About Our Company
Dark Star Pictures is a new-age North American distribution company, focused on bringing unique and targeted content to audiences across the country. We are committed to releasing auteur-driven, original cinema in the theatrical, digital and home video space. Our goal is to create original marketing campaigns directly catered to audiences who will embrace our brand of thought-provoking cinema. Dark Star also services distribution companies and producers in the theatrical, digital, and festival space.
MEET THE TEAM
Michael Repsch
Michael Repsch
Michael Repsch
- PRESIDENT -
A graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Michael has distributed over 200 films to date. As the SVP of Distribution & Sales at Breaking Glass Pictures, Michael strategically managed the digital, festival and theatrical releases on all films on the domestic front. Michael launched his new
- PRESIDENT -
A graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Michael has distributed over 200 films to date. As the SVP of Distribution & Sales at Breaking Glass Pictures, Michael strategically managed the digital, festival and theatrical releases on all films on the domestic front. Michael launched his new venture Dark Star Pictures at the American Film Market in November of 2017, with the company's first commercial release in February of 2018.
Richard Ross
Michael Repsch
Michael Repsch
- DIRECTOR OF HOME VIDEO -
With over three decades of film experience, Richard has seen the full evolution of the industry. He has worked in Sales, Marketing & Acquisitions at several Independent Studios including Triboro, A-PIX/Unapix, Spartan Entertainment, Republic Pictures, TLA Releasing, and Breaking Glass Pictures, which he co-founde
- DIRECTOR OF HOME VIDEO -
With over three decades of film experience, Richard has seen the full evolution of the industry. He has worked in Sales, Marketing & Acquisitions at several Independent Studios including Triboro, A-PIX/Unapix, Spartan Entertainment, Republic Pictures, TLA Releasing, and Breaking Glass Pictures, which he co-founded in 2009. Richard maintains his unflinching passion for the future of Independent Cinema.
Madison Hoff
Madison Hoff
Madison Hoff
- DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS -
With a near decade of being a tech savvy coordinator and a social media manager, Madison blends her talents of organization, analytics, and creativity to the business side of the film industry as Director of Operations. She has the skills to research, matched with a strategist mindset, and the knack to craft well
- DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS -
With a near decade of being a tech savvy coordinator and a social media manager, Madison blends her talents of organization, analytics, and creativity to the business side of the film industry as Director of Operations. She has the skills to research, matched with a strategist mindset, and the knack to craft well produced quality campaigns all with the technical know-how to do it.
Jim Brunzell
Madison Hoff
Madison Hoff
- DIRECTOR OF FESTIVALS -
Jim Brunzell III was born in the 70's, played sports in the 80's, went to school in the 90's, and started working on film festivals in the 2000's. He graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2001 with a B.A. in English studies. In 2005, he started out as a volunteer at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Int
- DIRECTOR OF FESTIVALS -
Jim Brunzell III was born in the 70's, played sports in the 80's, went to school in the 90's, and started working on film festivals in the 2000's. He graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2001 with a B.A. in English studies. In 2005, he started out as a volunteer at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) and worked his way up to associate programmer and office manager in 2008 before leaving for the corporate world and becoming a freelance film critic writing for many outlets and publications. He joined the Minneapolis film, music, art festival Sound Unseen in 2008 as a programmer and became the festival director in 2012. During his tenure the festival has been named "One of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World '' by Moviemaker Magazine in 2016 & 2019 and "One of the 20 Great First Time Moviemakers Festival'' in 2022. He was also the Program & Artistic Director for the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) in Austin, TX from 2014-2020. In 2016 Brunzell was named by the Austin Chronicle as "One of the Top 10 Local Queer Heroes." As the chronicle said, "It says a lot when an ally makes the list, but as program director he has done a bang-up job curating the film festival and screenings for the entire LGBTQ spectrum." He has served on numerous film festival juries and panels and is a big sports nerd, especially a die-hard Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Dodgers fan. He is also the father to a 5-year old tabby cat named Bruce.