 * Tiger Eyes (2013)
 * Long Shot: The Kevin Laue Story (2013)
 * Hello Herman (2013)
 * Revelation Road 2 (2013)
 * Underdogs (2013)
 * A True Story (2013)
 * God's Not Dead (2014)
 * Jake Squared (2014)
 * Mr. Jones (2014)
 * The Hornet's Nest (2014)
 * Radio Free Albemuth (2014)
 * Come Back to Me (2014)
 * The Identical (2014)
 * In Fear (2014)
 * Small Time (2014)
 * From the Rough (2014)
 * A Stranger in Paradise (2014)
 * Someone Marry Barry (2014)
 * Return to Nuke 'Em High Vol.1 (2014)
 * At Middleton (2014)
 * Freezer (2014)
 * Bottled Up (2014)
 * Missing William (2014)
 * In the Blood
 * Jesus People (2014)
 * And So It Goes (2014)
 * 108 Stitches (2014)
 * Left Behind (2014)
 * Jinn (2014)
 * Falcon Rising (2014)
 * Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
 * Aftermath (2014)
 * Missionary (2014)
 * Mr. Pip (2014)
 * Three Night Stand (2015)
 * Cake (2015)
 * Old Fashioned (2015)
 * One Small Hitch (2015)
 * The Devil's Violinist (2015)
 * Hayride 2 (2015)
 * Zombeavers (2015)
 * Do You Believe? (2015)
 * The Sisterhood of Night (2015)
 * After the Ball (2015)
 * Brotherly Love (2015)
 * Black (2015)
 * Beyond the Mask (2015)
 * Hell & Back (2015)
 * The Summoning (2015)
 * The Suicide Theory (2015)
 * Northern Soul (2015)
 * El Americano: The Movie (2016) (A co-production with Animex Producciones, Phil Roman Entertainment, and Olmos Productions)
 * The Masked Saint (2016)
 * Meet the Blacks (2016)
 * Friend Request (2016)
 * Top Cat Begins (2016)
 * Alvin: The Stories of David Seville, The Chipmunks and The Chipettes (2016)
 * Believe (2016)