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, The Corporation, Into Great Silence, Manufactured Landscapes, Up the Yangtze, Trouble the Water, Last Train Home, Bill Cunningham New York, , and Studio 54.
Five Zeitgeist films have been nominated for Academy Awards and one, Nowhere in Africa, 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. 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
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