Dust is the first, premium multi-platform digital destination to offer thought-provoking science fiction from emerging and established filmmakers alike. Dust features the best short-form, mid-form, long-form, and other innovative content that cuts through the present to invite the future. With vivid special effects, complex characters, and captivating plots, Dust explores prescient societal themes through the lens of science and technology and how each of these are quickly altering the human condition. In short, Dust amplifies voice and visions that will shape tomorrow.
In The Lift, the protagonist uses machines for just about everything – to wake up, to listen to music, to shave, to polish his shoes, to make his food, to type his reports, to monitor stock numbers, and to get to and from work via the elevator. The elevator is his arch-nemesis. The elevator is either simply broken…or possibly possessed. But no matter how unpredictable The Lift becomes, the man seems dead set on using it.
There is almost no camera focus on the man himself; the lens is generally focused on the objects he is using to help him through his day.
Gunpowder & Sky is an award-winning independent global studio, dedicated to creating, marketing and distributing video content unrestricted by form, genre or platform. Gunpowder & Sky collaborates with both emerging and established talent to generate premium video content ranging from 90-second to 90-minute stories on all platforms. With in-house development, production, marketing and distribution capabilities, the company operates as a full 360-studio and oversees a library of over 1500 titles.
In 2017, Gunpowder & Sky released numerous films and series, including The Little Hours, starring Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Fred Armisen, Jemima Kirke and Nick Offerman which premiered to sold-out audiences in NY and LA, and nabbed the highest per screen average for its opening weekend. Gunpowder & Sky was also responsible for the Herbalife exposé documentary, Betting on Zero, which debuted as the number one documentary in the iTunes store, Ben Young’s Hounds of Love which won the Overlook Film Festival’s Jury and Audience Awards for Best Feature, and Spotify’s most viewed series Drawn & Recorded. In partnership with HBO and Blumhouse Productions, Gunpowder & Sky also released two horror films, Totem and Like, Share, Follow. Separately, the company also launched DUST, the first premium, digitally-distributed sci-fi brand showcasing thought-provoking visions of the future from both established and emerging filmmakers.
Most recently, during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival the company acquired the North American rights to Brett Haley’s (I’ll See You In My Dreams, The Hero) Hearts Beat Loud, a touching ode to the bonding powers of music, and premiered Summer of ’84, the latest thriller from award-winning directors RKSS. Simultaneously, Trevor Stevens’ directorial debut, Rock Steady Row also premiered and won narrative feature jury and audience awards at the Slamdance Film Festival.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in NY and London, Gunpowder & Sky was founded by Van Toffler, Floris Bauer and Otter Media, a joint venture of AT&T and The Chernin Group.
