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Fisher Klingenstein Films is a film acquisition and distribution company headed by producer/financiers Danny Fisher, Jack Fisher and Alan Klingenstein. Danny and Jack Fisher were the founders of the film and television company City Lights Media. Alan Klingenstein, formerly head of Filbert Steps Productions, produced films such as Two Family House which won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, and Trumbo.

The company acquires feature films, documentaries and television series for distribution in all media, including theatrical release, television syndication, DVD sales, and digital distribution.

Theatrical Releases

Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace

The company’s first theatrical release was Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace, which opened on opened on September 16, 2011. Produced by Matthew Tollin and Arick Wierson and directed by Harry Hunkele, the film traced the peace process between Egypt and Israel.

OC 87

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Fisher Klingenstein Films released OC 87 in in June of 2012. It depicts a middle-aged man who, after suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder for over twenty years, embarks on a path to recovery. He comes to define 'recovery' as life with, and despite, this illness.

The New York Times called it “a moving, penetrating documentary” and designated it as a “New York Times Critics’ Pick.”

New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick wrote that “Clayman, who has a winning sense of humor, reconnects with people he knew in college, before his problems resulted in a raft of diagnoses, and even gives speed-dating a whirl. Through it all, Clayman struggles to keep himself, and OC87, on track — and it’s easy to cheer his ultimate triumph.”

The New York Daily News called it "unique, enlightening...Clayman, who co-directed with filmmaker friends, is fascinating company."

The Village Voice wrote: “A largely first-person documentary about living with a range of disorders, OC87 is also, in a sense, about a long hiatus from moviemaking…(it)stands as moving evidence that Clayman's trust in the value of the filmmaking process ultimately outweighed the extreme difficulty he says he has making even the smallest decisions.”

Hollywood Reporter found OC 87 “an eye-opener about what it's like to live with a variety of mental illnesses, including obsessive-compulsive disorder -- and, however tenuously, to recover from them. Word-of-mouth should be good for a niche theatrical release, and the mental-health community should ensure legs on video.”

"It's heartening to observe what can be achieved," said the Huffington Post, as Buddy "so honestly, modestly and touchingly portrays in this documentary about himself."

Film Journal International hailed it as "an insightful look into the world of the mentally disturbed - by a filmmaker who is also his own subject."

New models of film distribution

Fisher Klingenstein reports that it distributes DVD through Walmart, Best Buy, Target, K-Mart, Rite Aid and Barnes & Noble; on digital platforms such as Amazon Instant Watch, Netflix Streaming, iTunes, Hulu, Vudu, xBox, Sony PlayStation and others; as well as releasing theatrically, making international sales and licensing to domestic television.

The company announced that it sold over two million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, with titles such as Alec Baldwin starrer Brooklyn Rules and Gardens of the Night starring John Malkovich.

The company has also indicated that it has grown its strategic partnerships and retail outlets, including an output licensing agreement with Amazon for its new Prime subscription service, where it is releasing television series such as Discovery Kids' Popular Mechanics for Kids.

Fisher Klingenstein revealed it had entered into an agreement to release on Amazon over 400 movie and television titles, many of which are from the library of a major Hollywood studio.

Currently, the company has said its goal is to aggressively acquire new content, whether one-off deals or complete libraries, in all genres: movies, documentaries, television series and special interest.

References

1. IMDB, Danny Fisher
2. IMDB, Jack Fisher
3. IMDB, Alan Klingenstein
4. IMDB, Sundance Film Festival (Audience Award)
5. IMDB, National Board of Review (Freedom of Expression Award)
6. ^ PRNewswire (June 21, 2011). "Fisher Klingenstein Films Acquires 'Back Door Channels – The Price of Peace'" (Press release). RedOrbit.
7. Fisher Klingenstein Lands OC 87 Variety. March 5, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2012
8. Filmmaker Puts His Mental Illness on Screen New York Times. May 24, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
9. Movie review: OC 87 New York Post. May 24, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
10. Movie review: OC 87 gets into the life and head of a sufferer of Asperger's syndrome New York Daily News. May 24, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
11. OC 87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie Village Voice. May 23, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2013
12. Film review: OC 87 Hollywood Reporter. June 6, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
13. OC 87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie Huffington Post. June 4, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
14. http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/content_display/reviews/specialty-releases/e3i14d44d1fc742e291f7bf7168200ad365
15. ^ Broadway World, Fisher-Klingenstein Films Movie Studio; Retrieved October 4, 2013
16. ^ PR Newswire (Oct 5, 2011). ""Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace" to Air on Public Television Nationwide Beginning January 2012" (Press release). The Business Journals.

External links

• Official Website

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• Television companies
• Television syndication distributors
• Internet broadcasting