New Artists Alliance

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New Artists Alliance
Industry Film
Founded2007 (2007) in Los Angeles, California, US
Founders Gabriel Cowan
John Suits
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
,
US
Key people
Gabriel Cowan (CEO)
Services Film production
Website naafilms.com

New Artists Alliance is an American independent film production company. It was founded in 2007 by Gabriel Cowan and John Suits, who met at film school. It focuses primarily on genre films. [1] In order keep costs down, New Artists Alliance share profits with cast and crew, [2] and they request more recognizable actors work for scale. [3] In 2014, they signed a deal with XLrator Media to co-produce three pictures. [4]

Contents

Filmography

YearTitleRef
2008 Breathing Room [1]
Flower in the Gun Barrel
2009Family of Four
2010 Growth
2012 Extracted
Static
2013 Cheap Thrills
Bad Milo! [5]
2014 3 Nights in the Desert
The Scribbler [4]
Just Before I Go
2015 400 Days
2016 Pandemic
The Turn

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