SnagFilms has acquired exclusive digital rights to a number of new films, including "We Made This Movie," directed by "Late Show With David Letterman" executive producer Rob Burnett; drama "Faces in the Mirror," directed by Boyd Tinsley of Dave Matthews Band; and "Black Tulip," Afghanistan’s official entry for the 2011 Academy Awards. The slate also includes Joe Berlinger's 2012 Sundance Film Festival documentary "Under African Skies," which features Paul Simon. SnagFilms’ rights vary with each title and the company is in the process of determining release windows that will begin this summer and fall. This announcement follows SnagFilms’ recent acquisition of 27 titles during the Sundance Film Festival in January, including previous Sundance Festival winners "Kinyarwanda," "We Live in Public," "Manda Bala" and Academy Award nominees "Enron: The Smartest Guys...
- 3/12/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Sundance Channel has acquired Peter Bogdanovich's four-hour documentary Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers along with 20 films that made their debuts at January's Sundance Film Festival.
Dream, which is set to have its world premiere Oct. 14 at the New York Film Festival, will debut on Sundance at 7 p.m. Oct. 29. It examines three decades in the history of the Grammy-winning rock band, featuring interviews as well as archival and concert footage. The docu also follows Petty's solo career and his time with the Traveling Wilburys.
"This deeply rich portrait of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers by film legend Peter Bogdanovich is a perfect fit for Sundance Channel viewers, who are devoted fans of cinema and music," said Laura Michalchyshyn, executive vp and GM, programming and creative affairs.
In addition, Sundance has acquired rights to 20 films out of the Sundance fest, including features, docus and shorts. The titles include the features Four Sheets to the Wind, The Legacy, Noise and Red Road and the docus Autism Every Day, Manda Bala and Manufactured Landscapes.
The acquisition continues the channel's annual practice of scouting the festival for new titles, which resulted in the acquisition of 12 films from the 2005 festival and 32 from last year's.
Dream, which is set to have its world premiere Oct. 14 at the New York Film Festival, will debut on Sundance at 7 p.m. Oct. 29. It examines three decades in the history of the Grammy-winning rock band, featuring interviews as well as archival and concert footage. The docu also follows Petty's solo career and his time with the Traveling Wilburys.
"This deeply rich portrait of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers by film legend Peter Bogdanovich is a perfect fit for Sundance Channel viewers, who are devoted fans of cinema and music," said Laura Michalchyshyn, executive vp and GM, programming and creative affairs.
In addition, Sundance has acquired rights to 20 films out of the Sundance fest, including features, docus and shorts. The titles include the features Four Sheets to the Wind, The Legacy, Noise and Red Road and the docus Autism Every Day, Manda Bala and Manufactured Landscapes.
The acquisition continues the channel's annual practice of scouting the festival for new titles, which resulted in the acquisition of 12 films from the 2005 festival and 32 from last year's.
- 9/14/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
City Lights Pictures has acquired domestic distribution rights to the Brazilian film The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, directed by Cao Hamburger. The film follows a young middle-class boy born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, both left-wing militants who are forced to go underground by a military dictatorship, who is left with his grandfather. It is the second Brazilian film that City Lights has acquired since announcing its rollout of Sundance Grand Jury Prize documentary winner Manda Bala, which will play in Los Angeles, New York and other markets in August.
- 7/16/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Danny Fisher, CEO of New York-based City Lights Pictures, a division of City Lights Media Group, said Friday that the company has acquired North American distribution rights to 2007 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner Manda Bala (Send a Bullet). Simultaneously, Celsius picked up foreign distribution rights, and the Sundance Channel took domestic broadcast rights, he added. Manda Bala -- from first-time director Jason Kohn, who produced with Jared Ian Goldman and Joey Frank -- will be released theatrically by City Lights Pictures in the summer. City Lights Home Entertainment will handle home video through its DVD and digital distribution deal with WEA Corp., Warner Music Group's U.S. sales and retail marketing company. Cinetic Media repped the filmmakers in the deal.
- 5/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARK CITY -- The Sundance Film Festival grand jury honored Christopher Zalla's illegal immigration drama Padre Nuestro and Jason Kohn's Brazilian corruption documentary Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) with its top prizes Saturday night.
Some features seemed to justify their high sales prices with popular appeal. James C. Strouse's family drama Grace Is Gone took home the Audience Award: Dramatic, while David Sington's Apollo program chronicle In The Shadow Of The Moon won the World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary. They sold for $4 million to Weinstein Co. for worldwide rights and $2.5 million to $3 million to ThinkFilm for North American rights (excluding TV), respectively. Sington noted onstage that Saturday was the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 1 incident that killed three astronauts.
Two films won two awards each. Grace is Gone landed 29-year-old writer Strouse the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, and Heloisa Passos was honored for documentary excellence in cinematography for Manda Bala.
"I've been a nervous wreck the entire time I've been here," said Manda Bala director Kohn after delivering an exuberant, four-letter-word-filled speech at the awards and leaving a message for his onetime boss, documentary director Errol Morris. A rep at his sales agent Cinetic Media, which hasn't yet sold the film, warned him it would be a "rollercoaster" week, with people paying attention, then not. "My self worth has gone up and down. It's definitely up now," he said.
Two-time Grace winner Strouse said after the awards that "to be honest, this was the one I was hoping for." The first-time helmer is currently looking at different projects and trying to get more of his fiction published, but a friend is trying to pull him down to Earth. "He told me 'You need to come back home. Sundance isn't the center of the world, '" he laughed.
Some features seemed to justify their high sales prices with popular appeal. James C. Strouse's family drama Grace Is Gone took home the Audience Award: Dramatic, while David Sington's Apollo program chronicle In The Shadow Of The Moon won the World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary. They sold for $4 million to Weinstein Co. for worldwide rights and $2.5 million to $3 million to ThinkFilm for North American rights (excluding TV), respectively. Sington noted onstage that Saturday was the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 1 incident that killed three astronauts.
Two films won two awards each. Grace is Gone landed 29-year-old writer Strouse the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, and Heloisa Passos was honored for documentary excellence in cinematography for Manda Bala.
"I've been a nervous wreck the entire time I've been here," said Manda Bala director Kohn after delivering an exuberant, four-letter-word-filled speech at the awards and leaving a message for his onetime boss, documentary director Errol Morris. A rep at his sales agent Cinetic Media, which hasn't yet sold the film, warned him it would be a "rollercoaster" week, with people paying attention, then not. "My self worth has gone up and down. It's definitely up now," he said.
Two-time Grace winner Strouse said after the awards that "to be honest, this was the one I was hoping for." The first-time helmer is currently looking at different projects and trying to get more of his fiction published, but a friend is trying to pull him down to Earth. "He told me 'You need to come back home. Sundance isn't the center of the world, '" he laughed.
- 1/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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