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Welcome to Rivercoast Distribution


A few years ago industry veteran Michael Katchman had a vision.  After 25 years of executive experience, he still felt something was missing from the distribution world.  "It's too often great films never get seen just because they don't fit within a certain paradigm," Katchman says.  Since then, he has teamed up with another Hollywood veteran, Tony Ventura, and the two have made it their mission to level the playing field for indie filmmakers.  Rivercoast Distribution represents a new opportunity for filmmakers across the globe.  Years of experience and a vast network of contacts are now accessible to films that don't fit the typical generic mold.  Welcome to a new generation of distribution.  Welcome to Rivercoast.

 

This Month’s Featured Film- American Meth

 

In this even-handed exposé, former broadcast journalist Justin Hunt examines meth use throughout the Western US, traveling from Portland, OR to Roswell, N.M., and a number of blue-collar stops in between. Narrated by Val Kilmer, who played a meth-addicted musician in 2002's The Salton Sea, the director backtracks to the birth of amphetamine in the late-1800s, which leads to methamphetamine in the early-1990s, before returning to the present (as fellow New Mexico resident Kilmer notes, Adolf Hitler was a regular user). For the most part, Hunt focuses on addicts, police officers, politicians, health providers, and social workers.

 

As one man, who lost a friend to the drug, poetically laments, "It's the devil's serum, and it leads you nowhere but into hell." Kalispell Police Chief Frank Garner agrees. As he puts it, "There is nothing good to say about it, and all the bad stuff you've heard is true." He adds that meth is "worse than all the other things I've seen come before it." Hunt concludes by spending two weeks with James and Holly, a New Mexico couple battling addiction while raising four children. Funded in part by Hunt's non-profit American Meth Education Foundation and shot over 16 months, American Meth feels like the work of a first-time filmmaker. It moves quickly in the beginning, but the pace slows once James and Holly enter the picture. Still, Hunt's debut offers an eye-opening look at a serious issue. In addition, songs from the soundtrack are available on a separate CD. -

 -Kathleen C. Fennessy

 

 

 
Newsflash 6/20/09

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A note from Mike

 Michael Katchman

Hey everybody!  I will be at the American Film Market (AFM) in Santa Monica, CA from November 4th-10th.  So please try and visit me and I look forward to talking with you about your film distribution needs!!   CLICK HERE to watch Mike being interviewed on CET.  

 
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