Richard Lorber has formed a new distribution company Alive Mind to release documentary programming in "the areas of enlightened consciousness and cultural transformation." Alive Mind is a specialty distribution arm of his new company, Lorber HT Digital. Its newest acquisition is The Gates acquired for North America. Current releases include the documentary film the musical Hair, Hair: Let The Sun Shine In, director Jessica Yu's Protagonist, and FLicKeR about Brion Gysin, visionary artist and beat generation inventor of the "Dreamachine". Created out of the realization that many fine non-fiction works were “failing to connect not only with general audiences but also even with specialized audiences whose interests were aligned with the focus of the filmmaker” the company generally works on a revenue sharing basis with their filmmakers and aspires to make them marketing partners in an effort to reach the largest specialized audience and the most passionate segments of the general audience."...
- 1/6/2009
- Sydney's Buzz
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