Streaming service Topic to offer Lithuanian documentary The Jump as TVOD release in March

NEW YORK — First Look Entertainment’s streaming service, Topic, announced today the documentary film The Jump, chronicling the attempted defection of a Lithuanian sailor from a Soviet vessel onto a US Coast Guard ship in 1970, will be available to stream starting March 1. “It’s Thanksgiving Day, 1970. The US coast guard sets out to meet a Soviet vessel anchored just off the shore of Martha’s Vineyard. A one-day conference between the two nations has been set to discuss fishing rights in the Atlantic Ocean. While the talks are in full swing, Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka jumps across the icy...