BayView Entertainment

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BayView Entertainment
Company typeDistributor and producer of independent films
Industry Film
Founded2005
Headquarters Pompton Plains, New Jersey, U.S.
Key people
Peter Castro
Products Motion pictures
Subsidiaries
Website bayviewentertainment.com

BayView Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company based out of Pompton Plains, New Jersey. [1] In 2015, BayView distributed One Deadly Summer (1983) on physical media. [2] BayView produced the film Skinamarink (2023), which was acquired by Shudder. [3] In 2023, BayView took over Passion River Films after buying out most of the company's assets. [4]

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Films

2000s

Release dateTitleDirector(s)ProductionRef.
2007BadRon McLellenSouthlan Films [5]
2009Buddy Bebop Vs Living DeadJustin Cash KirkpatrickCineXperia Productions [5]

2010s

Release dateTitleDirector(s)ProductionRef.
2015 Burning Bodhi Matthew McDuffie BCD Travel [1]
2016 Trinity Skip SheaRacconti Romani
2017The Dead HalfDavid Van HooserLight Hand Productions [5]
2018 The Tag-Along: The Devil Fish David Chuang Ambassador Theatres
2019 Insanity Miska KajanusPiilo Productions [5]

2020s

Release dateTitleDirector(s)ProductionRef.
2020EntombedKjell HammerøLittle Rain Films [5]
Nothing ElseTimoth ConradTimamu Movies Production [5]
Nuns: An Italian Horror StoryGiovanni Aloisio [5]
2021ToddAaron WarrenPain Productions LLC [5]
My Dead OnesDiego FreitasParakino Filmes [5]
Winifred Meeks Jason Figgis October Eleven Pictures Ltd. [6]
2022RedDon TjernagelDonzilla, Inc. [5]
2023I am GitmoPhilippe DiazCinema Libre Studio [7]
2024The Omicron KillerJeff KniteDark Knites entertainment [7]
Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea Tony Olmos Charybdis Pictures [8]

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