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EXCLUSIVE: Veteran indie executive and filmmaker Jeff Lipsky is hooking up with Kino Lorber to launch The Jeff Lipsky Collection on growing streaming service Kino Now. The collection, which becomes available on March 5, will include five out of seven of Lipsky's directing efforts dating from 2006-2019. Other…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran indie executive Jeff Lipsky, who launched distribution consulting firm Glass Half Full Media in 2017, returns to theaters as director/writer this spring with The Last, and we have the first clip (check it out above). The Last is Lipsky’s 7th feature and is a Holocaust-themed family drama. It tells…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran indie executive Jeff Lipsky is launching his latest venture, Glass Half Full Media. The distribution consulting firm will provide services for U.S. and international producers, filmmakers and sales agents. Based in New York, Glass Half Full has recruited former Film Society of Lincoln Center Film…

The Academy has championed films from far-away lands for 60 years, helping to raise the profile of a select few. Along with those that score an Oscar win, a nomination or make the shortlist, there are dozens more that often fade into oblivion. So how does foreign language film translate to the general moviegoing…

EXCLUSIVE: The latest film helmed by Jeff Lipsky, an indie distribution veteran and Adopt Films co-founder, is due for domestic theatrical release in July via Plainview Pictures. Mad Women, a dark satire, is the sixth title in Lipsky’s oeuvre, which also includes Flannel Pajamas and Molly’s Theory Of Relativity. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Grady and Jeff Lipsky's New York-based Adopt Films has been very acquisitive on the foreign language scene since co-founding the indie distributor in 2011. Last year, they handled Oscar nominee Omar, by Hany Abu Assad, and also in 2014 picked up Cannes Palme d'Or winner Winter Sleep. In 2012 at Berlin…

Tim Grady and October Films co-founder Jeff Lipsky co-created New York-based Adopt Films in 2011. Since banding together, the pair has been savvy in their foreign language pick-ups, pouncing on four fims in Berlin in 2012, for example, with each going on to win prizes there — and three ending up as their respective…

“Independent American films are largely considered anathema to foreign distributors these days,” says Jeff Lipsky. The distribution veteran, who’s also a John Cassavetes-mentored filmmaker, knows a thing or two about the indie business. He co-founded October Films with Bingham Ray in 1991, and is also a former…

Adopt Films has acquired all U.S. rights to Jeff Lipsky's fifth feature film, "Molly's Theory of Relativity." “Molly’s Theory of Relativity” is a sexy, funny, surreal, and devastating portrait of a beautiful twenty-eight-year-old astronomer who, having unexpectedly lost her job, is poised to make perhaps the first…

Adopt Films has acquired U.S. rights to Sister (L´enfant d´en haut), the Ursula Meier-directed film that had its world premiere in the main competition of the Berlin International Film Festival. Adopt plans a late 2012 theatrical release. Sister stars Léa Seydoux and Kacey Mottet Klein. They play siblings struggling…