“A triumph...[A MUSE is] the sort of movie that made me want to write about and make movies 30 years ago” - Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com

“[A MUSE] is an original and strong piece of work, and made with true integrity, and sensitivity...I was very moved by it.” - Ira Sachs (director, Passages)

Broken Nest is a new production company from Jimmy Bontatibus — the director of multiple independently made feature films to date including A Muse. Originally from Seattle, Bontatibus studied at Béla Tarr’s film.factory program in Sarajevo before embarking on writing, producing, and directing three features from 2015 onwards; the films shot between Sarajevo, Hamburg, Bucharest, and New York City.

Bontatibus has reshaped his prior production company Go Boating Films into Broken Nest — a company that will produce independent films of ambitious scope and subject material with a focus on international stories and audiences. Due to disparate financing systems and structures, there is little precedent for co-productions or crossovers between American independent film culture and the international filmmaking community — and this is something Broken Nest looks to change. 

Broken Nest’s first feature film, Transmission, is being produced by Bontatibus in collaboration with Levan Lomjaria, a fellow alumni of film.factory who recently spent eight years as the Head of Film Export at the Georgian National Film Center (GNFC) in Tbilisi and was a member of the Eurimages funding jury in 2019.

The company takes its name from Rabindranath Tagore’s source novel for the 1964 film Charulata, directed by Satyajit Ray.