levelFilm

2013–Present
Location
Description

Based in Toronto, Canada, levelFILM is the entertainment distribution company behind feature films such as Les Misérables, The Peanut Butter Falcon, The Assistant, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and Hearts Beat Loud. levelFILM is a full-service distributor, launching films into the Canadian marketplace and abroad. Founded in 2013, levelFILM specializes in acquiring, developing, marketing and selling quality independent films. Between a growing catalogue of high-quality films and a number of projects in development, levelFILM’s goal is to create balance both on-screen and off. The company maintains a diversified slate of films across all genres that are both highly marketable and captivatingly original, while leveraging both traditional and digital distribution strategies that are as innovative as the films they support. For talented creators here in Canada and across the world, levelFILM is the platform for emerging voices. We work with everyone from first time filmmakers to industry titans and every type of team in between. We are always searching for those who enchant us, delight us, affect us, thrill us, disturb us, amaze us and make us excited about what is on the horizon for film and media. We work closely with our partners to amplify these voices as far and wide as we can. With our team’s tight mosaic of varied backgrounds and wealth of experience, we tailor each and every release meticulously for the project, partner and landscape.

levelFILM. “Who We Are - levelFILM,” May 2, 2023. https://level.film/about/.
Works in catalogue
  • In the foreground, a face is out of focus. Peeking around behind them is Ellis, a Black person with a buzzcut and wearing a military green camo top.

    The Inspection

    film/video, 2022

    In Elegance Bratton’s deeply moving film inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense of belonging that will shape his identity and forever change his life.

  • Three adolescents stand at the bottom of a cliff, their arms wrapped around each other, their heads tipped up towards the darkening skies, and their mouths open, perhaps singing or screaming.

    Soft

    film/video, 2022

    Three adolescent queer friends become enraptured in the Toronto nightlife scene over a formative summer break before a missing person pulls them back to the reality they had chosen to leave behind.