Participant Media is attracted to Submarine Entertainment not just for its brains, but also for its Braun (yes, go ahead, groan...sorry, can't resist a bad pun...)

Participant has entered into an agreement with Josh Braun's company to handle North American sales and consult on worldwide sales of its upcoming slate of documentary features. In addition, Braun will serve as a consultant to Participant on business and general strategy relating to its documentary films.

Submarine recently was responsible for securing distribution deals with Magnolia Pictures, Alliance Films and PBS’s P.O.V. for Participant and River Road Entertainment’s hit documentary, Food, Inc. which has grossed over $4 million to date at the North American box office, and the critically-acclaimed The Cove, which was recently released by Roadside Attractions with Participant handling the social action campaign. Other independent films handled by Submarine include Humpday, Valentino: The Last Emperor, Soul Power, The Mystery Team, Burma VJ and this year’s Academy Award®-winning feature documentary Man on Wire. 

Said Braun in a release, “Participant's genuine commitment to high quality and meaningful documentary films is rare and exciting to be part of. I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to continue to work with Diane and the Participant team in an ongoing arrangement that will allow us to more intimately collaborate and strategize on the documentary division's impressive upcoming slate as well as their overall goals moving forward."

Particpant's upcoming slate includes new documentaries by Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”), Lucy Walker (“Blindsight”) and Brian Hill (“Songbirds”).

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