The Department of Motion Pictures is a filmmaker-driven fiction and non-fiction production company with a focus on ambitious, inventive, and emotionally resonant storytelling across features and series.
Over the years, the DMP has produced Beasts of the Southern Wild, Patti Cake$, Monsters & Men, Wendy, Farewell Amor, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, Gasoline Rainbow, and a season of High Maintenance, as well as non-fiction work like Western, 32 Sounds, A Thousand Thoughts, the documentary series Philly D.A. and the podcast Operator.
The DMP has premiered over a dozen films at the Sundance Film Festival in the last 12 years, with work distributed by A24, Searchlight Pictures, Neon, HBO, and Paramount, among many others. The company’s projects have won many of the film industry’s most prestigious accolades, including a Peabody Award, six Sundance awards and four awards at Cannes, as well as nominations for the Oscars, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the Gothams.
The Department of Motion Pictures is based in Brooklyn, NY, and New Orleans, LA.