Europe's Finest takes over film package from Celluloid Dreams for digital distribution

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October 21, 2009

Source: Europe's Finest Reelport

The Cologne digital cinema distribution platform Europe's Finest is offering nine festival successes from the current slate of Celluloid Dreams in DCI-compliant format for direct booking for European digital cinemas. 

Among them are films such as BETTER THINGS, DEAD IN 3 DAYS, KILL DADDY GOODNIGHT, LET'S MAKE MONEY, WEDDING DIRECTOR, WHEN A MAN COMES HOME, and WHITE NIGHT WEDDING. 

All films were shown, among others, at the film festivals in Cannes and Berlin. The complete package and the available territories can be found at www.finest-film.com.

"Our goal is to give our quality cinema an audience as large as possible and generate revenues for our rights owners. Through Europe's Finest we want to make it possible for our films to be shown in countries where, until now, we could not find any local distributor," says Hengameh Panahi, President of Celluloid Dreams. 

"Together with The Auteurs and in collaboration with The Criterion Collection we have set up the first global online VOD platform and have built a community of cinema lovers. Digital cinematic distribution through Europe's Finest is a good example of our strategy for the new digital means of distribution." 

"We are delighted that, with Celluloid Dreams, we have managed to win over one of the most important players in the world sales field with our concept. As a service provider for world sales, archives, and other rights owners we want to give films a second chance in European cinemas – independent of rental cycles and with flexibly addable subtitles. Besides our selection of film classics, we are currently setting up a second category specially aimed at young arthouse audiences," explains Tilman Scheel, CEO of Europe's Finest.