Zeitgeist Films
|
Zeitgeist Films logo | |
| Privately held company | |
| Industry | Film distribution |
| Founded | June, 1988 |
| Founders |
Nancy Gerstman Emily Russo |
| Headquarters | New York City |
Key people |
Adrian Curry Taso Georgakis |
| Website | zeitgeistfilms.com |
Zeitgeist Films is an American independent film distributor based in New York City founded in 1988 by co-Presidents Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo. Films distributed by Zeitgeist are strongly auteur-driven by directors such as Christopher Nolan, Guy Maddin, Atom Egoyan, Todd Haynes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Olivier Assayas, Abbas Kiarostami, Deepa Mehta, Jan Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay. The expansive Zeitgeist film library includes Trouble the Water, The Corporation, Jellyfish, Examined Life, Into Great Silence, Ten and Irma Vep. In June 2008, the MoMA honored two decades of Zeitgeist successes with a month-long, twenty film retrospective entitled Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Time, exhibiting the distributor's twenty most critically acclaimed, intellectually stimulating titles.[1]
Selected films
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Court | July, 2015 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2015 | Every Last Child | June, 2015 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2015 | Forbidden Films | May, 2015 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2014 | Diplomacy | October, 2014 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2014 | Rocks in My Pockets | September, 2014 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2014 | Siddharth | June, 2014 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2014 | The Galapagos Affair | April, 2014 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2014 | Child's Pose | February, 2014 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2013 | The Pervert's Guide to Ideology | November, 2013 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2013 | Let the Fire Burn | October, 2013 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2013 | Hannah Arendt | May 29, 2013 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2013 | One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das | May 8, 2013 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2012 | Uprising | December, 2012 U.S. premiere and Golden Eagle winner at CINE competition |
| 2012 | Let My People Go! | January 11, 2013 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2012 | Koch | October 8, 2012 premiere at Hamptons International Film Festival, U.S. release in February 2013 |
| 2012 | Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters | October 31, 2012 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2012 | Elena | May 16, 2012 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2012 | The Salt of Life | March 2, 2012 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2012 | China Heavyweight | January 20, 2012 premiere at Sundance Film Festival |
| 2012 | Payback | January 20, 2012 premiere at Sundance Film Festival, U.S. release in April 2012 |
| 2011 | Something Ventured | Premiered April 24, 2011 at the San Francisco International Film Festival |
| 2011 | Paul Goodman Changed My Life | October 19, 2011 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2011 | The Tree | 2010 Cannes Film Festival Closing Night Film, Premiered at the 2010 Sydney Film Festival |
| 2011 | !Women Art Revolution | Toronto International Film Festival Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival Official Selection, Berlin International Film Festival Official Selection |
| 2011 | Queen to Play | Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection, Palm Springs International Film Festival Special Mention for John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature |
| 2011 | Bill Cunningham New York | New Directors/New Films Festival Official Selection, Sydney Film Festival Best Documentary Film |
| 2010 | Vision | Toronto International Film Festival Official Selection |
| 2010 | Last Train Home | Sundance Film Festival Official Selection |
| 2010 | Mid-August Lunch | Venice Film Festival Best First Film, Best Italian Film Award. London Film Festival Satyajit Ray Award |
| 2010 | The Oath | Sundance Film Festival Best Cinematography Award: US Documentary, Berlin International Film Festival Official Selection |
| 2009 | A Town Called Panic | Cannes Film Festival Official Selection, Fantastic Festival Audience Award |
| 2009 | Act of God | Hot Docs Opening Night Gala |
| 2009 | Earth Days | Sundance Film Festival Closing Night Film |
| 2009 | The Horse Boy | Winner South by Southwest Audience Award |
| 2009 | The Sun Behind the Clouds | Winner Palm Springs International Film Festival Best of the Fest award |
| 2009 | Afghan Star | Sundance Film Festival People's Choice Award (the World Cinema Audience Award for a Documentary) and Best Director for a Documentary (the World Cinema Directing Award) |
| 2008 | Trouble the Water | Academy Award for Documentary Feature nominee |
| 2008 | Tulpan | Kazakhstan's Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Language Film |
| 2008 | Three Monkeys | Turkey's Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Language Film, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Best Director Award Cannes Film Festival 2008 |
| 2008 | Harlan - In the Shadow of Jew Süss | |
| 2008 | Fados | |
| 2008 | Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine | |
| 2008 | Examined Life | directed by Astra Taylor, featuring Cornel West, |
| 2008 | Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains | |
| 2008 | Up the Yangtze | 2008 Best Feature Documentary San Francisco International Film Festival, 2009 Canadian Oscar Genie Award for Best Documentary, and 2008 Asian Oscar Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards for Best Documentary. |
| 2007 | Jellyfish | Camera d’Or |
| 2007 | Chris & Don: A Love Story | |
| 2007 | Billy the Kid | Winner South by Southwest Jury Prize |
| 2006 | Manufactured Landscapes | |
| 2006 | Into Great Silence | Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize |
| 2006 | My Country, My Country | documentary about Iraq under U.S. occupation by Laura Poitras |
| 2005 | Sophie Scholl – The Final Days | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nominee |
| 2005 | Ballets Russes | |
| 2004 | The Corporation | |
| 2002 | Derrida | San Francisco Film Festival Golden Gate Award |
| 2002 | Nowhere in Africa | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film |
| 1993 | Blue | Final feature film of director Derek Jarman |
| 1993 | Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media | Featuring Noam Chomsky |
| 1992 | Careful | Directed by Guy Maddin |
| 1991 | Poison | Sundance Grand Jury Prize, directed by Todd Haynes |
Awards
- Trouble the Water – 2008 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature
- Tulpan – Kazakhstan's 2009 Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Language Film
- Three Monkeys – Turkey's 2009 Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Language Film
- Into Great Silence – 2006 Sundance Special Jury Prize
- Nowhere in Africa – 2002 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Sophie Scholl - The Final Days – 2005 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
- Taste of Cherry – 1997 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival
- Poison – 1991 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1996 re-release) – Academy Award nominee, Palme d'Or winner (1964)
References
- ↑ "Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Time". MoMA. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
External links
- Official website
- Zeitgeist Films at IMDb
- Zeitgeist Films at Facebook
- Zeitgeist Films at Tumblr
- Zeitgeist Films at Twitter
- Zeitgeist Films at Instagram
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, February 09, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.