Interview with new Australian Boutique Blu-ray Label- NEW WAVE VIDEO! Rubber's Lover, Strange Circus

do and some other stuff. Well we'll talk about one of the other exciting things coming up to but John's partner my echoes here as well. Welcome, thanks for coming.

in limbo. So I guess our main mission is to sort of rescue Asian films, particularly like I said, hard hitting genre films and sort of titles that we're big in that day but have essentially been forgotten and not because of any sort of issues with the film, just because of the rights issues or things that have happened

over the years. So our main goal is to just present some of the most you know, controversial or you know, I guess, how shall we say outstanding or and like I said, in terms of critically claimed as well films in the Asian line, and obviously we're we're focusing on Japanese right now, but sort of our goal is to get these films back out to the public in very nice special editions.

a partnership here. How is it running things behind the scenes as a couple.

really good sort of balance. But yeah, and it worked well for us because dealing with Japanese license sows is a real art form. And Make explained that the sales process Japanese is quite a.

very interesting and it is a real learning experience. But thankfully with maker has that great sort of skills for negotiation as well with the licensees and contracts, so that's really helpful. And obviously working with the filmmakers too.

the extras, and obviously you're getting it into production. So it's like it's a really really good balance we have sort of between us on that side.

So yeah, so obviously that's that's Mako that came up with the name. So yeah, we kind of got that inspiration as a newcomer.

so it's been it's been a while. So we're in Japan and we just thought, oh, maybe we can look to acquire some films, acquire some films were over here, and and so a friend of mine said, oh, you know, there's a director shows in for Kui who did ninety six four Pinocchio, and I'm a huge fan of that film and his other film, Robbers Lover. And so I said, to make a what if we approach shows in and say, hey, you know your other films not available, could we possibly

put it out? So we we thought about it, and we said, oh, I don't know what we'll see. So we went. We went to his bar. We met him, absolute gentlemen, and you know, we got along like a house on fire. And she was in He he's a massive movie fan. His bar is literally filled with movies, Like he has a wall of Blu rays and he puts a movie on every night because it's called Yeah. It's really cool.

Recently he's really embraced his films, but obviously at the time I didn't even know. I said that you shols and something Oh, and I said oh, I said, I'm a big fan of And he probably thought, who's the strange guy from Australia in my bar? And I said oh, And so yes, I did completely forgot. I didn't meet him first, and then I said to make oh, let's go. Originally I said we weren't playing to acquire it. It was just the thing. I said, let's meet shows and

he's a really nice guy. So we went the second night, Yeah, and I visited Yeah, you came with Yeah again with me. And then I may have had too many drinks that night, but I said, oh, and I said, oh, I said, because Nicey saw Pinocchio just got a blue ray thing from Media Blasters, And I said, where's Rubber's Lover? Because I because that's my favorite of his two films, Like they're both great, but Rubber's Lover it's more edgy, it's

more dark, it's more gory, it's more intense. It feels more like a Tetsu that I man, I think that's his master in my opinion, Like they're both great, and I just I just said, what's going on with that film? And he said, oh, you know, it's just you know, we've had some companies in choir, but no one's really gone through with it. And then I, like I said, maybe had too many high balls, but I said, oh,

we'll release it, We'll do it. And and and I think as we got along so well, he sort of had that trust, like he said, oh, you know, these good people like they like movies as well, and thankfully he likes to make it was helping us communicate a

bit better than I could. But that that night we were just sort of, you know, talking about movies like the whole night, like David Lynch obviously the influence of him, you know, Argento and and yeah, and then at the end of the night pretty much he said, oh look, I'll add you on Messenger Facebook, and so we added both of us and they said, we'll start the conversations about Rubber's lover. And the thing is I thought that

he owned the film, but he didn't. It was actually owned by a big company, so that leads a whole whole other story. But but yeah, that was sort of that that light bulb moment, like this will be the film. Hasn't got a blue ray, no one's released it, It's sitting in limbo. The DVD is horrendous. I hate to say it, but it was literally from it like a beta master, like it was really washed out. And so so I said, oh, yeah, this this could be the one. This could be the title. And so I said, to

make a let's really kind of persist this pursue. This is our first title, and so yeah, showsn't kind of opened the door for us on our first release.

publicly traded, massive you know corporation. Oh no. And so, because we thought it'd be an easy deal at the bar, you know, signed the contract. So and so negotiations began. And this is where maker comes into place, because dealing with Japanese companies, like I said, it's a it's a very slow process. And negotiations began in February twenty twenty four. It went for a year, and so obviously we were going back and forth, back and forth, and obviously in Japan.

It's very committee based, so they have to go back to the board, get it approval, come back to us. It's not like America, but it's like, yeah, do it, here's the contractlet's boombo boom. It's so it's very much a step by step process and so and so, after months and months of negotiations, we found it. We said, they said, yep, look what we can sign you the film. It's all good. Let us check the elements. Oh cool, And they came back they said, oh, we don't have anything.

We've got a We've got like a beta master. How's that. We said, we need the elements and we spoke the shows and he said they have to have it. Like we gave them everything they have to have. The negative they have to have. And so basically we went back and said can you please search and they said yeah, sure, and they looked at oh, yeah, we've got the negatives. Yes, great, so and so I know and then we saw okay, great,

So they're going to scan it. They're gonna do everything like no, no, no, you guys are going to do it. So and we're like, okay, so so our first film so already like because because a lot of people. They do their first film, they sign a film master's done, they give them the file. It's ready to go. But this was a real learning curve because we had to now restore a negative from scratch and so and so.

Then more months passed by, and then obviously we're dealing with insurance shipping, and then finally we get the negatives sent to us and we begin the restoration. So, look, it wasn't that first negative was.

And they certainly said, oh, here it is. We found the picture negative and they so just delayed the processing more. So there was a real learning curve, like a bunch of mishaps, but we finally got through in the end. Once again, this was a year process of negotiating, working with them, working with a contract and once again just patience, extreme patience, and we knew in the end it would be worth it because we'll get a film that obviously no one else has released, like you said on Blu Ray.

But obviously the process we have to go through, you know, is what what was required in order for us to do that. So yeah, it's a bit of a real learning curve.

label Melbourne. And so I've been friends with him for a while and so we had a phone call. So, look, you know, what would you recommend for this? He said, oh, look there's a guy in Sydney that does restoration work. Oh wow, because we were looking all the restoration work was in Melbourne basically, which means kind of like you know, you'd have to drive, you know, with a negative ten hours to get a scam and so so he said, oh, look there's a guy in Sydney. So we sussed it

out and we went round and I met Ray. And Ray does a lot of restoration work for I guess so government projects for the film archive. And I've seen this work and it's phenomenal. So like, you know, just thirty five mili film, sixteen meal film, and I said,

how do you feel doing a Japanese film? He said, oh, it's film, is film, like I'll restore it, you know, just just pret in and we took the negative Ray and Ray did a phenomenal job on the restoration compared to like I said, what looked like before He scanned the sixteen Mili in four K. Obviously we went through, we checked it. He did color grading, correction, clean up on the specs and yeah, so we're like, wow, this

is fantastic. So now we have a local guy that can do restorations and is office got this big four K scanner and it makes it easy. Now. So now when we negotiate with these film companies, we can say, hey, we can restore it for you, send us the negative and we'll do it for you. So it really helped build this relationship because, yeah, look, raise a great guy and he's he's a master at what he does. And like I said, he's he's working in more films, some

Ozzie films he's restoring right now. I saw some of the previews and they look phenomenal. So yeah, he's a master what he does.

obviously made his first film, nine six for Pinocchio. And so he does come from that sort of I guess that generation filmmakers like Super Motto, Sono, like all these sort of up and coming Mika, like that sort of generation filmmakers that were up and coming during the sort of video era. And so he obviously took that influence. And when we interviewed him, he did mention he was influenced by a lot of American films as well, like

American New Waves. So he's yeah, he's quite the visionary and I think, like you said, despite his film being so intense and extreme.

would love to hear. Obviously you're in deep with the physical media world with me. Who who is like the company that you're trying to emulate or who inspired these releases? What are you trying to be.

the labels we like obviously. Yeah, like even like like Terror Vision, Like I just love that sort of curation from a label.

sort of labels sort of really influenced myself. Yeah, just just creating a brand that you know, people can have all lined up on the shelf and to go, well, these are cool movies.

backup film. Is a launch title, and so we and I was thinking, and there's look, and we've in this weird place where there's a lot of films that were huge during the DVD era, but they never quite made the jump to blu ray and they've they've kind of been forgotten. And one of those titles was Strange Circus. And Strange Circus was a film that I I remember seeing when someone gave me a DVD copy and they said this film is pretty extreme. This is like a

pretty out there film. And I watched I was I was blown away by because it was this mystery and it's really beautifully shot, and it's well directed and the you know, obviously Sono is the master so storytelling, and his films are never boring. They just move at a rapid pace and and so yeah, so I said, oh, you know what I thought, And I was thinking a and I was going through a list. I said, you know,

a strange circause this one. I think there might be demand for this film because it's it's quite notorious and there's people, you know, there's a YouTuber called Spooky Rice that did a video and had like a half a million views. So I'm like, why is it, Like, what's

the deal with this? And so we made contact, we found the company that owned it, We made contact, and this was probably this is probably about six months ago, I'd say, or maybe no, No, it was last year, wasn't it middle I'll try to remember, maybe middle middle of last year. Maybe I think it was maybe.

so things moved a bit faster, which is great. So we had a really good call with them, and we had some negotiations and they said, yeah, look we can, we can sign you this title, and I said yes, So we obviously took the offer and we acquired Strange Circus as the next title, and and yeah, so we once once we acquired it, we thought, obviously we're looking at sort of who could get involved with the release.

And then we said, I wonder if Seon Sona would be interested in doing an interview, because look, he's a we won't go into it, but there has been some sort of controversy around on we won't we won't discuss it once again. I you know, Criterion decided to release Rosemary's Baby and have it fully approved by Polansky with his extras all over in his commentary, then you know, and if imprint the side to a Plansky box, So I'm not going to go into it because there's there's

certain things there we won't comment. So we thought, oh, look, we try and separate the art from the artist. New wave and what we're trying to do is create a package that has I guess, the best set of documentation on the film, so people know the history of it, the filmmaking and so and so. Yeah, I reached out to someone who knew Sono, which was Nicodem and Nikodem he worked with a lot of labels in Japan. He does a lot of sort of inquiring and sort of

extras film as well. I said, oh, look, when mister Sono be interested in doing an interview, and he said, oh, look, I can check because obviously Sono is a bit private right now, but I can check for you. And so so he said, look, even if we don't get so we've got the film, you know, we're going to release it, We'll get some extras done. And then Suzanne was was a big fan of the film as well. So I said,

do you want to do an essau? Yeah? Absolutely, so we can't do in the extras, And then we got the word back, hey, yes, actually Sona was interested in being involved with the whole and to us, look, I mean that's you know, it's it's huge for me personally, because you know, Sono was a massive influence to me

growing up. His films like stal Cyclic, you Love Exposure, these big sort of tempole films just kind of like epics, yeah, epics, and and yeah, he was like there's there's Mika, and there's Sono and he's he's up there, like he's one of the greats, Like you know, he's one of the great filmmakers, and so it would be an honor to have a son A film in a catalog and so we and that's how we sort of acquired the film and and yeah, and then Sono did an interview for us,

which was which was quite quite quite amazing because we didn't think we'd get the interview, but we ended up getting it. And then obviously he also approved the release too. So yeah, yeah, it's a good one. So it's a very the film. How would you describe its kind of a quite a shocking, not any kind of mystery.

of my all time favorites. Wow, So I like extremes, and so we're trying to get to the heart hitting titles and Stranger because it's definitely one of those real, you know, impact films that that you know, it'll stick with you for a while after you see it, you definitely won't forget it. So we, yeah, we want it

to get that as our second release. And by the time all the contracts and negotiation was done, Rubber's Lover was done, so kind of we pair them together kind of made sense just to release them at the same time.

not just something easy. You are You were putting something out there that took a lot of work, took a lot of balls, took a lot of just really saying, you know what we're really going for it, and that is that is a bold choice and based to what you're saying, It sounds like that's kind of the whole point of the label. Am I hearing that right? That that is kind of what you're always going to.

definitive release as possible. But yeah, absolutely, there's a lot of time and effort and and we want to make an impact of the first two titles, and like I said, we want something that you just hasn't been released you know, five times in different territories. Want to make it a really special release and that's sort of what we're going for. And even the ones in the pipeline are so far you know, first time on Blu Ray. So that's sort of our goal is to really kind of do that.

Discotech announced the They're one. We just wanted to just get ahead of the curve because obviously, like when Venegas Syndrome did the key in pretty year ago, said hey, guys, just to let you know, we're doing the keep as well, so at least it gives the buyers some options obviously, because that's why I love this is a free market, and so we we announced it a bit early just just to let people know that, Hey, you know, guys, just well I said, and don't get me wrong, I

love Discotheque. I've got all there, like a lot of their releases, that the one's really rescuing classic anime and so look, you know, all means if you're in the US definitely. But our one is is going to be a little bit different. I'll explain why. And it's interesting because the how we acquired it was the company that owns Rubbers Lover owns us I was going to pronounce it. That's the correct pronunciation, by the way, because one more time.

we own we owned the whole whole series. And I looked at Make. I said, oh, I think this is this is this, this will be this will be big personally myself, this film I saw I think I'm sure I read maybe teenage boys saw it when they were younger, but when I was in high school. A friend of mine gave me the VHS. It did come out in Australia on tape VHS, and so someone actually gave me a copy of So check out this this this cartoon.

And I think maybe I was like fourteen or fifteen, I can't remember, but I watched and I was just like blown away. I was like, wow, this is because I never seen anything quite like it. And a lot of my friends at high school like, oh that that

film's like twisted, it's you know, it's it's graphic. And obviously when it came out, people just didn't could not comprehend it when it came out because obviously this is it was made in the eighties, but it didn't get sort of wide video releases until the early nineties and even theatrical dig get theatrical release in Australia as well, which just boggles the mind and so people which is shocked by and I was blown away because it was dark, it was it was also erotic because I never seen

something in a cartoon. I was like, why is this, Why is what's going on here? This is very unusual, and I was like very intrigued by it and violent as well. So I ticked all the boxes for me as a you know, like a fourteen year old even though it was R rated obviously shouldn't been seeing it.

But uh and so yeah, that that did have an impact on me and a lot of people we speak to and know they have seen it at some point in their life, like they have they do know of it, they've heard of it, the notoriety of it, and so so I said to make I said, look, this is a big title. What we should really go after this because I think it's one of the tempole It's up there with you know, Wicked City. So that's an eighty error of animation, unfortunately does get put into the entire genre.

But the theatrical version is more it cuts a lot of that out. It's more of like a post apocalyptic sort of movie. It's a shame because the animation is is beautiful. It's it was animated by the best studios in Japan under pseudonyms, so the guys Madhouse, who did you know, Perfect Blue and that these guys worked on you Dicky dogy early on. And so if you watch the film, the animation is breathtaking. It's fast motion, it's

all hand but this is cell based. It's not no citys all hand drawing, like hundreds of animators like drawing out. So it's so it's a real work of art. And that's why when I saw it on the list, I said, oh, like this is I knew Disco Tech had they're released coming. So I said, look, let's acquire it because I personally love this film and I want to I want to make it really special. Let's go for it. And so we acquired it. But the deal was I said to the licenses, I said, look, guys, I want it, but

I need Disco Tech's master. I can't accept the video master because I think in Europe they had to release some blue rays that they were just aiop scale. They literally took the old video masters horrible, horrible, horrendous, And so I said, look, will are quite, but we need this, this new two K wrestler. We need this restoration. It's part of our deal. And they said, look what, We'll speak to Disco Tech and and they were nice enough to, you know, give it up, give up the master to us,

and so we acquired the title. So I guess where it differs. Look, we take our time with our releases, and obviously we want extras. So we have got people working on it doing you know, essays, interviews. We're doing a mini documentary as well on the controversy of as well, so that included. So we've actually got a local critic,

Ron Peterson. He saw it in the original theatrical run and he has a lot of stories to talk about how it played an anime festival and it was quite a story and he's going to tell that on camera as well. And yeah, we want to make it an incredible physical package as well. So obviously it's going to be a big box. It's going to have an art book. We've got hundreds of pages of sort of character designs and concepts and storyboards, so I really want to include

that as well. And obviously, yeah, like I mentioned earlier, it's going to be on fifty gigabyte this. We don't use twenty five gig this. We only use twenty fifty gig because we want the best compression. And even though the sequels are standard DEAF, they're huge, you know, niney gig files and they look they look good for for like video masters and so so yeah, so so basically we will be presenting those in the highest quality bit rates spread over a few discs int theyd of just

crammed on one disk. We're going to try and have the best presentation. But over all years, it's just a labor of love and it's something that we really want to make special. I mean, as you see out there, that's an original poster of the Demon over the City, got that many years ago. So yeah, it's always been a fan favorite. So when New Wave does a release, you know that it's going to be extra special. So

we're going to put in the extra extra mile. And they get at some companies they need to you know, they need to get out to retail as fast. They need to've got a pipeline, they need to work quickly. But with us, we take our time, work with the filmmakers directors. So yeah, if people are patient, and once again I'm not discouraging people from the US release, but if they, uh, you know, it's a free market. You can get the keep from via vision and get the key from a syndrome up to you and so similar

to us, you can get the film from US. They'll get it from the US and our release. I did say Region B market because yeah, this will be sort of other territories as well. So yeah, we can explain a bit more. But yeah, it's going to be like we want it to feel like the ultimate addition because this is going to be the be all, end all for the series, and we know there are fans of it, so we want to make it extra special.

this is the way to get that. You got more bonus features, you got better compression, So lots of reasons to pick up your release over Disco Tech if you're a stickler for the technical side, especially, So I mean, this sounds fantastic, I mean, and that's that's just the first three releases. All literally all three of these like obscure, hard to find, some of them shrouded and received controversy, and like so much just rich history behind these titles,

really great choices. Can we can we get anything about what's coming up in the in the future for a New Way video?

and they know their stuff. So obviously the bit rates it's very important to us, you know, may being quite technical, what's kind of importance. So yeah, so so you just want to mention that these will be properly authored. Dis A's not someone in the garage, you know, burning discs, you know, because a lot of people are like these

burn on demand. No, these are proper press This properly authored with going the extra miles, I just wanted to mention as well, but they will be well compressed as well, because it's very iportant, great in terms of what kind of titles. Yes, look, Wimill'm happy to announce number four on your show. So number four will be another Sono movie and because a lot of his films are stuck in Libo, and it will be a two thousand and five film called Nordico's Dinner Table. And and that is

a film. It's actually the Suicide Club prequel. And look, in my opinion, our opinion, we think it's it's better than Silicide Club. It's it's a real like son I had really mastered as skill as a filmmaker, and and it's it's an incredible film and one that I've been looking at a lot of groups and forums and people like where's Noriko, where's Norwiko. So we met with the licenser in Japan. We went out to dinner with them and and yeah they were lovely, really nice people.

you know, is this really happening. So it's yeah, it's kind of like you know, because because like I've always admired this filmmaking, the fact we're drinking with them at the bar, talking about us films, going into depth and details, and also getting his approval like do you want these two together? Do you want this separate? How do you want to do this? And do you approve his artwork? So so it was just kind of surreal and so and so, yeah, we struck up a good relationship with

those licenses as well. So Noriko Dinner Table is a part of that, another son of film. So we want to rescue Sono and once again art from the artists. We just want to put the films out and it's up to your choice if you want to purchase or not. You don't have to, but yeah, we want to give people the option at least make these films available and not bury them. Because yeah, because no Conner Table is Yeah, it's when I first saw it, it really had a big sort of emotional impact on me. It's it's a

very yeah, it's a very emotional film. It's it's yeah, I can't wait for people to see it. And they did send us the negative to it as well, so I've got it right here, I can show it office negative, so yes, and so this is the yeah literally just said naughtyko yeah yeah in Japanese. Yes, yeah, naughty coats down table. So so yeah, so I've got this. So these they shipped it over, we got it FedEx and it's always very nerve wracking to have a negative in

the post. So this is gone. It's it's gone essentially, that's it. And so yeah, we will be restoring this. This is the yeahs iry and people under it negative looks like this is just real one of ten. It's a long film. It's it's two and a half hours, so this is one of ten reels. So yeah, so we'll be releasing that. We'll give it the special treatment and then once again we'll give so the deluxe treatment as well. The interesting thing about Norico, it was people

wondering it was Karli Wolf Creek. It was shot digitally, but then it was transferred to film, so so because back in two thousand and five, cinemas have not quite made the jump to digitally yet and so essentially, yeah, this film was shot digitally, but then they transferred it to film. So what we're doing is restoring the negative the film negatives. It's going to get as the best possible element we could get. So yeah, we're very we're

very excited to see how it looks like. And Ray is currently restoring it right now.

So yeah, so we hope that these are big, hard hitting titles out of the gate, just to kind of show that, you know, we're here to continue and work on films that we love and give them the treatment they deserve. But look, we are exploring other options as well. There are certain films we're looking at that wouldn't suit new Wave. They're more sort of I guess, more sort of art house, like one of your We can't reveal the title. We're in negotiations for another title, but it

definitely wouldn't fit on New Wave. That movie you like, Yeah.

won't be buying this, or maybe they will. I mean, I'm sure they're open. So we're thinking like Terror Vision have their grave faceline, very similar, we might do something like that where it's more sort of indie films, sort of like a Japanese sort of I guess.

stuff like that that we would love to release. Once again, it just does not fit with New Waves, so we we are and that would be more maker, would be creating that line, the the sort of more peaceful films.

take us to barian levels. There are times that we're you know inspiring about that are you know classics as well, So we're very Yeah, I don't want to say too much, but like I said, it's just negotiations, nothing solid, but we definitely want to try and get more you know, into into sort of like the tastiest new waves, like so Japanese new wave as well, so the seventies and sixties. So yeah, that that's stuff we're looking at as well. So yeah, we definitely want to branch out a bit,

obviously from the hard hitting genre stuff. And also obviously I guess we're folks in Japanese because it's what we know, we love, you know, we've we know the culture. I've worked in Japan, same with obviously makers from Japan. So so I guess it's comfortable with right now. But we are the possibility of branching out to you know, one of our friends, you know, William, he's actually from Hong

Kong originally, he lives in Australia's he speaks Cantonese. So he's showing us the idea of what about sort of Hong Kong films. I'm like, yeah, look, I mean that's a possibility as well, because there's a lot of great Hong Kong movies. But once again, Japanese will be sort of out bread and butter. But there is possibility of Hong Kong later on, maybe as later on down the truck.

There is so much happening with all I mean I've covered on my show a couple times, how in the last year year and a half, I did an active number of boutique labels count about a year and a half ago, and around then there was about one hundred and fifty active boutique Blu Ray labels that were you know, they weren't doing like five a month, but they were doing at least one or two a year, so that

there are they're actively working towards things. And yet so many people are thinking that some of these companies are going to run out of titles, and yet there are corners of this world that have literally never had stones unturned that if you just put in the work and you get these major titles, suddenly you could be like a major player in the scene here. And that is exciting.

worth just doing a shot. We're trying, and so that's why we were going out the styles and we were getting them and we were like, oh wow, okay, so because I thought we'd definitely get knocked back on one or two of them, but it was like, oh wow, so so I guess, and once again it's just how hey present yourself. And but yeah, I think there's plenty of opportunity, plenty of films that need to be rescued

as well. Definitely kind of stuck in limbo, and so yeah, there's it's great to hear, and it's you know, it's an incredible time because there's so many and like on your obviously your page, there's always stumping it out daily and it's just like it truly is the golden age of physical media right now.

around the world. People super positive about the releases. Obviously Mako handles the social media, so has that been a bit overwhelming A lot.

a very expensive process. And then obviously we've paid for the restoration and the just costs that up and so look, we could have sort of paid for it upfront, but we thought, look, the pre orders really help. It really helps us, like get the business, get the cash flow going, so we can obviously get them in hand a lot faster,

and so so we appreciate everyone who's ordered directly. It really means a lot because obviously that support helps us to obviously get the initial releases and then and once again we're not it's a real passion project for us. We're not going to be a millionaires of this because obviously everything we make from it goes right back into restoration,

into buying new films, into the manufacturing, into artwork. So obviously all the costs that up, and so we're very happy to break even and then obviously make a bit more. But yeah, so the response has been great, So all those people who've trusted us with the pre orders, it's incredible. So we've sold about I can say now in terms of stock levels about twenty five percent, which is which is great. Look, I mean we would have been happy with ten percent. So we've had a really good response.

And once again that's just from us, and I can say on the show, I know there's a lot of people that are inquiring about, Hey, you know what about Diabolic or other retailers. Yes, so if you please be patient, we have signed with a distributor and they have all the relationships with all the sort of indie boutique sort of retailers. So hopefully you'll see our titles showing up very soon on their websites as well, so if you they're locally, you can pick it up on them as well.

But yeah, it's the support's been overwhelming and where we really appreciate it from everyone.

active on. Obviously, before we call it a day on the interview here, I got to ask you mentioned Ankorbay earlier, what's going on with the documentary because I know a lot of us are dying to see that documentary.

out and interview them and once we've got them. We're done. We're done because I did that balance, that sort of female balance, because like I said, we want to know more about you know, the women who ran the company, like that culture. But yeah, the Ancube Doctor is still coming. Danny is editing it, working on it day and night, and hopefully we'll have an update in the next month or so. But yeah, it's been a long process, but it's something that we we're very passionate about as well,

and there's been a real interest uniting in Ncubey. I know that obviously there's an Ancabay podcast that's kind of started. So yeah, we're very keen to get that documentary out there because there's some great stories. You know, We've got Bruce Campbell, William Lustig, so some really big names as well,

and so there's a passion project. And and I forget Danny credit because Danny did help me as well with getting the label our label obviously a New Way launch because he he is involved with Crawford's and he's behind all their DVD and sort of Blu ray releases. They do a lot of TV shows, so he really helped me with the logistics of you know, speak to these people they do the manufacturing blah blah blah. So I have Danny credit. It was a massive help in getting

us from to the manufacturing stage. But yeah, so we're still coming, aiming for late this year at the worst, maybe early twenty twenty six. But the first trailer should drop, so once we get those ladies interviewed, we can we can, yeah, finally get it out there. So we're we're very excited. So thank you for being patient with us. But I guess,

as is the case, documentaries do take a while. We were hoping to rush to get out a lot quicker, but yeah, just we need those those crucial interviews and hopefully next week Michael's going to go interview them, so we should be done. So yeah, it'll be coming soon. And I think even you've been asking what's going on the documentary?

I guess are extreme to a degree. So so like something like you know, we didn't want to maybe like Unearthed or something. We weren't really going for that, but I guess the titles that we're going are sort of like that. But yeah, like I said, if you just give them a go, there controversial, hard hitting, but just just wonderful, wonderful films and films of cinema.

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