EXCLUSIVE:Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, the Ric Burns documentary about the famed neurologist and author that the premiered this fall at the Telluride Film Festival, has been acquired by Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber. As part of the U.S. rights deal, the pic will open theatrically in May 2020 at Film…
UPDATED with DOC NYC winners, 6:30 PM: CNN Films has acquired the documentary feature Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice and set its television premiere for New Year’s Day on CNN.
Ronstadt was 21 when she first hit the national charts with the Stone Poneys’ “Different Drum,” and her plaintive vocal leapt off the…
EXCLUSIVE:Kino Lorber has picked up North American rights to Capital In The Twenty-First Century, Justin Pemberton's feature doc that explores wealth and power and shines a light on today's growing inequality.
Pic is based on the best-seller by French economist Thomas Piketty. It will have its North American premiere…
EXCLUSIVE:Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, the Alison Reid documentary about pioneering biologist Anne Innis Dagg, who began studying giraffes in the wild in South Africa in 1956 (ahead of Jane Goodall’s and Diane Fosse’s exploits), but who…
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. art house distributor Kino Lorber is launching film and TV VOD streaming platform Kino Now, we can reveal. The service, which includes options to rent and buy, currently hosts 600 titles from the company’s catalog and includes early access to new releases. The number of titles is set to double by the…
Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to Young Ahmed, the latest film from Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne to bow at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Director prize this year. The film is having its North American premiere at the upcoming COLCOA French Film Festival in Los Angeles, and it…
Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber on Tuesday said they have co-acquired U.S. rights to Ken Loach's Sorry We Missed You, which had its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The news comes as the pic readies for a screening at the Toronto Film Festival next month. The plan is for Zeitgeist to release the…
EXCLUSIVE: The climate change documentary Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is just as much a visual marvel as it is a call to action. Kino Lorber is partnering with the streaming platform Kanopy to bring the feature docu to over 100 theaters nationwide on September 25 to coincide with the U.N. Climate Action Summit and…
For a second year in a row, Kino Lorber has inked a deal for Berlin’s Golden Bear winner. The indie distributor said Thursday it has acquired North American rights to Synonyms, Nadav Lapid's drama that won Berlin’s top prize after it world premiered there in February. The pic will now get a U.S. theatrical release in…
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Abel Ferrara’s drama Pasolini, nearly five years after its world premiere at Venice and subsequent festival slots that year in Toronto and New York.
The film, which stars Willem Dafoe, will have its theatrical premiere in New York at The Metrograph on May 10. Leading…
Deep in the credits for the documentary Of Fathers and Sons comes a startling notation—a mention of the firm that supplied kidnapping and ransom insurance. That's an indication of just how dangerous the project was for director Talal Derki, who risked his life to get inside a radical Islamist family in Northwestern…
