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Kino Lorber has acquired distributor Artsploitation Films from its owner and president Ray Murray. Murray and his team will remain with the business as a Kino Lorber brand and division. The deal for Artsploitation, which releases international genre and cutting-edge specialty films, adds 100 titles to Kino Lorber’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz's feature documentary Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters, which had its world premiere at DOC NYC in 2020. The film brings to life the creative process that culminated in choreographer, dancer, director…

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to cult filmmaker Beth B’s documentary Lydia Lunch The War Is Never Over. The film is a deep dive into the life and work of the musician and performer Lunch, who was known on the late 1970s New York City downtown scene for her band Teenage Jesus And The Jerks…

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Lisa Immordino Vreeland's well-received documentary Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation. The film charts the personal and professional journeys of iconic American artists and writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. Vreeland explores their…

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: Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to the Chris McKim-directed documentary Wojnarowicz which is also known for its full, and for some, controversial title, Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F*cker. The documentary which spotlights the artist and activist David Wojnarowicz is produced by Randy…

Of the 238 feature documentaries to qualify for Oscar consideration this year, two of the most acclaimed contenders come from Romania—an impressive achievement for the Eastern European nation. Collective, Romania's official Oscar entry for Best International Film, has won more than 20 prizes to date and this week was…

UPDATED with video: Never Gonna Snow Again co-directors and co-writers Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert's professional collaboration is an unusual one — the pair are ex-husband and wife. But Szumowska says their enduring partnership shows "collaboration is possible.” "In these difficult times I think it's a…

The new documentary The Reason I Jump begins with text on screen that explains the basis for the film: "Ten years ago a book by Japanese teenager, Naoki Higashida, revealed a previously hidden world." That hidden world is the mental landscape of a non-speaking autistic youth, a variety of human experience that has…

EXCLUSIVE: In 2007, Naoki Higashida mapped out his experience as a nonspeaking autistic child and the difficulties he faces with self-expression in his book The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy With Autism. “How do I see the world? For me, the details jump straight out,” he writes. “Inside my…

Kino Lorber has picked up North American rights to Never Gonna Snow Again, Malgorzata Szumowska's Polish drama which is representing the country in this year's International Oscar race. The distributor is lining up a theatrical release in Spring, 2021. The film debuted in competition at Venice this year. It stars Alec…

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Jeffrey Wolf's documentary Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts and is planning to release in Spring 2021. The doc captures the life of the titular Bill Traylor who, in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of…