One Man's Death-Defying Attempt to Sail Alone, Nonstop Around the Americas

Janson Media today announced the release of Red Dot on the Ocean to worldwide, digital, and VOD markets. The feature-length documentary film is about one man's death-defying attempt to be the first person to sail alone and nonstop around North and South America. Matt Rutherford, once labeled an 'at-risk youth', had a childhood fraught with obstacles. Growing up in an obscure Christian cult, he struggled with learning disabilities that made life excruciating at home and at school. Matt spent more of his early teens on the streets than in school. Sitting in a jail cell at 17, he had an epiphany and began to turn his life around. Rutherford bought his first sailboat sight unseen on the Internet and learned to sail on the fly. Four years later, he embarked on a single-handed voyage from the USA to Europe, West Africa and back across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. He had found his calling. Professional sailors called him crazy and declared the journey "a suicide mission." Braving the icebergs of the Arctic and the stormy seas of Cape Horn is no easy feat for even the most experienced sailor, much less a novice.

Red Dot on the Ocean is full of surprises. It is beyond inspiring, a film that makes us all feel we can do and endure more than we imagine.

An inspiring tale, wrote Frank Scheck for the Hollywood Reporter.

Ben Kenigsberg of the New York Times said that it plays like an upbeat, real-life "All Is Lost."

To read more about Matt Rutherford's story and to learn more about the film, or to track it on the festival circuit, visit the film's official website.