Om Films

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Om Films
Type Private
Industry Film
Television
Founded2006
Founder Niraj Bhatia
Daniel Burks
Headquarters,
Products Motion pictures
Services Film production

Om Films is an American film production company founded by executive producer Niraj Bhatia and producer/screenwriter Daniel Burks in 2006. Om concentrates on feature films, but also produces shorts, documentaries, and web series, including the Producers Guild of America award-winning documentary Beats, Rhymes, & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest; [1] Mortified Nation!; [2] and Caucus, [3] a look into the 2012 GOP caucus in Iowa.

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Om's films have premiered at Sundance Film Festival, [4] SXSW, [5] AFI Dallas Film Festival, [6] AFI Docs (where Caucus was selected as the closing night film), [7] and have screened at many more including the Los Angeles Film Festival (where Beats won the Audience Award), [8] São Paulo International Film Festival (where Beats won Best International Documentary), [9] and MIFF. [10] Om's latest feature, Space Station 76 premiered at South by Southwest on March 8, 2014, where Sony Pictures secured all international rights. [5] Om Films, Inc. is based in Santa Monica, CA.

Filmography

TitleRelease DateOther Production CompaniesDistributionRuntime
(minutes)
Placebo 200628 min
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest 2011 Rival Pictures Sony Pictures Classics [11] 97 min
Mortified Nation! 2013Rival Pictures85 min
Caucus2013Rival Pictures/ Bonfire Films 104 min
The Starck Project 2014Starck Doc/Lascaux Films/Eight 6 Eighty 6/M3 Films90 min
Space Station 76 2014Rival PicturesSony Pictures [5] 93 min
Super Dark Times2017Higher Content100 min
The Ballad of Lefty Brown 2017Higher Content/ARMIAN Pictures111 min
Darkness Visible2017British Film Institute/Higher ContentPOST
Stray Dolls2018
Ticket To Nashville2019

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