Checkmate! Good Deed Entertainment Corners Chess Documentary ‘Grandmasters’ From Director Liza Mandelup
EXCLUSIVE: Good Deed Entertainment has acquired Grandmasters, a documentary from award-winning filmmaker Liza Mandelup that uncovers drama roiling the world of top-tier chess. Grandmasters premiered a
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Deadline reports that Good Deed Entertainment has acquired Grandmasters, a documentary from filmmaker Liza Mandelup that examines tensions within elite competitive chess. The project, which premiered as a series at Tribeca Festival in June, will reach theaters as a three-chapter nonfiction feature with a planned nationwide release. The film joins a growing catalog of documentaries finding theatrical audiences through independent distributors willing to bet on niche cultural subjects.
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