[DVD w/PPR available mid-June 2025 / Digital Site Licenses available now]

Premiered at The Roxy, NYC on May 19, 2025, Pusherman is the true story of Harlem dope dealer Frank Lucas and how crime and ghetto culture entered popular culture.

As told by the man himself, Pusherman is the real-life story of Frank Lucas, the Harlem dope-dealer who migrated north from a rural southern town to become a Harlem based gangster of the highest order. He could not read but he built an empire that changed the culture in Harlem and across NYC. He is, among many other things, known as the guy who smuggled pure heroin from Southeast Asia’s “Golden Triangle” into the U.S. inside the coffins of dead GI’s flown back from Vietnam.

‘If there really is a true cultural story of Frank Lucas, this is it. The inclusion of how the story became myth and a brand is profound. Congratulations! Really something to be proud of and I am personally touched to be in it.” – Mark Jacobson, the journalist who broke the story in New York Magazine.

Narrated by Mark Jacobson, who wrote the original story for New York magazine, that the hit movie, “American Gangster,” was based on, and produced by Legs McNeil, award-winning best-selling author and film documentarian, with extra commentary by Daily News and New York Magazine crime writer, Michael Daly. Pusherman will reveal the spectacular story of heroin and Vietnam and the cultural phenomena known as Blaxploitation films in the 1970’s.

“It’s those who knew Frank, the man himself, who pull back the curtain on life in Harlem in the 1970s [and] it brilliantly presents the richness of the tapestry it weaves as a snapshot of New York City culture in the 1970s.” – T. Kakadelis, The Sound View.

“Pusherman explores Lucas’ life through the lens of the lore surrounding Black gangsters”. – Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter.

The ending further explores and reveals the epidemic of police corruption in New York City during the 1970’s– all the subjects and stories the $255 million grossing film that “American Gangster” left out.

2024 / Documentary / MVD Visual / 80 Minutes / English / A film by Legs McNeil.

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“Set your controls for the heart of the South – a splendid effort. Highly Recommended.” – Mark Hudson, The Sound View.

The visionary new film The River: A Songwriter’s Stories of the South is unlike anything you’ve seen before.

Starring Nashville-based cosmic roots band Coyote Motel, it’s a music and performance movie, but it’s also a cultural history, a memoir, and a psychedelic experience. In 10 songs and stories, The River explores the lives, lore, and locales along three great rivers of the American South—the Mississippi, the Cumberland, and the Tallahatchie.

The film has already been selected for multiple festivals, and has won awards for Best Experimental Film and Best Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack recording was released on March 19, 2024 when the movie has its hometown premiere at Nashville, Tennessee’s historic Belcourt Theatre.

The crowdfunded, 68-minute feature was conceived and written by Coyote Motel bandleader Ted Drozdowski and directed by Richie Owens of Parlor Films, and is also a collaboration of more than 15 Nashville independent artists, including light art creators Darling Lucifer Productions and the aerialists of Suspended Gravity Circus.

Starting at Nashville’s Cumberland and weaving south along the Mississippi and Tallahatchie, The River introduces viewers and listeners to muleskinners, coal miners, riverboat gamblers, freedom fighters, and the late musical giants of North Mississippi blues. It also essays the omnipotent, timeless magic of the rivers themselves, and the cities and rural outposts along their endlessly flowing waters, with grace, beauty, and surprise.

THE SONGS INCLUDED IN THE PERFORMANCE ARE:

• Tupelo – 6:01
• Black Lung Fever – 4:46
• Keep Me In Your Mind – 3:17
• The River Runs Forever – 3:27
• Long Distance Runner – 7:11
• Trouble – 3:02
• Homegoing – 4:09
• Still Among the Living – 4:30
• Down in Chulahoma – 3:55
• The River – 6:16

2024 / 68 Minutes / Documentary / A film by Richie Owens

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“Nightclubbing” is the first ever documentary about the renowned New York City nightclub Max’s Kansas City (1965-1981) which had an indelible impact on the world of music, fashion, art, culture and the creation of the New York City Punk Rock scene.

From its original launch through its changes in ownership to the final scandal that forced its closure, the film additionally explores the heated rivalry that existed between Max’s and CBGB’s and how the two clubs represented different perspectives on the NYC punk phenomena.

Max’s was not just a punk scene location, it became a nightclub home for Andy Warhol, and the number of deals cut in the club’s back room reads like a bible of the who’s who of the era.

Packed with rare music clips, Nightclubbing features Alice Cooper, Jayne County, Billy Idol, Lenny Kaye, Steve Stevens, Elliott Murphy, Sylvain Sylvain, Penny Arcade, Alan Vega, H.R., Dr. Know, Harley Flanagan, Bob Gruen, Jay Jay French, Jesse Malin, Peter Crowley, Jimi LaLumia, Neon Leon, Leee Black Childers, Marty Thau, Ruby Lynn Reyner, Frank Infante, Jimmy Zero, Cynthia Ross, Peter Jordan, Donna Destri, Sonny Vincent, Mickey Leigh, Phillys Stein, Phil Caivano, Denise Mercedes, Nick Marden, John Holmstrom, Louis X. Erlanger & Steven Blush.

“4 STARS (out of 5). The scuzziness, excitement and history-making music of 70s club Max’s Kansas City thunders through Danny Garcia’s nostalgic documentary.” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“Danny Garcia’s new film is a fascinating portrait of New York’s original underground rock haven… a raw inside slice of punk nostalgia and punk history.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety

About the Filmmaker

Danny Garcia is a musicologist who specializes in the history of rock and punk. A number of other films by Garcia are also available through Soundview. They include:

• Rolling Stone: Life And Death Of Brian Jones
• Stiv: No Compromise No Regrets
• Looking For Johnny: The Legend Of Johnny Thunders
• Sad Vacation: The Last Days Of Sid And Nancy

2022 / Documentary / 85 minutes / Color & Black and White / A film by Danny Garcia

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License Options

DVD w/PPR $225.00 USD DSL 1 Year $300.00 USD DSL 3 Years $425.00 USD DSL 5 Years $550.00 USD DSL Lifetime $750.00 USD

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