Tribeca distributes Shup Up Little Man!
Tribeca Films has picked up the US rights to distribute Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, directed by Matthew Bate and produced by Bate and Sophie Hyde.
Tribeca Film will release the film via VOD as of August 25 and theatrically on September 9 2011 after the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival this year.
Said Matthew Bates, an Adelaide native, “We are delighted to be releasing the film with Tribeca Film,” said director Matthew Bate. “It’s a great underground American story and we are particularly thrilled to see it in the hands of people who will love and nurture its life in cinemas and on the small screen.”
Shut Up Little Man! is the story and recordings of two ’90s San Fransisco punks who move next door to a flamboyant gay man named Peter Haskett and a homophobe Raymond Huffman. The punks, Eddie and Mitch, record the two opposing flatmates’ fights and distribute them via cassette which spread across America and became a cultural phenomena with comics by Dan Clowes (Ghostworld), music by Devo as well as CDs and stage plays.
Shut Up Little Man! is the first film to be released from the South Australian Film Corporation’s FILMLAB program.
Matthew Bate screened his most recent short documentary Stunt Love at Dungog Film Festival.
