The Pez Outlaw – Picture: Gravitas Ventures
Premiering on the 2022 SXSW Film Festival, the 85-minute-long documentary from Amy Bandlien Storkel and Bryan Storkel, The Pez Outlaw, can be hitting Netflix within the United States in January 2023.
The documentary facilities across the story of Steve Glew, who noticed a profitable market and exploited it in essentially the most unusual means potential.
Per Gravitas Ventures (the distributor of the film), right here’s the complete description for the doc:
“This incredible fish-out-of-water story follows the adventures of Steve Glew, a small-town Michigan man, who boards a plane for Eastern Europe soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall. His mission is to locate a secret factory that holds the key to the most desired and valuable Pez dispensers. If he succeeds, he will pull his family out of debt and finally be able to quit his job of 25 years. Steve becomes the hero of his own adventure, smuggling the rarest of goods into the U.S. and making millions in the process. It was all magical, until his arch-nemesis, the Pezident decided to destroy him.”
Amy Bandlien Storkel, Bryan Storkel, Chris Smith, Theo Love, Nate Larson, Jonathan Ignatius Green, Dawn Bender, Bo Butterworth, and Norbert Blecha produces.
Amy Bandlien Storkel and Bryan Storkel, the 2 administrators behind the doc, are additionally behind Netflix’s 2018 documentary The Legend of Cocaine Island. Bryan additionally served as a producer on QB1: Beyond the Lights.
The full doc is ready to debut on Netflix on January nineteenth, 2023.
This will mark the SVOD debut for the documentary, which has solely been obtainable on VOD companies till now. This is the primary time the documentary has been obtainable as a part of a streaming service the place you don’t must pay for the title individually.
Picture: Gravitas Ventures
Netflix will even open the 12 months with a handful of its personal upcoming documentaries carrying Netflix Original branding. January 2023 consists of Pamela: A Love Story, Bernie Madoff: The Wall Street Monster, Mumbai Mafia, The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker, and Break Point.
For the complete record of what’s coming to Netflix in January 2023, hold it locked right here on What’s on Netflix the place we’re itemizing titles not featured by some other outlet.
Will you be testing The Pez Outlaw on Netflix in January 2023?