Nike Gets Into Film Distribution
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| Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film found this 8/8/2008 on blog.spout.com [flag] |
So: Sidetrack Films, the producers of Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard’s doc Beautiful Losers ( see our SXSW coverage here ), have signed a deal with Nike to sponsor the film’s release in five cities, starting with its New York premiere this Friday.
Like Mark Rabinowitz, who wrote a post on indieWIRE’s new Docsider blog pondering What This All Means in relation to the state ...
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Published 8/8/2008 by Danny Leigh at Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film
... ... Elsewhere, Spout Blog report on the genre/culture formerly known as indie finding a new kind of patron after the collapse of so many studio-sponsored boutique production houses. The lab rat is Beautiful Losers, a much-praised documentary about the art scene that evolved around Manhattan's Alleged Gallery back in the mid 90s and helped throw up such figures as Harmony Korine and Mike Mills. Now, the movie is getting a cinema release in the US - but rather than a Warner Independent or Paramount Vantage, one funded by Nike, who are also set to produce 22 limited edition ...
