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EXCLUSIVE: Damian Abraham, frontman of punk set F*cked Up, and erstwhile CBC shaper Zach Feldberg person launched Cut & Paste Pictures retired of Toronto, Canada.
The institution has been softly operating since past twelvemonth and now officially debuts pinch a improvement slate spanning, scripted, unscripted and a documentary that’s presently successful production. The slate is being geared toward authored voices rooted successful music, counterculture and “outsider perspectives,” according nan co-founders, who named their institution owed to their DIY attack to creativity.
Cut & Paste is presently successful pre-production connected a feature-length documentary astir nan improbable lifelong relationship betwixt Rise Against guitarist Zach Blair and master wrestler Hassan ‘MVP’ Assad, from head Scott Barber (This is Gwar). Production originates this summertime successful and astir Texas, wherever MVP and Blair are based.
On nan improvement front, scripted characteristic movie I Just Want to Talk to You is based connected uncovered 1970s signaling by Charles K Brown, and tells nan communicative of teenage angst and unrequited cheery emotion that yet collapsed up his band. It’s written and directed by Kelly McCormack (A League of Their Own) and co-written by Tess Degenstein (The Monkey). The imaginative squad is nan aforesaid arsenic that down Sundance title How Brief.
Also successful improvement is half-hour drama bid Hoser, which Abraham co-created pinch Ehren ‘Bear Witness’ Thomas from The Halluci Nation. Greame Wilson (Freaks connected Fire) is nan writer, and nan crippled follows a disgraced American podcaster who accidentally relocates to Canada.
On nan unscripted beforehand is actual bid Exit Strategy, which explores life aft situation pinch AEW pro wrestling prima and ex-convict MVP. The slate besides includes a “gender-bending” factual-meets-lifestyle bid pinch musician and shaper Tim Hill of The Halluci Nation, and a characteristic documentary connected Southern Ontario suburban punk stone from head Caitlin Starowicz (She Walks pinch Apes).
In December, Cut & Paste released nan short documentary SNFU: A Band From Edmonton, astir Canadian punk legends SNFU, successful business pinch Trust Records, pinch nan movie premiering astatine The Punk Rock Museum successful Las Vegas. That came aft nan Bell Fund Slate Development Program, handed nan prodco improvement backing to support nan increasing slate.
Outside of his life successful music, F*cked Up frontman Abraham has built up accumulation credits connected nan likes of Vice’s The Wrestlers and MuchMusic’s The Wedge, on pinch creating podcast Turned Out a Punk, which features figures from crossed popular civilization discussing their punk roots. His set was created 25 years agone and are known for nan their eager conception albums that blend hardcore punk pinch art-rock sounds.
At Cut & Paste, he’ll squad pinch Feldberg, an International Emmy-winning shaper who served arsenic Director of Current Production, Comedy and Head of Scripted astatine Canadian pubcaster CBC. There he oversaw bid specified arsenic HBO Max drama co-pro Sort Of; Son of a Critch, which plays connected The CW successful nan U.S.; Netflix co-production Fakes; and For Heaven’s Sake, a doc bid from Mike Mildon and Jackson Rowe that had Paramount+ attached successful nan states.
“After 2 decades starring a set pinch a committedness connection for a name, and years spent moving crossed podcasting and tv chasing era-defining moments, I’ve learned that nan civilization you want to spot successful nan world doesn’t conscionable happen,” said Abraham. “Cut & Paste is an hold of that mindset – a location for stories that are raw, strange, and often overlooked, and that travel from unthinkable group we’ve encountered who spot america pinch bringing their fascinating stories to nan world.”
“We called our institution Cut & Paste because it reflects nan civilization and ethos that shaped america – making things from scratch, by hand, and seeking retired voices that hadn’t yet surgery done and were up of their time,” added Feldberg. “Personally, it connects everything from releasing records and ‘zines arsenic a teen to moving arsenic a journalist, power host, and later arsenic an executive and shaper successful TV and film. Our purpose now is to brace that imaginative thrust pinch nan infrastructure and partnerships needed to bring those stories to scale.”
