Matt Grady

Factory 25 is a Brooklyn-based independent film distribution and production company, founded by Matt Grady in 2009.

History Grady founded Factory 25 in 2009 after leaving a position as director of production at Plexifilm. The name Factory 25 is from "the manufacturing home of the famous 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card".

The company's first release, Frownland, was the film that inspired Grady to create his own distribution company, as he believed no other company would distribute the film.

, Grady remained the company's sole employee.

Releases

The films that Factory 25 produces and distributes are often microbudget features with nontraditional narratives. Factory 25 largely focuses on physical releases such as DVDs, Blu-Rays, VHS Tapes, CDs and Vinyl LPs. , a typical production run consisted of 1,000 DVD-LP pairs (movie and soundtrack), where sale of 40% of the production run would be the break-even point. Matt Grady has expressed a desire to make the company's physical releases collectible and appealing, "like a fetish item". The company has worked and distributed films alongside notable distribution companies such as Oscilloscope Laboratories and streaming services such as Fandor.

Filmography

Distributed By Factory 25:

Title Year Director Hero 1983 Alexandre Rockwell Blood Brothers 1989 Mike Diana Baked Baby Jesus 1990 Mike Diana In the Soup 1992 Alexandre Rockwell Dutch Harbor - Where the Sea Breaks Its Back 1998 Braden King and Laura Moya Funny Ha Ha 2002 Andrew Bujalski High School Record 2005 Ben Wolfinsohn We Go Way Back 2006 Lynn Shelton You Weren't There 2007 Joe Losurdo and Christina Tillman Frownland 2007 Ronald Bronstein Altamont Now 2008 Joshua von Brown Make-out With Violence 2008 The Deagol Brothers Until the Light Takes Us 2008 Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell You Wont Miss Me 2009 Ry Russo-Young Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo 2009 Jessica Oreck Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same 2009 Jody Lee Lipes Impolex 2009 Alex Ross Perry Wah Do Dem 2009 Sam Fleischner and Ben Chace Rio Breaks 2009 Justin Mitchell Damon and Naomi: 1001 Nights 2009 Cedrick Eymenier All the Way from Michigan Not Mars 2009 Matt Boyd Gabi on the Roof in July 2010 Lawrence Michael Levine Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then 2010 Brent Green Shit Year 2010 Cam Archer Two Gates of Sleep 2010 Alistair Banks Griffith Vacation! 2010 Zach Clark N.Y. Export: Op. Jazz 2010 Jody Lee Lipes and Henry Joost Convento 2010 Jarred Alterman I am Secretly an Important Man 2010 Peter Sillen The Oregonian 2011 Calvin Lee Reeder The Zone 2011 Joe Swanberg The Color Wheel 2011 Sophia Takal Buttons 2011 The Safdie Brothers Art History 2011 Joe Swanberg Silver Bullets 2011 Joe Swanberg New Jerusalem 2011 Rick Alverson Fake It So Real 2011 Robert Greene Jobriath A.D. 2012 Kieran Turner Kid-Thing 2012 David Zellner Bad Fever 2012 Dustin Guy Defa Better Than Something: Jay Reatard 2012 Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz Sun Don't Shine 2012 Amy Seimetz Pavilion 2012 Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky First Winter 2012 Benjamin Dickinson All the Light in the Sky 2012 Joe Swanberg The Sheik and I 2012 Caveh Zahedi White Reindeer 2013 Zach Clark The Voice of the Voiceless 2013 Maximón Monihan Boneshaker 2013 Frances Bodomo Privacy Setting 2013 Joe Swanberg Soft in the Head 2013 Nathan Silver Hellaware 2013 Michael M. Bilandic Bluebird 2013 Lance Edmands Little Feet 2013 Aaron Schimberg Brothers Hypnotic 2013 Reuben Atlas Buzzard 2014 Joel Potrykus Young Bodies Heal Quickly 2014 Andrew T. Betzer Christmas, Again 2014 Charles Poekel Down in Shadowland 2014 Tom DiCillo Sex and Broadcasting: A Film About WFMU 2014 Tim K. Smith Diamond Tongues 2015 Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) 2015 Juan Daniel F. Molero Stinking Heaven 2015 Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden Uncle Kent 2 2019 Tyler Taormina Empty Metal 2019 Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer Tito 2019 Grace Glowicki Other Music 2019 Rob Hatch-Miller & Puloma Basu Frances Ferguson 2019 Bob Byington Queen of Lapa 2019 Theodore Collatos & Carolina Monnerat Amateur on Plastic 2020 Mark Robinson Inspector Ike 2020 Graham Mason Superior 2021 Erin Vassilopoulos Honky Kong 2021 Stephen Gurewitz Topology of Sirens 2021 Jonathan Davies Out of Time: The Material Issue Story 2021 Balin Schneider Actual People 2021 Kit Zauhar You Mean Everything to Me 2021 Bryan Wizemann Happer's Comet 2022 Tyler Taormina Queens of the Qing Dynasty 2022 Ashley McKenzie Warm Blood 2022 Rick Charnoski Quantum Cowboys 2022 Geoff Marslett Way Out Ahead of Us 2022 Rob Rice The Reverend 2022 Nick Canfield We Were Famous, You Don't Remember: The Embarrassment 2022 Daniel Fetherston & Danny Szlauderbach Residency 2023 Winnie Cheung Hummingbirds 2023 Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía "Beba" Contreras This Closeness 2023 Kit Zauhar Louder Than You Think 2023 Jed I. Rosenberg An Evening Song (for Three Voices) 2023 Graham Swon Family Portrait 2023 Lucy Kerr Crass: The Sound of Free Speech (The Story of Reality Asylum) 2023 Brandon Spivey Sam's World 2024 Lily Lady A Man Imagined 2024 Melanie Shatzky & Brian M. Cassidy The Heirloom 2024 Ben Petrie Vulcanizadora 2024 Joel Potrykus No Sleep Till 2024 Alexandra Simpson Or Something 2024 Jeffrey Scotti Schroeder Lump 2024 Alexandre Rockwell Softshell 2024 Jinho Myung City Wide Fever 2025 Josh Heaps The Hedonist 2025 Nick Funess The Gits - 20th Anniversary Edition 2025 Kerri O'Kane Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted 2025 Isaac Gale & Ryan Olson Micro Budget 2025 Morgan Evans

Produced By Factory 25:

Title Year Director Summer of Blood 2014 Onur Tukel Applesauce 2015 Onur Tukel Abby Singer/Songwriter 2015 Onur Tukel Cooklyn 2016 Bryan Wizemann Tormenting the Hen 2017 Theodore Collatos The Great Pretender 2018 Nathan Silver Queen of Lapa 2019 Theodore Collatos You Mean Everything to Me 2020 Bryan Wizemann Inspector Ike 2020 Graham Mason All The Old Bells 2020 Brent Green Vulcanizadora 2024 Joel Potrykus

Music Releases

Album Year Artist Music from Frownland 2008 Paul Grimstad Damon and Naomi: 1001 Nights 2001-2009 Naomi Yang You Weren't There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-1984 2009 Various Artists All the Way from Michigan Not Mars 2009 Rosie Thomas, Sufjan Stephens, and Denison Witmer Make-Out With Violence Soundtrack 2009 The Non-Commissioned Officers You Wont Miss Me 2009 Stylofone Torben 2010 Brock Enright & Kirsten Deirup Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same 2010 Jody Lee Lipes Exclamation Point 2010 DA! Sub-Urban Insult Rock for the Anti-Lectual 2010 Tutu & the Pirates I Am Secretly an Important Man 2011 Jessie Bernstein The Oregonian Soundtrack 2011 Calvin Lee Reeder Found Stock: Better Than Something: Jay Reatard 2012 Jay Reatard Pavilion Original Soundtrack 2012 Sam Prekop Brothers Hypnotic 2013 Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Unreleased Music from "POPSTAR," Jobriath's Lost Musical 2013 Jobriath Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film 2014 Bill Callahan I'll Cut Yo Dick Off 2014 The Young Torture Killers Heaven Knows What: Original Music From the Film 2015 Ariel Pink and Blood Orange Tour of WFMU 2016 Dave Hill & Scott Williams August at Akiko's 2019 Alex Zhang Hungtai Other Music 2021 Various Artists Blammo!! Wams & Bams Mysteroid 2023 Grymstyd (aka: Paul Grimstad)

Accolades Factory 25 was named "Best Distributor" by The L Magazine in their "Best of Brooklyn 2013: Film" article.