Zeitgeist Films
Zeitgeist Films is an American independent film distributor based in New York City founded in 1988 by co-Presidents Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo. Zeitgeist's catalog includes films from filmmakers such as Guy Maddin, Derek Jarman, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Peter Greenaway, Marguerite von Trotta, Matt Tyrnauer, Philippe Garrel, Yvonne Rainer, Andrei Zyvagintsev, Astra Taylor, and Raoul Peck. Zeitgeist has released debut films by Todd Haynes, Christopher Nolan, Laura Poitras, Deepa Mehta, Francois Ozon, Atom Egoyan and the Quay Brothers. Zeitgeist is known for distributing such documentaries as Derrida (2002), The Corporation (2003), Into Great Silence (2005), Manufactured Landscapes (2006), Up the Yangtze (2007), Trouble the Water (2008), Last Train Home (2009), Bill Cunningham New York (2010), Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017), and Studio 54 (2018).
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| Type | Privately held company |
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| Industry | Film distribution |
| Founded | June 1988 |
| Founders | Nancy Gerstman Emily Russo |
| Headquarters | New York City , United States |
Key people | Adrian Curry |
| Website | zeitgeistfilms.com |
Five Zeitgeist films have been nominated for Academy Awards and one, Nowhere in Africa (2001), won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Zeitgeist films have been honored by festivals throughout the world with Grand Prizes at Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, Tribeca, and IDFA in Amsterdam. In June 2008, 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] Since June 2017, Zeitgeist Films has partnered with veteran distributor Kino Lorber to acquire a boutique slate of films which Zeitgeist releases theatrically with Kino Lorber handling the ancillary rights.
Selected films
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2020 | Beyond the Visible -- Hilma af Klint | |
| 2020 | Sorry We Missed You | March, 2020 U.S. theatrical release date—Acquired in Partnership with Kino Lorber |
| 2020 | The Woman Who Loves Giraffes | January, 2020 U.S. theatrical release date—Acquired in Partnership with Kino Lorber |
| 2019 | Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project | November, 2019 U.S. theatrical release date—Acquired in Partnership with Kino Lorber |
| 2019 | Zen for Nothing | June, 2019 U.S. theatrical release date—Acquired in Partnership with Kino Lorber |
| 2019 | The Garden (re-release) | May, 2019 U.S. theatrical release date—Acquired in Partnership with Kino Lorber |
| 2019 | Working Woman | March, 2019 U.S. theatrical release date—Acquired in Partnership with Kino Lorber |
| 2019 | What is Democracy? | January, 2019 U.S. theatrical release date—Acquired in Partnership with Kino Lorber |
| 2018 | Studio 54 | October, 2018 U.S. theatrical release date—Acquired in Partnership with Kino Lorber |
| 2018 | Love, Cecil | June, 2018 U.S. theatrical release date—Acquired in Partnership with Kino Lorber |
| 2018 | The Doctor from India | June, 2018 U.S. theatrical release date—Acquired in Partnership with Kino Lorber |
| 2017 | Bombshell | November, 2017 U.S. theatrical release date—Acquired in Partnership with Kino Lorber |
| 2017 | The Divine Order | October, 2017 U.S. theatrical release date—Acquired in Partnership with Kino Lorber |
| 2017 | Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story | April, 2017 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2016 | Old Stone | November, 2016 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2016 | Don't Call Me Son | November, 2016 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2016 | Innsaei | October, 2016 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2016 | Call Her Applebroog | June, 2016 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2016 | Eva Hesse | April, 2016 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2016 | Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt | April, 2016 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2016 | A Space Program | March, 2016 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 2015 | My Friend Victoria | December, 2015 U.S. theatrical release date |
| 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 | Zero Motivation | December, 2014 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 |
| 1997 | See the Sea | |
| 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
External links
- Official website
- Zeitgeist Films at IMDb
- Zeitgeist Films at Facebook
- Zeitgeist Films at Tumblr
- Zeitgeist Films at Twitter
- Zeitgeist Films at Instagram
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