Factory 25 Acquires Worldwide Rights to ‘Sinner Supper Club’

By Tom Whitfield

Factory 25, a Brooklyn-based independent film distribution company, has acquired worldwide rights to Daisy Rosato and Nora Kaye’s first feature film, “Sinner Supper Club,” at the film’s New York premiere at NewFest. The company plans a spring 2027 theatrical release, followed by digital and Blu-ray editions. The acquisition announcement provides no deal terms, release cities or firm dates.

Factory 25’s announcement calls the film a “gay mumblegore ghost story” and says friends reunite to throw a “wake” for Genevieve, who has been priced out of New York City. A heatwave traps them together, their long-ignored problems boil over, and then their dead friend shows up. The announcement does not explain the ghost’s motives or rules.

The release notes list the cast:

• Elise Kibler
• Ashil Lee
• Genevieve Simon
• Jayae Riley Jr.
• Sophie Sagan-Gutherz
• Nora Kaye
• Daisy Rosato

Kaye and Rosato directed and appear in the film. They also wrote the screenplay, and Rosato served as cinematographer. That combination gives the first feature shared authorship across directing, performance, writing and cinematography, although the announcement names no other crew members and documents no wider production process.

According to Factory 25, “Sinner Supper Club” was shot in six days on an iPhone through improvisation. Rosato and Kaye wrote a manifesto as part of production, exploring what it means to make a film in the 2020s. The film’s characters represent the queer and transgender and gender nonconforming community.

Factory 25 also identifies the film as an homage to the scrappy, experimental filmmaking that characterized the mumblegore and Dogme 95 movements. Those labels establish a lineage, not a production standard. The announcement gives no budget, post-production plan or account of how improvisation affected the finished cut.

The company included a trailer but offered no audience figures, reviews, awards or box-office projection from the premiere. The festival’s history is not a substitute for reception data about this film.

Factory 25 traces NewFest’s history to 1988, when it was founded in response to the AIDS crisis. The New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival has been a tentpole of New York City’s queer cultural scene and later expanded into a film and media organization with year-long programs serving all facets of the LGBTQ+ community.

That history gives the premiere a specific cultural setting. It does not establish how many people attended, how the screening was received or whether it led to other festival offers.

Factory 25’s released catalogue includes:

• “Funny Ha Ha”
• “Ham on Rye”
• “Happer’s Comet”
• “Actual People”
• “This Closeness”
• “Family Portrait”
• “Queens of the Qing Dynasty”

The list places “Sinner Supper Club” within a catalogue of independent features. The announcement does not provide sales figures, audience targets or a release strategy.

What does the worldwide acquisition change for audiences?

For now, it changes distribution rather than production. Factory 25 plans a spring 2027 theatrical release and a later digital and Blu-ray release. The company has not named venues, release cities or countries, dates beyond the spring window, pricing or a home-release schedule. Nor does it say whether the NewFest premiere will tour or whether the film will play other festivals.

Worldwide rights also do not by themselves prove reach. They establish Factory 25 as the rights holder named in the announcement. Without release specifics, the promise remains broad in territory and thin on detail.

The practical answer is access: the film has a distributor, not just a premiere. How much access that creates will depend on the venues, dates and terms still missing from the announcement.

The next test is whether Factory 25 can turn the spring 2027 window into named cinemas and a dated digital and Blu-ray rollout; until then, the deal remains a concrete rights acquisition attached to a stated release plan, not proof of a broad release.