Vision Films: surprising hits

Vision Films arrives to NEM 2026 market with a catalog of nine independent titles spanning multiple genres, including thrillers, family programming, and documentaries. The distributor’s offering features recently completed projects seeking international buyers, with a focus on both scripted features and factual content.

Within the family and animation segment, the company is highlighting the 2025 animated feature Time Hoppers, directed by Flordeliza Dayrit. The 90-minute film follows four children from an elite academy who travel to the past to stop an alchemist from erasing scientific progress. The title previously secured a limited US theatrical release across 500 screens, reporting $1 million in box office revenue. Also in the family category is Cheer Dad, an 82-minute film directed by Joyce Licorish that centers on a father who becomes the assistant coach of his daughter’s new cheerleading squad to support her transition to a new town.

The distributor’s thriller and action lineup includes several new 2026 releases. A Crime Story, directed by Asif Akbar and Brian A. Metcalf, is a 100-minute crime thriller featuring Mark Pellegrino, Jake Weber, and Jeff Fahey, about motel operators who intercept drug money and find themselves caught between a crime family, the Russian mob, and the police. Before Never, directed by Kipp Tribble and Derik Wingo, offers a thriller twist on the Peter Pan mythos, following investigators Smee and Hook as they search for Wendy Darling’s attacker. Additionally, the slate features Water Horse, a paranormal investigation thriller directed by Jennifer Van Gessel focusing on local lake disappearances, and World War Bigfoot, a 73-minute action-war film by Jason Mills that tracks an American medic who encounters an unknown creature while evading enemy forces.

In the seasonal programming space, Vision Films is distributing the romantic comedy A Hopeful Christmas. Directed by Bo Brinkman, the 81-minute film stars Kelley Jakle, Sean Faris, and Bruce Boxleitner, focusing on a woman whose quiet holiday plans are disrupted by uninvited family members, prompting her to mend her relationship with her father while navigating an unexpected romance.

The factual and documentary portion of the catalog is led by In the Company of Wolves, an 83-minute natural history project narrated by Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges and directed by Susan Kucera. The documentary explores the history of wolves as co-travelers alongside the colonization of the American West. Rounding out the factual slate is UFOs and God, a 94-minute documentary directed by Wes and Amanda Llewellyn that investigates the intersection of extraterrestrial intelligence and theology through expert interviews, scientists, and personal testimonies.

Featured Films

AGENTS

Action, Thriller – (83 Min), 2024

When a priceless artifact called “The Jade” is stolen, the agent responsible for its safekeeping must work with an operative from China to track it down. The criminal behind the theft has a small army at his disposal, moles within the force, and seemingly endless resources. With everything against him and his new partner, they will stop at nothing to retrieve “The Jade.”
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CHRISTMAS COWBOY

Romantic Comedy, Christmas – (114 Min), 2024

A savvy but overlooked real estate developer in New York is tasked with closing the deal of a lifetime with an eccentric billionaire in her small Vermont hometown. Once there, she has to compete with a ruthless rival, reconnect with her estranged family, and learn to conquer her childhood fears. She learns along the way that true Christmas magic is love, forgiveness, family, and horses.

SAVING CHRISTMAS

Family, Christmas – (103 Min), 2024

Tired of family chores, and only caring about his gifts, a teenager wishes a little too hard and accidentally makes Christmas disappear! As the only one who remembers its existence, it’s now up to him to bring the holiday back to the world. To do that, he must discover just how much the festive spirit has touched his family over the years and learn the true meaning of Christmas.

DANCE RIVALS

Family – (93 Min), 2024

When a talented young dancer moves to Los Angeles with her family, she is nervous about fitting in at a new city. As she teaches her younger sister’s dance team, she is quickly noticed and recruited by the top dance squad in the city. But tensions rise between her and the reigning dance queen, so they each assemble their own crews and settle their differences on the dance floor.

SPIRIT OF FRIENDSHIP

Family – (85 Min), 2024

A young boy, grieving the recent loss of his mother, attempts to contact her with the help of his friends. That’s when a mysterious man appears, seemingly only visible to him. His friends think he is going crazy, but stand by him anyway. It’s through the two’s discussions that the boy learns to cherish his relationships with loved ones and to navigate loss, love, and eternal connections.

ADRENALINE

Action,Crime – (75 Min), 2024

An FBI agent holidaying in Eastern Europe with her family crosses paths with a criminal wanted internationally. When she arrests him, her life is turned upside down when her young daughter is kidnapped as part of a heinous scheme. With only twelve hours, her only hope to rescue her daughter before it’s too late is to follow the fugitive into the city’s seedy underworld.

LADY OF THE LAKE

Thriller – (90 Min), 2024

The Legend of Lake Ronkonkoma: The Lady of the Lake follows Jamie, a fresh high school graduate who wishes to enjoy her last summer home, and her 18th birthday, at the lake with her friends. Overshadowed by the one-year anniversary of her brother’s drowning, her mother’s mental health issues, and unexplained supernatural occurrences that haunt the once happy Schultz family, Jamie certainly will not get the summer she was hoping or expecting

FINAL HEAT

Action, Sports – (84 Min), 2024

The married owners of a struggling functional fitness gym have the perfect plan to raise money: they’ll bring in the best athletes to compete in The Games to win the huge cash prize. As the team trains, egos clash, tempers flare, and a figure from the past threatens to destroy the team, the gym, and their lives.

H2O: THE INTELLIGENCE OF WATER

GENRE: Environment – (90 Min), 2024

Water is the source and sustenance of all life on planet earth, but her mysteries are just beginning to become known scientifically. Water may be gathering and processing information, not just in our bodies, but across the biosphere to which we humans are connected. The documentary explores these mysteries.

SERENA WILLIAMS: THE POWER AND THE GLORY

Sports – (79 Min), 2024

Serena Williams – a cultural phenomenon, a 21st century icon and the most decorated American athlete of the modern era. Agile, powerful and aggressive, she was a once-in-a-generation talent, and over the course of her exceptional career she had revitalized tennis. The Power and The Glory traces Serena’s remarkable journey. It is the story of a Compton prodigy who became the GOAT.

Vision Films

About Vision Films

Founded in 1997 and based in Marina Del Rey, CA, Vision Films is an independent global distributor of feature films, documentaries, television series, and music programming. We license all available rights to theater, DVD / Blu-Ray, television and VOD / digital media rights for the domestic and international markets. We currently manage a library of more than 500 feature films, 500 documentaries, and 100 different music shows from some of the most prolific independent film producers in the world.

We have our own DVD label and are a direct VOD aggregator with all major cable and digital TVOD, SVOD and AVOD platforms including iNDemand (Comcast, Cox, Spectrum), DirecTV, Vubiquity, Dish, FandangoNow, iTunes, Playstation , Xbox, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, Vimeo, Hoopla, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Tubi, Pluto, Peacock and more. In Canada, we are direct with Shaw, Rogers, Telus, Bell and many more!

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