Nonprofit Festival Runner Opens Distrib Arm
The U.S.-based nonprofit Global Film Initiative is broadening its distribution business, launching a DVD arm with two July releases. The org, which operates the traveling film fest of international narrative pics Global Lens, is bringing its distribution operations in-house for all markets, including VOD licensing, educational sales and theatrical and non-theatrical sales. DVD releases will concentrate on alums of Global Lens, with “Getting Home” from Chinese director Zhang Yang and “Song from the Southern Seas” by Kazakh writer-director Marat Sarulu to be released July 27. Four or five DVD offerings will be put out per quarter on a bi-monthly sked, with a total of 10 releases planned for 2010.
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