FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michelle Berninger (212) 243-0600 x 27 michelle@firstrunfeatures.com   FIRST RUN FEATURES ACQUIRES USA RIGHTS TO JAMES CRUMP'S TROUBLEMAKERS: THE STORY OF LAND ART   Definitive doc on history of land art features work of Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria, Nancy Holt, Dennis Oppenheim, Willoughby Sharp   Film will open in theaters at the end of the year   Films We Like has acquired all Canadian rights   June 30, 2015 - New York City. Submarine Entertainment announced today that it has sold all USA rights minus US TV to James Crump's TROUBLEMAKERS: THE STORY OF LAND ART to First Run Features and has sold all Canadian rights to Films We Like. The deal was negotiated by David Koh of Submarine and Lisa A. Callif of Donaldson + Callif LLP on behalf of the filmmaker & producers along with Marc Mauceri & Seymour Wishman of First Run Features; and Ron Mann of Films We Like Canada. The film will open in theaters later this year with an Academy qualifying run followed by a DVD/VOD/Digital release on the First Run Features label. Films We Like in Canada will release simultaneously with the USA Theatrical release Troublemakers is a Summitridge Pictures and RSJC LLC Production. Directed, Written & Produced by James Crump. Executive Produced by Ronnie Sassoon. Produced by Farley Ziegler and Michel Comte. Edited by Nick Tamburri. Cinematography by Alex Themistocleous and Robert O'Haire. Sound Design by Gary Gegan and Rick Ash. Troublemakers unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. The film features a cadre of renegade New York artists that sought to transcend the limitations of painting and sculpture by producing earthworks on a monumental scale in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest. Today these works remain impressive not only for the sheer audacity of their makers but also for their out-sized ambitions to break free from traditional norms. The film casts these artists in a heroic light, which is exactly how they saw themselves. Iconoclasts who changed the landscape of art forever, these revolutionary, antagonistic creatives risked their careers on radical artistic change and experimentation, and took on the establishment to produce art on their own terms. The film includes rare footage and interviews which unveil the enigmatic lives and careers of storied artists Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty), Walter De Maria (The Lightning Field) and Michael Heizer (Double Negative); a headstrong troika that established the genre. As the film makes clear, in making works that can never be possessed as an object in a gallery, these troublemakers stand in marked contrast to the hyper-speculative contemporary art world of today. Troublemakers features Germano Celant, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Vito Acconci, Virginia Dwan, Charles Ross, Paula Cooper, Willoughby Sharp, Pamela Sharp, Lawrence Weiner, Nancy Holt, Carl Andre, Gianfranco Gorgoni, and Harald Szeemann. James Crump stated, "We are elated to be working with First Run Features on the North American release of Troublemakers. Given First Run Features' long track record of success and total commitment to independent film, we feel this is certain to be a winning collaboration." Marc Mauceri and Seymour Wishman of First Run Features stated, "Troublemakers delivers a thrillingly cinematic, in-depth look at this most spectacular art form and the artists behind it. All of us at First Run are tremendously excited to be working with James on the American release of his film."   About First Run Features: Founded in 1979, First Run Features is one of America's notable distributors of documentary films. Recent releases include Michael Apted's 56 Up, Jillian Schlesinger's Maidentrip, Thomas Allen Harris's Through a Lens Darkly, Doug Pray's Levitated Mass, DA Pennebaker's and Chris Hegedus's Kings of Pastry, and Judith Ehrlich's and Rick Goldsmith's Academy Award-nominated The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.   About Submarine Entertainment: Submarine is a sales, distribution, and production company based in NYC. Recent titles include Academy winning Citizenfour, Record Man: Story of Henry Stone & TK Records, Troublemakers: the Story of Land Art, Chris Burden: Double Bind, Academy nominated Finding Vivian Maier, Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner The Wolfpack, Sundance Audience Award Winner Meru, Yayoi Kusama: a Life in Polka Dots, 3-1/2 Minutes, Sneakerheadz, Best of Enemies, The Overnight, City of Gold, Batkid Returns, Tangerine, Being Evel, How to Change the World, Nas: Time is Illmatic, Dior & I, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Blackfish, Keep on Keeping On, Academy Award Winning 20 Feet From Stardom, Academy Award winning Searching for Sugarman, Academy Award winning Man on Wire, among others. Submarine recently launched a theatrical & dvd imprint, Submarine Deluxe; a low budget genre label, Torpedo Pictures; a German distribution imprint with NFP Films called NFP Submarine Doks; and Submarine 360, a museum distribution imprint. Submarine principals also represent comic book libraries Creepy and Eerie which are being developed across all platforms   About James Crump: James Crump made his directorial debut at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival with Black White + Gray, featuring the influential and legendary curator and art collector Sam Wagstaff and artist Robert Mapplethorpe. The film began airing on the Sundance Channel in March 2008. In 2013, Black White + Gray was named among Blouin ArtInfo's 20 Must-Watch Artist Documentaries. A curator and art historian, Crump is also the author or co-author of numerous books and has published widely in the fields of modern and contemporary art. Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art is his second feature documentary.   Photograph © Gianfranco Gorgoni, 2014 Michael Heizer Circular Surface Planar Displacement Drawing El Mirage Dry Lake, 1969