Production CompanyFilmDocumentary

Motto Pictures

Brooklyn, New York(approximate location)

MOTTO PICTURES specializes in producing and executive producing documentary features. Motto secures financing, builds distribution strategies, and creatively develops films with an eye toward maximizing the position of each project in the domestic and international markets.

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Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film · Documentary
FoundedJanuary 6, 2009NY Dept. of State
RegisteredDomestic Business Corporation
CountyKings
LocationBrooklyn, New York
Websitemottopictures.com
Emailinfo@mottopictures.com
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Phone718-923-1950
Statusactive2025 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
7.3IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

33 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Oscars0of2nominations0%
Emmys0of4nominations0%
BAFTAs0of1nominations0%

121 wins from 433 nominations across all awards

Box office
$3m

Combined US gross, 10 of 45 titles

The Fire That Took Her poster
Highest rated
The Fire That Took Her
2022
7.7641 votes
Take Your Pills: Xanax poster
Lowest rated
Take Your Pills: Xanax
2022
6.11,878 votes
Mostly
documentary, crime, comedy
Active
2009–2024
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Best known for
A Man on the Inside

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 37 of 45 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
34 seasons

2019–2024

Networks
  • Netflix1
  • HBO1
  • Showtime1

Across 3 series matched to TMDB, 25 episodes. 1 still returning or in production.

Longest runningA Man on the Inside · 2 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits24 of 46

42 films · 3 TV titles

Titles per year45 titles · busiest 2022 with 6

45 titles across 17 years, averaging 2.6 a year. The last five years hold at 2.6 a year.

Quality over time33 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
579their average 7.3200020102020

Their 2020s work is their strongest, averaging 7.4 across 13 titles. The 25 titles since 2015 average 7.4, holding at their 7.3 overall. 11 of 33 rated titles sit above their 7.3 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Roger Ross Williams5
  • Alison Klayman2
  • Nanfu Wang2
  • Greg Barker2
Writers
  • Roger Ross Williams2
Genres
  • Documentary34 of 37
  • Crime5 of 37
  • Comedy3 of 37
  • Drama3 of 37
  • Biography3 of 37

Names appearing on two or more of Motto Pictures’s produced titles, across the 37 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with12 companies

Companies that appear alongside Motto Pictures on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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