NYFF the last stop for distributors

October 06, 2008 Raising its film profiles among specialty audiences and awards voters, the NYFF is becoming a more important proving ground for several titles without distributors, as well as companies with newly ramped-up slates. Pena has seen reps from Miramax, Sony Pictures Classics, IFC Films, Kino, new distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories and Cinetic Media (with its new, director-heavy management division) scouting films at the fest. Like investors swooping up shares in a falling stock market, all are cautiously stepping in where most surviving specialty divisions and minimajors are fearing to tread, with several pressing ahead with mandates to fill their 2009 slates.

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