VIRGIL FILMS & ENTERTAINMENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH
OWN: OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK PRESENTS THE HOME VIDEO DEBUT OF

65_REDROSES
TENT CITY, USA

Following their recent premiere on the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, Virgil Films & Entertainment is proud to release the DVD debuts of two powerful documentaries beginning June 19^th. Winner of two Vancouver International Film Festival Awards, and the Top Ten Audience Favorite at the 2009 Hot Docs Awards, 65_RedRoses follows the story of Eva Markvoort who is diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis.  Online she befriends two young ladies suffering with the same disease who provide support and inspiration while Eva awaits an organ and the phone call that just might save her life.  Tent City, USA, a harrowing documentary from executive producer Gabriel Byrne, conveys the story of a self-sufficient community made up of 100 homeless people living in tents in Nashville, TN.  Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, resistance from surrounding communities, and damaging floods, the people in Tent City unite together to prove that they may be homeless, but never helpless.  Both DVDs will be available, containing special bonus features, for the suggested retail price of $19.99 each.

65_RedRoses

SRP: $ 19.99

Synopsis

Redefining the traditional scope of documentary film in an electronic age, 65_RedRoses leaves viewers with a new appreciation of life and the digital world. This personal and touching journey takes an unflinching look into the lives of Eva Markvoort and her two online friends who are all battling cystic fibrosis (CF) - a fatal genetic disease affecting the lungs and digestive system.

Unable to meet in person because of the spread of infections and super bugs, the girls have become each other’s lifelines through the internet, providing unconditional love, support and understanding long after visiting hours are over. Now at a critical turning point in their lives, the film travels the distance the friends cannot go themselves, capturing the compelling and often heartbreaking realities they face, just trying to take each breath.

DVD Bonus Features:

• Special Introduction from Oprah and Rosie O’Donnell
• Director Interviews
• Character Intros
• Transplants/Organ Donations/Campaign
• Remembering Eva
• Coming Attractions

Tent City, USA

SRP:  $19.99

Synopsis:

Due primarily to the economic recession, a growing number of people are finding themselves in a position they never imagined: homeless. Nashville, TN is home to a fast rising tent city population.  With a shelter system that cannot support even 1 out of 5 of the city’s homeless population, most people have nowhere to go.  Nearly 100 homeless individuals have come together to form Nashville’s Tent City, which is located under a bridge close to the city’s center. “Tent City, U.S.A.” explores this community, which is self-sustained and self-governed. The camp has it’s own council, composed of eight camp residents who meet once a week to discuss residents’ issues.

For the first time in Nashville history, the municipally run Homeless Commission has opened one seat on its Council to a resident of Tent City.  Four people from Tent City have decided to run for the position and one elected resident will have the opportunity to spearhead the search for new land for a transitional camp for the homeless, a new Tent City.

DVD Bonus Features:

• Meeting MacGyver
• Trouble at the New Tent City
• Sundance Interviews with filmmaker
• Coming Attractions

PROGRAM INFORMATION:

MUSIC BOX FILMS HOME ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES

Miss Minoes

IN THE TRADITION OF MARY POPPINS AND PETER PAN COMES THIS DELIGHTFUL FAMILY FABLE STARRING TELEVISION PRIESTESS CARICE VAN HOUTEN

Available on DVD and VOD
June 12, 2012

“A pleasantly quirky, family-friendly fable with lots of meowing.”
–Neil Genzlinger, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Vincent Bal’s film should appeal to kids, cat lovers and felines…my cat, Audrey, gives it three meows.”
–V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST

Chicago, IL (April 27,2012) - Meet Miss Minoes, a charming young woman in the Dutch town of Killendoorn who until recently was…a cat! Based on the classic 1970 book by Dutch children’s author Annie M.G. Schmidt and directed by veteran Dutch filmmaker Vincent Bal, MISS MINOES stars award-winning Dutch star Carice van Houten (who’s currently taking the U.S. by storm as the magical priestess Melisandre in HBO’s Game of Thrones) in the title role of the cat-turned-woman Miss Minoes. Winner of the Golden Calf Award for Best Actress (van Houten) and Best Film at the Holland Film Festival and was the recipient of the Children’s Jury Prize for Best International Live Action Feature Film at the Children’s International Children’s Film Festival, the New York Times Critics’ Pick, MISS MINOES is coming to DVD this June!

Cat gossip has never been this juicy…and whistle-blowing has never been this catty! Just because she’s magically changed into a lady doesn’t mean all her feline tendencies have fallen to the wayside: Miss Minoes still enjoys purring, rubbing her face against other people’s faces, sleeping in a box, and, of course, communicating with her fellow cats-all of whom still recognize her from her days as a local feline.

Miss Minoes’ whiskers-to-woman transformation proves to be the best thing to ever happen to Killendoorn in the charming family film MISS MINOES, which makes its DVD and VOD debut by Music Box Films Home Entertainment on June 12, 2012 (prebook May 8, 2012) following its well-received Stateside theatrical release in the nation’s top markets in December, 2011.

Alongside Van Houten stars Theo Maasen as Tibbe, the shy but talented journalist who receives life-changing assistance from Miss Minoes in the form of her team of news-gathering kitties, who pass on local gossip to Tibbe and turn him into a star reporter before they uncover the nefarious plans of a scheming nearby factory owner.

Featuring a fantastic array of fun-loving felines and a positive message about the importance of respecting all creatures great and small, no matter what their differences may be, MISS MINOES is the cat’s meow for families, children and any-and-all lovers of our furry, four-legged friends.

More information on MISS MINOES can be found on the film’s website, http://www.musicboxfilms.com/miss-minoes.
Miss Minoes - Synopsis:
On the verge of being fired from his local newspaper in the Dutch town of Killendoorn, talented-but-shy journalist Tibbe’s (Theo Maasen) fortunes begin to look up after he meets Miss Minoes (Carice Van Houten), an extraordinary woman who claims she used to be a cat! Tibbe doesn’t know what to make of Miss Minoes (who certainly embodies a lot of cat-like qualities), but after she supplies him with exclusive news stories that she’s picked up from her feline friends, he decides to make her his assistant in return for bed and board. As the numerous cats in Killendoorn supply Miss Minoes with updates, Tibbe rises to prominence as a successful journalist. But while Tibbe is eager to takes advantage of Miss Minoes’ “Cat News Service,” he does not want her to behave like a cat, much to the frustration of Tibbe’s neighbor, 8-year-old Bibi (Sarah Bannier), who enjoys a delightful nighttime adventure with Miss Minoes. Things begin to get tricky when Miss Minoes’ cats prompt Tibbe to publish an article on how a highly regarded local businessman is in fact an underhanded scoundrel. Miss Minoes, Bibi and Killendoorn’s cats kick into action and they quickly restore Tibbe’s professional and personal reputation. But everyone’s moment of triumph is overshadowed by rumors that Miss Minoes has decided to become a cat again. It’s only when she disappears that Tibbe realizes how much she truly means to him…

About Music Box Films:
Founded in 2007, Music Box Films has quickly established itself as one of the leading distributors of non-English language feature films in the US in theaters, on DVD and Blu-ray, and via Video-on-Demand. Music Box’s release of Guillaume Canet’s Tell No One was the most popular foreign-language film of 2008. In 2010, the film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s trilogy of international mega-sellers dominated the foreign-language film market: the first in the series, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was one of the most popular international releases of the decade with over $10 million in US box office. Music Box Films is independently owned and operated by the Southport Music Box Corporation which also owns and operates The Music Box Theatre, Chicago’s premiere venue for independent and foreign films.

Miss Minoes
Music Box Films Home Entertainment
STREET DATE: June 12, 2012
Pre-book Date: May 8, 2012
SRP: DVD $29.95
Cast: Carice Van Houten, Theo Maassen, Sarah Bannier, Pierre Bokma, Hans Kesting, Kees Hulst
Director: Vincent Bal
Running Time: 92 min.
Format: 1.85:1 widescreen
Sound Format: Dolby Digital
Rating: PG
Country: Netherlands
Language: English

Bonus Features*
• Kitty Bloopers
• Theatrical Trailer
• Multiple Language Tracks: English, Spanish & Dutch.

For Immediate Release:

VIRGIL FILMS & ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS

Kathleen Turner Vies for Catholic Woman of The Year in Righteous
On-Screen Comeback Leading An All-Star Cast

THE PERFECT FAMILY

On DVD June 26^th

Featuring Audio Commentary by Kathleen Turner

NEW YORK CITY (April 18, 2012) - Since bursting into Hollywood with her blockbuster thriller, Body Heat, Kathleen Turner has managed a 30-year career both on-screen and on- stage from Crimes of Passion, to Romancing The Stone, to Broadway’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Now, 18 years after her last leading role in the film, Serial Mom, Kathleen Turner makes her on-screen comeback as a good Christian wife and mother in Anne Renton’s debut film, which premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. Following a limited theatrical release, The Perfect Family, will get its nationwide premiere with a June DVD release by Virgil Films & Entertainment.

The film features an all-star cast including: two-time Golden Globe^® winner Kathleen Turner (Romancing The Stone, Prizzi’s Honor), Emily Deschanel (TV’s “Bones”), Jason Ritter (TV’s “Parenthood”), Elizabeth Peña (The Incredibles, Jacob’s Ladder), Michael McGrady (The Thin Red Line), Golden Globe^® Winner Richard Chamberlain (TV’s “The Bourne Identity” and “Thorn Birds”) and Emmy^® Award Winner Sharon Lawrence (TV’s “NYPD Blue”).

When nominated for ‘Catholic Woman of The Year’, Eileen and her family are placed underthe microscope and put to the test by her parish, church members, and each other.  While the competition heats up at church, Eileen realizes she must also find a way to keep her dysfunctional family away from their sinful ways.

Beginning June 26^th, The Perfect Family will be available on DVD for the suggested retail price of $24.99 by Virgil Films & Entertainment.  Bonus features on the disc will include audio commentary by Kathleen Turner and a photo gallery.

The Perfect Family - synopsis

Kathleen Turner stars in this timely family comedy as a meddling matriarch determined to rein her husband and two grown children into her image of what the “perfect family” should be. When her son and daughter choose to march to the beat of their own drum, the fur begins to fly. Also starring Emily Deschanel, Jason Ritter, Richard Chamberlain, and Elizabeth Peña, THE PERFECT FAMILY was written by Claire V. Riley and Paula Goldberg, and directed by Anne Renton.

For more information, please visit www.VirgilFilms.com

VIRGIL FILMS & ENTERTAINMENT

Virgil Films & Entertainment, formerly Arts Alliance America, was founded in 2003 as Hart Sharp Video by Joe Amodei to develop, acquire, market and distribute DVD product in the theatrical feature film, documentaries, special interest and sports categories.  The company has built partnerships with OWN, Sundance Channel Home Entertainment, National Geographic Cinema Ventures, ESPN, MLB Productions, Morgan Spurlock’s Warrior Poets and other high-profile entertainment brands since their inception.  Recent releases from Virgil Films & Entertainment include the documentary, My Run; the Sci-fi thriller Lunopolis: The Wildest Dream, narrated by Liam Neeson; the hit film, Forks Over Knives; Michael Imperioli’s directorial debut The Hungry Ghosts; and National Geographic’s Oscar^® nominated documentary Restrepo. For more information, please visit: www.VirgilFilmsEnt.com

*Bonus Features

• Audio Commentary by Kathleen Turner
• Photo Gallery

For Immediate Release:

Down Home Radio Show and The Jalopy Theatre Presents:

THE BROOKLYN FOLK FESTIVAL ARRIVES DOWNTOWN WITH OVER 30 MUSICIANS OF VARIOUS STYLES FROM

ACROSS THE WORLD

Date: May 18 - 20, 2012

Tickets: $20 per day or $45 weekend pass

Location: 345 Jay Street between Metrotech and Willoughby

Brooklyn, NY (April 4, 2012) - This year, the founders of the Brooklyn Folk Festival will transform 27,000sqft of raw space in Downtown Brooklyn into a music wonderland in order to showcase the musical talents of renowned Americana singers, to local and national folk bands, to musicians from around the world.  Legendary singer, musician and folklorist Alice Gerrard, formerly of Hazel and Alice (with Hazel Dickens) will be performing as well as Brett Ratliff, banjo player and ballad singer of Eastern Kentucky, Michael Daves the well known bluegrass singer will perform, and Bodoma debuts their traditional Afro-Caribbean Garifuna music from Honduras.  The festival opens Friday, May 18^th with a special tribute to Brooklyn’s own Woody Guthrie who would have turned 100 this year.

Music at the Folk Festival will range from Appalachian folk and string-band music, to hot jazz, Americana, jug bands, blues and klezmer, as well as traditional music from Mexico, the Carribean, the Balkans and more. The festival costs $20 per day or $45 for the three-day pass. Tickets include access to all instrumental workshops, film screenings, events and the Sunday afternoon square dance. Locally brewed beer, wine and food will be available for purchase.

“We are so excited about this year’s festival, which will have more entertainment, events, and music for all,” says Eli Smith of Down Home Radio Show. “Being at the epi-center of Downtown Brooklyn, everyone will be able to get there easily, and anyone who likes music will definitely want to make it.”

Performances will include: Michael Daves, Alice Gerrard, Peter Stampfel and the Ether Frolic Mob, Dennis Lichtman’s Brain Cloud, Pat Conte and Joe Belullavich, The Whiskey Spitters, Feral Foster, Little Brothers, Litvakus, Bodoma, Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues, Willy Gantrim, M. Shanghai String Band, and Wretched Refuse Stringband, just to name a few.

Additional events include fun competitions and musical prizes such as the new “Banjo-Toss competition” where contestants compete by tossing a banjo on a rope onto a hook, the winner takes home a new banjo!  Also this year inaugurates the “Battle of the Harmonicas” where harmonica playing contestants compete in a series of categories judged by the audience and a panel of judges to become the harmonica king of Brooklyn (and take home special prizes)!

For tickets and more information, please visit: www.BrooklynFolkFest.com, www.jalopy.biz, or www.downhomeradioshow.com

For updates & photos, please follow the festival on Facebook.com/BrooklynFolkFest and Twitter @BklynFolkFest

About The Fabulous Jalopy Theater:

For five years, the flourishing New York City folk music scene has found a home at The Jalopy Theatre, a recently expanded venue with a performance hall, tavern, instrument store and folk music school. The best of the city’s young musical talent can be seen at its regular Wednesday Roots & Ruckus free show. 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-395-3214, www.jalopy.biz.

About Down Home Radio Show:

Down Home Radio is a hardcore, unreconstructed, paleo-acoustic folk music program hosted by Eli Smith, organizer of the Brooklyn Folk Festival. Listen to five years of interviews posted in the archive at: www.downhomeradioshow.com

Media Contact:

Margarita [at] MSophiapr.com

MUSIC BOX FILMS HOME ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS

Henning Mankell’s Wallander

FROM THE PRODUCERS OF THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO AND THE MIND OF SCANDINAVIA’S GREATEST MYSTERY WRITER COMES THE ACCLAIMED TV SERIES ABOUT POLICE INSPECTOR KURT WALLANDER AS HE PROBES THE DARKNESS OF SWEDEN’S UNDERWORLD

13 Feature-Length Episodes Arriving In The U.S.
For The Very First Time In a 7-Disc Deluxe Box Set

Available on DVD and VOD
May 29, 2012

Chicago, IL (April 11, 2012) - Before Stieg Larsson emblazoned computer hacker Lisbeth Salander with her dragon tattoo, there lived a homicide detective stationed in the small city of Ystad on the Southern coast of Sweden by the name of Kurt Wallander. This May, the revered lawman will take the U.S. by storm in the stateside debut of the award-winning Swedish TV series with Henning Mankell’s Wallander. Startling and wholly engrossing in their originality and power, all 13 feature-length episodes, based on the writings by its creator, were produced in 2009-10 and star the award-winning veteran Swedish beloved actor Krister Henriksson.

Following its triumphant broadcast on Swedish television and across Europe, where it won England’s prestigious International TV Dagger at the 2010 Crime Thriller Awards, Henning Mankell’s Wallander, will available on VOD and DVD in a deluxe 7-disc box in the U.S. for the first time by Music Box Films Home Entertainment beginning May 29 (prebook April 24).

The episodes featured in Henning Mankell’s Wallander includes: “The Revenge”; “The Guilt”; “The Courier”; “The Thief”; “The Cellist”; “The Priest”; “The Leak”; “The Sniper”; “The Angel of Death”; “The Ghost” (aka ‘The Phantom’); “The Heritage”; “The Collector” (aka ‘The Dun’); and “The Witness.”

In Henning Mankell’s Wallander, viewers finds its brilliant but flawed hero drinking a little too much, struggling with anger control and meeting opposition with his friends, family and co-workers, but always on the job when it comes to tracking down the evildoers who slither through Sweden’s dark underbelly.

As the 13-episode series opens, Inspector Wallander is growing increasingly disillusioned with his work, often wondering whether he should have become a police officer at all. Still living with the fallout and memories of some of his past actions, coupled with a failing state of health, Wallander hopes to put himself at ease in a new home by the sea. But any thought of peace and quiet is quickly shattered when he is pulled into a murder investigation…and then another…until he comes to understand that applying his brilliant detective’s mind in the pursuit of truth and justice is indeed his destiny.

Described as “the godfather of Swedish crime” by The Washington Post and “Sweden’s greatest living mystery writer” by Los Angeles Times, Henning Mankell, has been bringing murderers to justice with his internationally acclaimed stories of Wallander for more than two decades.

More information on Henning Mankell’s Wallander can be found on the film’s website, http://www.musicboxfilms.com/wallander.

Who Is Kurt Wallander?
Kurt Wallander is a homicide detective in the small city of Ystad, on the southern coast of Sweden. An intelligent, dedicated and caring man who brings everything he has to each of the challenging murders he is assigned to solve, Wallander is nonetheless a flawed character who drinks and eats too much, struggles with anger and is frequently at loose ends socially and with his family. He frequently regards the crimes he investigates on a very personal level, throwing himself into catching criminals and going against the orders of his superiors to try to solve a case. Over the years he has grown increasingly disillusioned with his work, and often wonders whether he should have become a police officer at all, though he continues to believe that good can still triumph over the ever-encroaching forces of evil.

About Music Box Films:
Founded in 2007, Music Box Films has quickly established itself as one of the leading distributors of non-English language feature films in the US in theaters, on DVD and Blu-ray, and via Video-on-Demand. Music Box’s release of Guillaume Canet’s Tell No One was the most popular foreign-language film of 2008. In 2010, the film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s trilogy of international mega-sellers dominated the foreign-language film market: The first in the series, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was one of the most popular international releases of the decade with over $10 million in US box office. Music Box Films is independently owned and operated by the Southport Music Box Corporation, which also owns and operates The Music Box Theatre, Chicago’s premiere venue for independent and foreign films.

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Henning Mankell’s Wallander
Music Box Films Home Entertainment
STREET DATE: May 29, 2012
Pre-book Date: April 24, 2012
SRP: DVD $74.95
Cast: Krister Henriksson, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Mats Bergman, Stina Ekblad, Marianne Morck, Douglas Johansson, Lena Endre
Creator: Henning Mankell
Running Time: 1170 minutes (19 ½ hours)
Format: 16:9 anamorphic widescreen
Sound Format: Dolby Digital
Rating: NR
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish with English subtitles

Bonus Features*

Exclusive collectible booklet about the series and featuring an essay by renowned author and creator, Henning Mankell

VIRGIL FILMS HAS ACQUIRED NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS ‘TO THE PERFECT FAMILY’ STARRING KATHLEEN TURNER AND ‘#ReGENERATION’ NARRATED BY OSCAR® NOMINEE RYAN GOSLING

Anne Renton’s debut film, The Perfect Family, will get its nationwide DVD premiere with the June 26, 2010 release by Virgil Films & Entertainment. The film features an all-star cast including two-time Golden Globe® winner, Kathleen Turner (Romancing The Stone, Prizzi’s Honor), Emily Deschanel (Fox TV’s “Bones”), Jason Ritter (NBC TV’s “Parenthood”), Elizabeth Peña (The Incredibles, Jacob’s Ladder), Golden Globe Winner Richard Chamberlain (TV’s “The Bourne Identity” and “Thorn Birds”) and Emmy Award Winner Sharon Lawrence (TV’s “NYPD Blue”).

The family comedy made its debut at the Tribeca film festival in 2010, had a recent screening at the Miami Film Festival, and will open theatrically this May. The film will be available on DVD beginning June 26th with special bonus features.

The independent distributor also recently nabbed rights of the Seattle International Film Festival’s ‘Youth Jury Award’ recipient….Produced and narrated by Academy Award® nominated actor, Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson), #ReGENERATION will get a DVD release date this Summer from Virgil Films & Entertainment. Founded by Joe Amodei, the NY distributor has acquired exclusive North American DVD rights to the documentary based on the story of today’s generation.

The documentary features conversations with author/linguist Noam Chomsky, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli, the lead activist behind the Occupy Wall Street movement, Kalle Lasn, and an original score by STS9. The DVD will debut July 7, 2012.

For more information, please visit VirgilFilmsEnt.com

VIRGIL FILMS & ENTERTAINMENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH
OWN: OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK PRESENTS THE HOME VIDEO DEBUT OF

LOVE, ETC.

Available on DVD

May 22, 2012

This Summer, the award-winning documentary that stole the hearts of critics and audiences with its ode to matters of the heart is coming to DVD nationwide. Through the boroughs of New York City, Jill Andresevic’s first film, Love Etc., finds the reality of love in the forms of an elderly couple proving that love truly lasts forever, a teenage couple caught up in the effervescence of first love, a divorced parent starting over, a couple diving into the sanctity of marriage, and a single gay man embarking on the journey of parenthood. As seen thru the reality of these five diverse scenarios, Love Etc. presents a raw exhibition of love through the various stages of romance.

Audience Award winner at the Hamptons International Film Festival, Love, Etc. received accolades nationwide including “Four Stars” by the Boston Globe, was hailed as “utterly charming” by film critic, Jeffrey Lyons, “Heartwarming” by Glamour Magazine, and left a glowing impression on Oprah Winfrey who said, “It’s the award-winning film I believe will touch your heart.”

Beginning May 22nd, Virgil Films & Entertainment will present the DVD debut of Love, Etc., packed with special bonus features including deleted scenes, filmmaker panel, and special introduction from Oprah Winfrey, for the suggested retail price of $19.99.

Love, Etc.

'Love, Etc.'

Street Date: May 22, 2012
SRP: $ 19.99

Love, Etc. - Synopsis:
Love Etc. is a witty, poignant and humorous exploration about the universal stages of love, depicted through five real stories over the course of one year in New York City. Young, old, gay, straight - everyone has experienced love - and the joy and frustration that come with it. From teen romance to a decades-long marriage; newlyweds to a recent divorcee, and even a bachelor so frustrated in his search that he chooses to have children without a partner, Love Etc. documents the intimate journeys of engaging characters aged 18-89 who reflect the city’s diversity, and takes an honest look at life’s most challenging pursuit.

*DVD Special Features:
• Special Intro from Oprah Winfrey
• Director & EP Intro
• 92Y Filmmaker Panel
• Chitra & Mahendra’s Dig Dutti Ceremony
• Ethan at Home
• Ethan at Tatoo Parlor
• Ethan Miss Right Now
• Gabi & Danielle
• Silver Sneakers
• Sweetheart’s Advice
• Wii Bowling
• Coming Attractions

PROGRAM INFORMATION
Distributor: Virgil Films & Entertainment
Genre: Documentary
Director: Jill Andresevic
Running Time: 95 minutes
Format: DVD
Sound Format: Stereo
Rating: Not Rated
Country: U.S.
Language: English

VIRGIL FILMS & ENTERTAINMENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH
OWN: OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK PRESENTS THE HOME VIDEO DEBUT OF

CRIME AFTER CRIME

Available on DVD
April 24, 2012

The award-winning documentary, which has inspired an upcoming feature-length film adaptation, will make its DVD debut this Spring. Crime After Crime chronicles the dramatic legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman sentenced to life behind bars for her connection to the murder of her abuser. The inspiring film received critical acclaim nationwide, and more importantly, sparked global attention to the broken legal system between domestic violence and criminal justice.

At the time, California was the lone state with a law allowing incarcerated survivors of abuse to petition for their freedom. After its Sundance Film Festival premiere last year, Crime After Crime has inspired similar reforms in six more states, with New York’s proposed Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act leading the pack. The film continues to help put an end to similar situations, as in the case of State Senator Loretta Weinberg who announced at a NJ film screening that she would introduce legislation to help assist victims of wrongful incarceration and domestic violence.

After taking home 17 major film festivals, and television premiere on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, Crime After Crime, will be available on DVD beginning April 24, 2012 by Virgil Films & Entertainment. The disc will contain special bonus features including a featurette about the broader significance of the Debbie Peagler story, a Sundance Film Festival Q&A with the filmmaker and individuals in the documentary, deleted scenes, film crew bios, and information about Debbie’s Campaign, a nonprofit project to help prevent domestic violence and wrongful incarceration.

Crime After Crime
Street Date: April 24, 2012
SRP: $ 19.99

Synopsis
Crime After Crime tells the dramatic story of the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her. Her saga takes an unexpected turn two decades later when two rookie attorneys, with no background in criminal law, step forward to take her case. Through their perseverance, they bring to light long-lost witnesses, new testimonies from the men who committed the murder, and proof of perjured evidence. Their investigation ultimately attracts global attention to the victims of wrongful incarceration and abuse, and takes on profound urgency when the case becomes a matter of life and death once more.

Filming in and out of prison for over five years, filmmaker Yoav Potash methodically documented this story as it unfolded. With exclusive access to Debbie Peagler and her attorneys, Crime After Crime tells an unforgettable story of a relentless quest for justice.

*DVD Special Features:
• Special Introduction from Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O’Donnell
• Extended Scenes
• “Crime After Crime in Context” Featurette
• Q&A at the Sundance Film Festival
• Trailers
• Film Crew Bios
• Musician Bios
• Debbie’s Campaign
• Awards
• Press
• OWN Doc Club “Sizzle reel”

PROGRAM INFORMATION
Distributor: Virgil Films & Entertainment
Genre: Documentary
Director: Yoav Potash
Running Time: 92 minutes
Format: DVD
Sound Format: Stereo
Rating: Not Rated
Country: U.S.
Language: English

MUSIC BOX FILMS HOME ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES

YOUNG GOETHE IN LOVE

THE EARLY YEARS IN THE LIFE OF GERMANY’S REVERED WRITER, PHILOSOPHER AND POET JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE, AND THE UNREQUITED LOVE THAT INSPIRED HIM TO GREATNESS

Available on DVD and VOD
April 24, 2012

Chicago, IL (March 15, 2012) - Johann Wolfgang Goethe remains Germany’s most famous and important poet and philosopher, a mythic figure who has universally been regarded as a genius for more than 200 years. The inspiration that sparked Goethe’s rise to greatness is the subject of Young Goethe In Love, a beautifully innocent yet achingly insightful romantic drama about the 23-year-old Johann Goethe, his summer of self-discovery and unrequited love, and the birth of the first-ever literary superstar.

Featuring an all-star cast, including: Alexander Fehling (Inglourious Basterds), Moritz Bleibtreu (Much, Run Lola Run), Burghart Klaussner (The White Ribbon), and Volker Bruch (The Reader), Young Goethe In Love makes its DVD, VOD and Digital Download debut on April 24 (prebook March 20) by Music Box Films Home Entertainment. Released theatrically in 2011 to acclaim around the world and in the U.S.’s top markets, the DVD disc will carry special bonus features including a ‘Making Of’ featurette for the suggested retail price of $29.95.

Directed and co-written by acclaimed international filmmaker Philipp Stölzl (North Face), Young Goethe In Love follows the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Alexander Fehling) in 1772 as he struggles in his budding career as a lawyer even as he yearns to be a poet. After failing his law exams, he is sent by his father (Henry Huebchen) to the sleepy town of Wetzlar to toil as a law clerk and mend his ways. Soon after arriving, Johann meets the boisterous, crimson-tressed Lotte Buff (Miriam Stein), and the two fall in love. But their road to romance is filled with obstacles-employers to be obeyed, fathers to be heeded and duels to be contemplated-and hearts are destined to be broken. Such are the affairs of the heart and head that inspire a young poet-a poet who will soon go on to pen one his most vital and influential works.

Filmed against the backdrop of the gorgeous German countryside and filled with sumptuous 19th Century costumes and evocative scenery, Young Goethe In Love is as much a feast for the eyes and ears as it is for the heart and soul. A richly detailed historical flight of fancy in the tradition of such romantic period works as Amadeus and Shakespeare in Love, Young Goethe In Love offers “many period charms, fine actors and lovely landscapes” according to John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter, while Ben Sachs of Chicago Reader confirms that it contains “energetic lead performances.”

Enlightening, entertaining and unabashedly romantic, Young Goethe In Love offers an undeniably fresh and free-spirited look at the earlier years of one of the key figures of world literature.

More information on Young Goethe In Love can be found on the MUSIC BOX FILMS website at http://www.musicboxfilms.com/young-goethe-in-love and the film’s website at http://www.younggoetheinlove.com/.

Young Goethe In Love — Synopsis:
In Germany, 1772, the young and tumultuous Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Alexander Fehling) aspires to be poet. But after failing his law exams, he is sent by his father (Henry Huebchen) to a sleepy provincial court in the small town of Wetzlar to mend his ways. Unsure of his talent and eager to prove himself, Goethe soon wins the praise and friendship of his superior Kestner (Moritz Bleibtreu). Not long thereafter, the beautiful and exciting Lotte (Miriam Stein) enters his life and nothing is the same. But the young lovers are unaware that Lotte’s father has already promised her hand to another man, a reality that threatens to shatter the innocence of youth-while igniting Goethe’s heretofore unseen talents at the same time.

ABOUT MUSIC BOX FILMS:
Founded in 2007, Music Box Films has quickly established itself as one of the leading distributors of non-English language feature films in the US in theaters, on DVD and Blu-ray, and via Video-on-Demand. Music Box’s release of Guillaume Canet’s Tell No One was the most popular foreign-language film of 2008. In 2010, the film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s trilogy of international mega-sellers dominated the foreign-language film market: the first in the series, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was one of the most popular international releases of the decade with over $10 million in US box office. Music Box Films is independently owned and operated by the Southport Music Box Corporation, which also owns and operates The Music Box Theatre, Chicago’s premiere venue for independent and foreign films.

Young Goethe In Love
Music Box Films Home Entertainment
STREET DATE: April 24, 2012
Pre-book Date: March 20, 2012
Format: DVD
SRP: $29.95
Cast: Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein, Moritz Bleibtreu, Volker Bruch, Burghart Klaußner, Henry Hübchen
Director: Philipp Stölzl
Running Time: 102 minutes
Format: 2.35:1 widescreen
Sound Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Rating: NR

Country: German
Language: German with English subtitles

Bonus Features*

• The Making of Young Goethe In Love
• The Visual Effects of Goethe
• Theatrical and international trailer

Virgil Films & Entertainment in Conjunction with OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network Presents the Home Video Debut of

MISS REPRESENTATION

Available on DVD
April 10, 2012

Botox or sexual objectification - are these the only paths to success for women today? Are young women being brought up in a society where beauty overshadows the brain? The media plays an increasingly strong role in shaping today’s world, and the messages being sent to women by mainstream media, reality TV and our growing tabloid culture are dangerously limiting, leaving little room for smart, talented and creative women. These are the questions and issues behind the critically acclaimed documentary Miss Representation, which has sparked much conversation.

Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Miss Representation exposes the dire need to change the way women are portrayed through the media which makes it difficult for women and girls to see their leadership potential. The documentary provides an inspirational voice through conversations with teenage girls, advocates, entertainers, politicians, journalists, and academics.

Hailed as “inspiring” by Entertainment Weekly and “A relative and important doc” by The Hollywood Reporter, Miss Representation features interviews with Condoleezza Rice, Lisa Ling, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, and more as they examine media’s negative impact on society.

The film, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and aired on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, followed by a nationwide screening tour throughout film festivals, universities and institutions, makes its DVD debut on April 10th by Virgil Films & Entertainment.

Miss Representation
Street Date: April 10, 2012
SRP: $ 19.99

Synopsis
Written, directed and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.

In a society where media is the most persuasive force shaping cultural norms, the collective message that our young women and men overwhelmingly receive is that a woman’s value and power lie in her youth, beauty, and sexuality, and not in her capacity as a leader. While women have made great strides in leadership over the past few decades, the United States is still 90th in the world for women in national legislatures, women hold only three percent of clout positions in mainstream media, and 65 percent of women and girls report disordered eating behavior.

*DVD Special Features:
• The Doc Club with Rosie O’Donnell
• Special Introduction from Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O’Donnell
• Promo scenes
• Coming Attractions