Luke Brawley, former festivals manager at UK doc specialist Dogwoof, is launching Indox, to provide festival strategy consultancy to non-fiction filmmakers.
Brawley is launching the company with CPH:DOX official selection title The Stimming Pool, directed by The Neurocultures Collective and Steven Eastwood, which is making its world premiere in the Special Premieres section. Brawley is attending the festival on the look out for further acquisitions.
UK-based Indox will work from initial festival strategies to full festival management, providing representation for films on the festival circuit and exposure to potential distribution partners.
The company is also representing Robie Flores’ The In Between, which debuted in the doc feature competition at SXSW this weekend.
The exec joined UK sales and distribution firm Dogwoof in 2014, where he worked on campaigns for titles including Maite Alberdi’s The Eternal Memory, Bing Liu’s Minding The Gap and Mstyslav Chernov’s 20 Days In Mariupol, which won the Oscar for best documentary last night. Brawley left Dogwoof last year.
“In an industry undergoing constant flux, where traditional methods no longer guarantee success and independent documentary production faces increasing challenges, I feel there’s a tendency to shy away from risk, favouring conventional moulds,” said Brawley. “Indox emerged as a response to this trend, leveraging my extensive industry experience and network to offer an alternative avenue to global audiences.”
He added the initial two titles “epitomise our commitment to showcasing a fresh wave of filmmakers” that “embody self-reflection, hybridity, diversity and inclusivity, elevating the art of nonfiction storytelling.”
A statement from the six-person The Neurocultures Collective and Eastwood said of The Stimming Pool, “Indox understood the film right away, they brought enormous skill and care to the process of pitching and placing it with festivals.” Alejandro J Flores, producer of The In Between, added he is looking forward to working with Brawley “for his ability to engage non-traditional personal films in dialogue with communities around the world.”
The Stimming Pool is produced by Chloe White for UK firm Whalebone Films, with Eastwood; while Flores produced The In Between with Kellen Quinn, producer of Oscar-nominated doc Time.
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