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…
EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to documentary Nationtimeby William Greaves, about the historic National Black Political Convention of 1972 which brought together major Black leaders and activists of the time.
The distributor is planning an October 23 release in virtual…
EXCLUSIVE:Kino Lorber has taken North American rights to Shatara Michelle Ford's Test Pattern.
The debut feature had its premiere at BlackStar Film Festival last year, where it won the Lionsgate/STARZ Producer Award, following which it also won the Narrative Features Jury Award at New Orleans Film Festival.
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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the new trailer for documentary You Never Had It – An Evening With Charles Bukowski, which will be released in North America on Kino Lorber’s Kino Marquee revenue share platform on August 7 to mark the centennial of Bukowski's birth.
The distributor, which is releasing the film in collaboration…
Without a doubt, one of the main heroes fighting coronavirus is medical professionals who are on the frontlines risking their lives so that we are safe. To honor these nurses, Kino Lorber is re-releasing the 2014 documentary The American Nurse.
The docu will stream free on its streaming platform Kino Now from now…
The specialty box office space has quickly adapted to the changing film landscape as many are shifting to virtual theatrical openings. Many indie and arthouse titles do day and date releases and are VOD-only so the transition, for the most part, is familiar territory for many distributors and production…
Kino Lorber’s Kino Marquee initiative, which looks to help arthouses at a time when they’ve been shuttered in the coronavirus climate, has mushroomed from 12 theaters last week to 150 including Alamo Drafthouse and Laemmle Theaters.
For the price of $12, Kino Marquee is streaming last year’s Cannes Grand Jury Prize…
