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(Billboard) Beastie Boy Adam Yauch is launching indie film distribution and international sales company Oscilloscope Pictures, a new arm of his music and film production outfit, Oscilloscope Laboratories. Former ThinkFilm vp David Fenkel is set to run the unit.
Yauch and Fenkel plan to acquire narrative and documentary features from festivals for release in the U.S. and provide funds to complete and release unfinished films.
The pair, who worked on Yauch's Beastie Boys docu "Awesome! I ****in' Shot That!" at ThinkFilm, will complete all postproduction and marketing work from OL's downtown Manhattan production space. Fenkel's fellow ThinkFilm alumni Dan Berger is joining them in the venture.
"We're kind of winging it," said Yauch, who has recorded albums, produced "Awesome" and created ads out of the 8,000-square-foot office since 2002. He plans on releasing two to 10 films in the first year, and without any outside financial backing for the self-financed venture, hopes to make deals where the filmmakers share the risk.
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Yauch and Fenkel plan to acquire narrative and documentary features from festivals for release in the U.S. and provide funds to complete and release unfinished films.
The pair, who worked on Yauch's Beastie Boys docu "Awesome! I ****in' Shot That!" at ThinkFilm, will complete all postproduction and marketing work from OL's downtown Manhattan production space. Fenkel's fellow ThinkFilm alumni Dan Berger is joining them in the venture.
"We're kind of winging it," said Yauch, who has recorded albums, produced "Awesome" and created ads out of the 8,000-square-foot office since 2002. He plans on releasing two to 10 films in the first year, and without any outside financial backing for the self-financed venture, hopes to make deals where the filmmakers share the risk.
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