Type | Private |
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Industry | Film Television |
Founded | 2006 |
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.
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.
Title | Release Date | Other Production Companies | Distribution | Runtime (minutes) |
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Placebo | 2006 | 28 min | ||
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest | 2011 | Rival Pictures | Sony Pictures Classics [11] | 97 min |
Mortified Nation! | 2013 | Rival Pictures | 85 min | |
Caucus | 2013 | Rival Pictures/ Bonfire Films | 104 min | |
The Starck Project | 2014 | Starck Doc/Lascaux Films/Eight 6 Eighty 6/M3 Films | 90 min | |
Space Station 76 | 2014 | Rival Pictures | Sony Pictures [5] | 93 min |
Super Dark Times | 2017 | Higher Content | 100 min | |
The Ballad of Lefty Brown | 2017 | Higher Content/ARMIAN Pictures | 111 min | |
Darkness Visible | 2017 | British Film Institute/Higher Content | POST | |
Stray Dolls | 2018 | |||
Ticket To Nashville | 2019 |
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