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EXCLUSIVE: Antenna Releasing has acquired North American authorities to Lemonade Blessing aft nan film’s Tribeca Festival world premiere and a celebrated tally connected nan Letterboxd ‘Unreleased Gems’ VOD platform.
The coming-of-age movie is nan directing debut of Chris Merola. It stars Jake Ryan, who has gained announcement by playing a important domiciled successful Wes Anderson’s different ensemble-cast Asteroid City and appearing successful nan director’s Moonrise Kingdom and Isle of Dogs.
Lemonade Blessing, which world premiered astatine Tribeca successful 2025, went connected to person affirmative reviews connected Letterboxd and was subsequently featured connected nan platform’s “Unreleased Gems” VOD platform. The “shelf” of nan integer outlet’s Video Store work offers vulnerability for 30 days to films deemed worthy of wider attention. Letterboxd has much than 30 cardinal members and has emerged arsenic a potent shaper of assemblage opinion, particularly for lesser-known specialty releases.
Antenna is readying a late-August theatrical release, and will put nan movie retired successful beingness media formats aft its theatrical opening.
Per nan charismatic logline, Lemonade Blessing centers connected John (Ryan), a delicate teen whose devout mother enrolls him successful a backstage Catholic school. His religion becomes tested by his burgeoning narration pinch Lilith (Skye Alyssa Friedman), a classmate who takes each opportunity to thumb her chemoreceptor astatine nan confines of religion.
“Lemonade Blessing is simply a movie that’s truthful adjacent to my heart, I americium profoundly thrilled and honored to person recovered specified passionate, bespoke, filmmaker-forward, and genuinely benignant collaborators successful Antenna Releasing,” Merola said successful a statement.
Letterboxd CEO and co-founder Matthew Buchanan said nan institution is “honored that emerging filmmakers for illustration Chris Merola spot america pinch their unreleased films earlier they’ve recovered a location elsewhere. Lemonade Blessing has precisely nan benignant of confident, individual filmmaking that deserves a wider audience, and seeing it find 1 is nan result we dream for each clip we programme an Unreleased Gem connected Video Store.”
New Zealand-based Letterboxd has antecedently collaborated pinch Antenna connected titles for illustration nan documentary Stolen Kingdom.
Antenna Chief Acquisitions Officer Billy Ray Brewton praised Merola’s “deft manus astatine creating engaging and analyzable characters and his proficiency astatine treating belief themes pinch sensitivity and care.”
Brewton, a filmmaker, movie programmer and podcaster, co-founded Antenna pinch Ryan Verrill of The Disc-Connected and Someone’s Favorite Productions web and filmmaker Francis Galluppi (Last Stop successful Yuma County, Evil Dead Wrath).
