EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. rights to the 2022 SXSW award winner The Pez Outlaw, from directors Amy Bandlien Storkel and Bryan Storkel, with plans for a day-and-date release on October 21.The fish-out-of-water story follows the adventures of Steve Glew, a small-town Michigan man, who boards a plane for Eastern Europe soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
His mission is to locate a secret factory that holds the key to the most desired and valuable Pez dispensers. If he succeeds, he will pull his family out of debt and finally be able to quit his job of 25 years.
Steve becomes the hero of his own adventure, smuggling the rarest of goods into the U.S. and making millions in the process.
It was all magical, until his arch-nemesis, The Pezident, decided to destroy him.The Pez Outlaw made its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, claiming its Special Jury Prize before going on to claim the Adrienne Shelly Foundation Excellence in Filmmaking Award at the Nantucket Film Festival.
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