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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

The company’s first theatrical release was Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace. Produced by Matthew Tollin and Arick Wierson and directed by ten-time Emmy Award-winning director Harry Hunkele, the film traced the interplay between official government channels and the men who acted largely behind the scenes of the peace process between Egypt and Israel – men who risked everything, even their lives – in the pursuit of peace.

Back Door Channels opened on September 16, 2011, at the Quad Theater in New York City. It rolled out to the Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills and other theaters in Los Angeles on October 14, 2011, and expanded to San Francisco, Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia and additional markets throughout the autumn of 2011.

In its review of the film, Variety called Back Door Channels “riveting” and “enthralling.”

The New York Times found it "a well-reported history of the Camp David talks, the events that led to them, and the difficult negotiations that followed to forge the peace treaty that was signed the next spring…using interviews with more than two dozen involved parties, including Mr. Carter, the film pays particular attention to the behind-the-scenes communications among nongovernment officials who helped the peace process along when official representatives could not.”

Another film released by Fisher Klingenstein Films in June 2012 was OC 87. It depicts how Bradford (Buddy) Clayman, a middle-aged man who suffered an obsessive-compulsive disorder for over 20 years, was finally able to enter a path of recovery. Over the years, Buddy 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

External videos
You can view a Fisher Klingenstein trailer for the film Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace here

External videos
You can view a Fisher Klingenstein trailer for the film OC 87 here

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. 2008 NY NATAS Emmy Press Release
8. 2009 NY Natas Official Emmy Winners Press Release
9. "AFRICAN AMERICAN PRODUCER DEBUTS DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT 1979 MIDDLE EAST PEACE TREATY" (Press release). Mozaic Media + Communications.
10. "Peace" Doc Rollout Set Variety. June 21, 2011. Retrieved May 23, 2013
11. Review: Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace Variety. November 8, 2010. Retrieved May 23, 2010
12. Movie review: Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace New York Times. Sept. 15, 2011. Retrieved May 23, 2013
13. Fisher Klingenstein Lands OC 87 Variety. March 5, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2012
14. Filmmaker Puts His Mental Illness on Screen New York Times. May 24, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
15. Movie review: OC 87 New York Post. May 24, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
16. 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.
17. OC 87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie Village Voice. May 23, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2013
18. Film review: OC 87 Hollywood Reporter. June 6, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
19. OC 87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie Huffington Post. June 4, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
20. http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/content_display/reviews/specialty-releases/e3i14d44d1fc742e291f7bf7168200ad365
21. ^ Broadway World, Fisher-Klingenstein Films Movie Studio; Retrieved October 4, 2013
22. ^ 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

• Film companies
• Film distributors
• Television companies
• Television syndication distributors
• Internet broadcasting