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1091 PICTURES ACQUIRES NORTH AMERICAN RIGHTS TO AWARD-WINNING ACTION COMEDY “LUMPIA WITH A VENGEANCE”
The film stars former UFC champion Mark Muñoz, April Absynth, Darion Basco and Danny Trejo


New York, July 24, 2023 – 1091 Pictures, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: CSSE), today announced it has acquired North American rights to the award-winning action-comedy “Lumpia with a Vengeance” starring former UFC champion Mark Muñoz, April Absynth (Blindspotting), Katrina Dimaranan (Miss Universe Philippines Tourism 2021), Darion Basco (The Fabulous Filipino Brothers) and Danny Trejo (Machete). The Filipino American indie film gained cult status through multiple sold-out panels and screenings at Comic-Con and WonderCon and will be released digitally on October 3, 2023.


In this action comedy, the LUMPIA-armed avenger Kuya returns to Fogtown! A maid of honor to her parent’s wedding, teenager Rachel is tangled up with a crime syndicate, led by the mysterious Jemini, selling drugs masked as food. Rachel teams up with the crime fighter to prevent them from destroying her town, and her parents’ dream wedding.


Directed by Patricio Ginelsa and filmed primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area, “Lumpia with a Vengeance” is a re-telling of Ginelsa’s first-ever micro-budget feature titled Lumpia. The indie feature made its World Premiere at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature.


“Now filmgoers across the country can get their Lumpia with a Vengeance in the comfort of their own homes whenever they want,” said an excited Ginelsa, the film’s director/writer/producer. "Thank you to those who filled our seats during our theatrical run last fall and paved the way for this home release. We’re still in a bit of pleasant, geeked-out disbelief. Comic book culture influenced every single word, every single shot of our film and every single frame of our comic book. To screen at Comic-Con San Diego was a homecoming of sorts for the crew, and we hope it becomes that at every home or device we screen this fall.”


"Autumn seems to be adjoined to our film", said A.J. Calomay, the film's producer and editor. "It seems fitting to add our little bit of history during Filipino American History Month."


Alongside its companion comic book series, the visual effects-laden action comedy became the first-ever Filipino film to screen and host a panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the world’s foremost pop culture event, and has gained a cult-following amongst comic book and pop culture fans alike.


The filmmakers are proud to point out that the majority of people who worked on the film - both in front of the camera and behind it — are Filipino and Filipino American, a testament to the filmmaking talent that is within the community and a definite statement of inclusivity for Filipino-centric stories on film.
Filmgoers have certainly responded: The film has sold out every screening at film festivals from Hawaii to New York to Los Angeles.


Lev Avery-Peck negotiated the deal on behalf of 1091 and attorney Cliff Lo represented the filmmakers.
About 1091 Pictures


1091 Pictures, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Nasdaq: CSSE) company, is a modern distribution partner for independent film and series owners, offering content licensing and delivery to over 100 destinations in over 100 countries. The company represents over 500 filmmakers and distributors and has amassed over 150 award nominations, including two Academy Award® nominations, an Emmy nomination, a Grammy Award for Best Music Film, and over a dozen Spirit Awards nominations. 1091 Pictures’ diverse slate of releases include
NYT Critics’ Picks such as The Ghost of Peter Sellers and Grammy-Award Winner Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, riveting sports stories such as A Kid From Coney Island executive
produced by Kevin Durant and featuring Stephon Marbury and Red Bull’s The Dawn Wall, audience favorites such as The Last Blockbuster, groundbreaking documentaries such as Close
Encounters of The Fifth Kind and The Phenomenon, which reveal the latest intelligence on UFOs, and indie film hits such as Academy Award® Winner Taika Waititi’s What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople. For more information, please visit: 1091pictures.com


About Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Nasdaq: CSSE) provides premium content to value- conscious consumers. The company is one of the largest advertising-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) companies in the US, with three flagship AVOD streaming services: Redbox, Crackle, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. In addition, the company operates Redbox Free Live TV,
a free ad-supported streaming television service (FAST), with nearly 180 FAST channels as well as a transaction video on demand (TVOD) service, and a network of approximately 31,000
kiosks across the US for DVD rentals. To provide original and exclusive content to its viewers, the company creates, acquires, and distributes films and TV series through its Screen Media and
Chicken Soup for the Soul TV Group subsidiaries. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment is a subsidiary of Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC, which publishes the famous book series and produces super-premium pet food under the Chicken Soup for the Soul brand name


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