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International Wrestling Syndicate, which celebrates its 25th anniversary, is set to be the subject of a new feature documentary from the Generation Iron Network.

Vlad Yudin (“Jeremy Scott: The People’s Designer”) will direct the documentary film about the Canadian wrestling promotion company as its founders prepare for their anniversary “super event.”

Iws was founded by Edward Dorozowsky (also known as SeXXXy Eddy) and Manny Eleftheriou (Crazy Manny) along with their friends. It airs on streamer Triller+.

Yudin is also a co-founder of sports publisher and producer Generation Iron, alongside Edwin Mejia Jr.

“The film will provide an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look into Iws while also chronicling the 25-year history of the independent but vastly popular promotion,” reads the synopsis. “In celebration of the milestone, the film will culminate with exclusive footage from Iwf’s wrestling death match and super-event.”

The Iws documentary is set to be released worldwide in Q...

A documentary about Eddie Hall, the strongman and “Expendables 4” actor, has been acquired for worldwide theatrical release and streaming by sports media company Generation Iron.

“Taming The Beast – The Emptiness Within” is a feature-length doc from Switzerland-based Jeridoo Universe about British strongman Hall.

“The film follows Hall, the world’s strongest man, as he learns how to embrace his mental health challenges by confronting his inner demons and dealing with his biggest failure to date, which ultimately changes his life,” reads the logline. “The film explores Hall’s struggles with depression and mental health and brings to light how famous athletes and celebrities struggle with these challenges.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone make cameos in the documentary as they offer Hall both mentorship and friendship. Actor Gabriel Luna (“The Last of Us”) and boxer Katie Luna also appear in the film.

Hall, who set a world record dead lift in 2016, lifting 500 kg,...

New York-based digital media company Generation Iron and its partner The Vladar Company have secured global distribution rights for the documentary film “Driven: The Tony Pearson Story.”

Directed by Andrew Menjivar (“Float”), the film chronicles the life and achievements of iconic bodybuilder Tony Pearson, based on his memoir. The documentary delves into Pearson’s early experiences of adversity and his subsequent rise above challenges. The narrative traces his trajectory from childhood hardships to his relocation to Los Angeles, culminating in his remarkable career in the realm of bodybuilding. Notably, the film captures Pearson’s return to the stage at the age of 63 in Las Vegas for a final competition.

Pearson’s journey began at the age of 19 when he arrived in California with a mere $75 to his name. While training at the renowned Muscle Beach, Pearson caught the attention of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who encouraged him to pursue his aspirations of becoming a champion.

Mma Fighter Song Ka Yeon will be the subject of a new documentary series, directed by Vlad Yudin.

Called the “deadly beauty," Song Ka Yeon is a rising female Mma powerhouse who made her fighting debut in the main event of Road Fc 17, defeating her opponent Emi Yamamoto by Tko in the first round. Each episode will follow Song’s personal life in the Us, her training routine, and showcase her preparation and the challenges that lead up to her highly anticipated summer fight.

The film will be directed by Yudin and produced by Yudin with Edwin Mejia of The...

New York-based The Vladar Company has been talking with buyers on a trio of new titles led by mixed martial arts documentary The Hurt Business.

Ksm has acquired German rights to the film, which will chronicle the lives of indomitable Ufc Women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey [pictured], Ufc Light-Heavyweight Champion Jon ‘Bones’ Jones and former Ufc light-heavyweight champion Rashad ‘Suga’ Evans.

Vladar co-founder Vlad Yudin, whose credits include Generation Iron, will direct and serve as executive producer alongside co-founder Edwin Mejia and Jim Czarnecki.

Madman has picked up Australian and New Zealand rights to this as well as to the fashion designer documentary Jeremy Scott: The People’s Designer.

Mixed martial arts megastars Ronda Rousey and Jon “Bones” Jones are among a number of the sports big names getting in the ring for The Hurt Business, a documentary from the team behind the 2013 bodybuilding docu Generation Iron. With Hurt Business, writer-director Vlad Yudin and producing partner Edwin Mejia of the Vladar Company will go beyond the octagon for a closer look at the world of Mma. The film follows the daily lives of Ufc light-heavyweight champion…...

A lyrical portrait of a rural Southern California family’s inner lives, their relationship to their ever-shifting landscape, and their growing alienation with each other, "Medeas" is the acclaimed debut feature of Italian-born filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro. Offering a contemporary variation from the pov of an Italian art filmmaker, on the time-honored tradition of the Greek tragedy, ‘Medea’, Pallaoro’s film stars the remarkable Catalina Sandino Moreno, a Best Actress Oscar nominee for "Maria Full of Grace," and Brían F. O'Byrne ("Million Dollar Baby," "Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead") a Tony Award winner for the Broadway drama Frozen.

The film tells the story of a hard-working Southern California dairy farmer (O’Byrne) struggling to maintain control of his family and his younger, hearing-impaired Latina wife (Moreno) whose interest in her husband and family is beginning to wane, "Medeas" investigates the all-too-human state of alienation and its relationship to the equally human desire for intimacy. It’s an outstanding debut feature for writer/director Pallaoro, whose earlier short film " Wunderkammer" won six international awards and was selected in the official competitions of over fifty film festivals around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival.

Largely based on real events taken from newspapers and court trials, "Medeas" features a ravishing visual style and a contemplative narrative approach that’s immediately reminiscent of the works of Terrence Malick and Michelangelo Antonioni. But Pallaoro’s first film is all his own—an undeniably passionate, personal work meticulously crafted with primal beauty and punctuated with sensational performances by its two leading players.

Following its acclaimed rollout to film festivals around the world, The Vladar Company is excited to presents the limited theatrical engagement of "Medeas" at the Village East theater in New York City beginning December 19th.

The winner of the New Voices/ New Visions Grand Jury Prize at the Palm Springs International Film Festival 2013 for "Medeas", filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro also won the award for Best Director at the Marrakech International Film Festival and the Parajanov Prize for Best Visuals and Aesthetics at the Tbilisi International Film Festival. Additionally, Pallaoro won the UK-Italy Creative Industries Award for Best Innovative Budget at the Venice Film Festival. And for her starring role in "Medeas", Catalina Sandino Moreno won Best Actress in the New Director’s Competition at the Nashville Film Festival.

More information on "Medeas" can be found on at the film’s website at http://www.medeasthefilm.com

Synopsis:

"Medeas" is an intimate portrait of a rural family’s inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape. Ennis, a stern, Hard-working dairy farmer struggles to maintain control of his family and surrounding environment, while his wife, Christina, retreats into herself, progressively disconnecting from him an their five children. As tensions increase, each character must confront their yearnings and anxieties, culminating in a dangerous conflict between control and freedom, intimacy and alienation. A journey into the unpredictable boundaries of human behavior, "Medeas" explores the desperate lengths people are driven to by love and self-preservation.

About The Vladar Company:

The Vladar Company is a media and entertainment company, led by Vlad Yudin and Edwin Mejia. Since its inception in 2008, the company has catered to the market’s growing need for entertainment content across multiple platforms. The company focuses on developing, financing and packaging a library of intellectual properties with its producing partners at leading Hollywood and International production studios. The company is becoming a leading producer of many genres and multiple mediums in U.S. and international markets.

Vladar will continue to develop, finance and release projects in different formats as well as create and build brands with partners and investors around the world. Vladar will also focus on creating and developing new distribution models and contribute to the success of independent film and TV production. Its sales and operations will expand nationally and internationally.

Starting today, The Vladar Company - an independent motion picture and entertainment studio - opens the critically acclaimed feature documentary "Death Metal Angola," from director Jeremy Xido ("The Machinist"), produced by Joseph Castelo ("The War Within"), with Vlad Yudin and Edwin Mejia exec producing. The film is now in a limited theatrical release in New York & Los Angeles, and will be available on iTunes on November 21. The film first caught our attention when it screened at Doc NYC - New York’s premier documentary festival - in 2013. The short version of the story, goes... Following nearly 40 years of unrelenting war,...

The Vladar Company - an independent motion picture and entertainment studio - has acquired (from production companies Coalition Films and Cabula6) release rights to the critically acclaimed feature documentary "Death Metal Angola," from director Jeremy Xido ("The Machinist"), produced by Joseph Castelo ("The War Within"), with Vlad Yudin and Edwin Mejia exec producing. The company will release the film in a limited theatrical release on November 7, 2014, in New York & Los Angeles. The film first caught our attention when it screened at Doc NYC - New York’s premier documentary festival - in 2013. The short version of the...

The Vladar Company has announced that it will produce the Mr. Olympia competition for American Media Inc. and NBC Sports Group, with principals Edwin Mejia and Vlad Yudin. The international bodybuilding competition will take place in Las Vegas from September 18-21, and will be broadcast in two 90 minute specials in October. Yudin will direct the production. Also read: NBC Sports Network Launching ‘Nbcsn Sunday Sports Report’ Hosted by Liam McHugh Mr. Olympia is held annually by the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (Ifbb) and is the largest fitness competition and bodybuilding expo in the United States. But it has not been broadcast on television since.

Exclusive: Hot on the heels of Afm sales for Generation Iron, New York-based The Vladar Company has lined up its slate for the coming year.

The French Executioner based on the Cc Humphreys novel is one of two feature projects that co-founder Edwin Mejia has put on the fast track.

The story centres on a skilled swordsman brought to England to execute Anne Boleyn who vows to the condemned woman that he will bury her six-fingered hand at a sacred crossroads. Mark Huffam will produce.

Head Smash is an adaptation of Vlad Yudin’s graphic novel that takes place in a lawless future where a young warrior becomes a pawn in a crime lord’s game.

Generation Iron has grossed more than $780,000 in the Us through The Vladar Company and follows three bodybuilding hopefuls as they bid for the tile of Mr Olympia.

Ksm Film will release in Germany, Madman in Australia and New Zealand, Probiotica in Brazil...

Exclusive: New York-based The Vladar Company has closed a trio of high-profile deals at Afm on the documentary.

Ksm Film has acquired all rights for Germany and Madman Entertainment all rights for Australia and New Zealand.

Probiotica has picked up theatrical rights for Brazil. Generation Iron producer Edwin Mejia of Vladar Prods is in talks with other key territories.

Generation Iron has grossed more than $780,000 in the Us through The Vladar Company and follows three bodybuilding hopefuls as they bid for the tile of Mr Olympia.n...

In today's Indie Beat, we get the trailer and information on the upcoming documentary Generation Iron. It's a remake of the original documentary Pumping Iron, which put bodybuilding on the map and helped launch Arnold Schwarzenegger's career. This revamped documentary shows how the bodybuilding landscape has changed in the world today. Come inside to learn more about it and watch the trailer.

Here at Cinelinx we like to talk about all aspects of filmmaking and movie news. To that end, we have Indie Beat where we highlight some of the latest news, trailers, and PR releases from the indie filmmaker scene. So if you're an independent filmmaker and want some coverage on our site, be sure to drop us a line at jordan@cinelinx.com .

Catch bodybuilding’s marquee names in the remake of the 1977 Schwarzenegger documentary Pumping Iron; the critically acclaimed feature that put bodybuilding on the map and catapulted Arnold Schwarzenegger/Mr.

A documentary project we first alerted you to last fall, which features Michael Jai White, and other notables, is complete, and now has an official release date set for September 20th, 2013, likely in limited circulation.  It's titled Generation Iron, and is something of a sequel to Pumping Iron, the 1977 film about the world of bodybuilding, focusing on the 1975 Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia competitions, which was maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger's introduction to the world, or at least, the USA. Generation Iron is directed by Vlad Yudin, and is produced by the same folks who brought us Pumping Iron - Jerome Gary, Edwin Mejia, Robin Chang, Eric...

Mickey Rourke will be the voice of a body building documentary titled Generation Iron, for the Vladar Co. The doc is scheduled for release in September.

The film follows the world’s top seven bodybuilders as they compete to bring home the coveted “Mr. Olympia” title. Vlad Yudin is directing and co-producing the film with partner Edwin Mejia for Vladar Co., and in partnership with American Media Inc.

Jerome Gary, who produced the 1977 docudrama Pumping Iron, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno, is exec producing alongside Ami’s David J. Pecker.

According to THR, this film “explores the widely misunderstood world of bodybuilding.”

Yudin wanted to make a film about body building because he felt there hadn’t been an in-depth account of the sport in a long time.

“There hasn’t been a film dedicated to an in-depth and honest look at the sport of bodybuilding since Pumping Iron,...

As the New York Comic Convention started this Thursday, I was able to get a interview with Vlad Yudin, a Russian filmmaker and producer, who is making Head Smash, a film based on a comic book that Vlad Yudin created himself.

Edwin Mejia, who is producing the film with Vlad Yudin, stated that, “We are basically working on this great visionary piece that Vlad Yudin created with Arcana Comics. Arcana Comics is behind great iconic comics and novels-and Sean O’Rielly is one of the producers on the project as well. Vlad is actually the creator and we’ve been putting this project together for over a year now, and we’re really excited to actually have a first edition feature here today here at Comic-con. So we’re really really excited. .. . Right now, we’ve been putting together the script and making the process with the studios to figure...

Vlad Yudin and Edwin Mejia are set to produce a film version of the sci-fi thriller graphic novel "Head Smash" says Variety.

Erik Hendrix penned the comic which is set in the city of Ares and centers on an orphan named Smash who finds a safe haven with a brutal syndicate. Yudin ("Last Day of Summer ") will pen the film adaptation

Meanwhile, Disney Pictures has won a bidding war for a Christmas-themed action-comedy pitch from writer Scott says Heat Vision. The storyline is being kept under wraps, while John Jacobs is producing.