In just two and a half years, Ryan Zacarias and partner Brooke Bernard have produced four narrative feature films and a feature documentary, along with their colleague Brent Stewart, through their company Nomadic Independence Pictures. Their first two features, The Colonel's Bride and Septien, played festivals such as Sundance, Rotterdam, and SXSW. IFC Films purchased the distribution rights to Septien and released it to theatres in the summer of 2011. Bernard and Zacarias premiered Matt Boyd's documentary A Rubberband Is An Unlikely Instrument at the 2011 Hot Docs Film Festival. Prior to its premiere, the film was work shopped at the prestigious IFP Labs. The duo had two films in post-production, James Clauer's When The World's On Fire and Michael Tully's Ping-Pong Summer. Zacarias also produced Harmony Korine's past two short films, Umshini Wam, starring South African rap sensation, Die Antwoord, and Snowballs.
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