Toronto-based integrated global entertainment company Boat Rocker Media and U.S. company Anonymous Content have come together to co-finance and co-sell a political thriller feature documentary from Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber.

Directed by Moss (Boys State, pictured left) and Gerber (The Notorious Mr. Bout, pictured right), the documentary was filmed over two days in Washington, D.C., according to a news release. The currently untitled project is produced by Jack Turner (Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields) and Mark DiCristofaro (Billie Eilish: The World‘s a Little Blurry) of Boat Rocker’s Matador Content, Nick Shumaker and Jessica Grimshaw for Anonymous Content,  and Moss through his Mile End Films West banner.

Executive producers include Ivan Schneeberg, David Fortier and Jay Peterson (Dear…) for Boat Rocker, Todd Lubin (Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry) for Matador Content, and Dawn Olmstead and David Levine for Anonymous Content. The Littlefield Co.’s Warren Littlefield (The Handmaid’s Tale) also serves as executive producer alongside Jon Steinberg and Dan Shotz  (Black Sails) for Quaker Moving Pictures.

The filmmakers previously collaborated on feature documentary Full Battle Rattle, which examines the U.S. Army’s Iraq simulation in the California desert. Moss, a Primetime Emmy Award- and Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning director and cinematographer, is noted for his cinema verité style. Two-time Emmy recipient Gerber has filmed, directed and written over half-a-dozen documentaries for the National Geographic Channel, according to a news release.

Moss said in a statement that the “ambitious project required a world-class team and a true leap of faith,” adding that it’s “an utterly unique story” that “expands the form of non-fiction filmmaking in exciting ways and is of enormous significance to our political future.”

Schneeberg and Fortier, co-chairmen of Boat Rocker Studios, said in a statement that the team on the project “fits perfectly within Boat Rocker‘s ambition to produce premium documentaries with the world‘s best storytellers.” 

That slate of documentaries includes a pair of films produced by Matador: Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and B.S. High, which is currently in production at HBO. There’s also Le Bal: A Modern Debutante, which is being produced by Boat Rocker‘s Maven and marks the first feature-length documentary to be fully financed by Boat Rocker, which will also distribute it.

Image courtesy of Boat Rocker