Zeitgeist Films

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Zeitgeist Films is an American independent film distributor

based in New York City founded in 1988 by co-Presidents Zeitgeist Films
Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo. Films distributed by
Zeitgeist are strongly auteur-driven by directors such as
Christopher Nolan, Guy Maddin, Atom Egoyan, Todd Haynes,
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Olivier Assayas, Abbas Kiarostami, Deepa
Mehta, Jan vankmajer and the Brothers Quay. The expansive
Zeitgeist film library includes Trouble the Water, The
Corporation, Jellyfish, Examined Life, Into Great Silence, Ten
and Irma Vep. In June 2008, the 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.[1]
Zeitgeist Films logo
Type Privately held company

Contents Industry Film distribution

Founded June, 1988
1 Selected films Founders Nancy Gerstman
2 Awards Emily Russo
3 References
4 External links Headquarters New York City
Key people Adrian Curry
Taso Georgakis
Selected films Website zeitgeistfilms.com (http://www.zeit
geistfilms.com)
Year Title
2015 Court
2015 Every Last Child
2015 Forbidden Films
2014 Diplomacy
2014 Rocks in My Pockets
2014 Siddharth
2014 The Galapagos Affair
2014 Child's Pose
The Pervert's Guide to
2013
Ideology
2013 Let the Fire Burn
2013 Hannah Arendt
One Track Heart: The
2013
Story of Krishna Das
2012 Uprising
2012 Let My People Go!
2012 Koch
Gregory Crewdson:
2012
Brief Encounters
2012 Elena
2012 The Salt of Life
2012 China Heavyweight
2012 Payback
2011 Something Ventured
Paul Goodman
2011
Changed My Life
2011 The Tree
2011 !Women Art Revolution
2011 Queen to Play
Bill Cunningham New
2011
York
2010 Vision
2010 Last Train Home
2010 Mid-August Lunch
2010 The Oath
Notes
July, 2015 U.S. theatrical release date
June, 2015 U.S. theatrical release date
May, 2015 U.S. theatrical release date
October, 2014 U.S. theatrical release date
September, 2014 U.S. theatrical release date
June, 2014 U.S. theatrical release date
April, 2014 U.S. theatrical release date
February, 2014 U.S. theatrical release date
November, 2013 U.S. theatrical release date
October, 2013 U.S. theatrical release date
May 29, 2013 U.S. theatrical release date
May 8, 2013 U.S. theatrical release date
December, 2012 U.S. premiere and Golden Eagle winner at CINE competition
January 11, 2013 U.S. theatrical release date
October 8, 2012 premiere at Hamptons International Film Festival, U.S. release in
February 2013
October 31, 2012 U.S. theatrical release date
May 16, 2012 U.S. theatrical release date
March 2, 2012 U.S. theatrical release date
January 20, 2012 premiere at Sundance Film Festival
January 20, 2012 premiere at Sundance Film Festival, U.S. release in April 2012
Premiered April 24, 2011 at the San Francisco International Film Festival
October 19, 2011 U.S. theatrical release date
2010 Cannes Film Festival Closing Night Film, Premiered at the 2010 Sydney
Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival
Official Selection, Berlin International Film Festival Official Selection
Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection, Palm Springs International Film Festival
Special Mention for John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature
New Directors/New Films Festival Official Selection, Sydney Film Festival Best
Documentary Film
Toronto International Film Festival Official Selection
Sundance Film Festival Official Selection
Venice Film Festival Best First Film, Best Italian Film Award. London Film
Festival Satyajit Ray Award
Sundance Film Festival Best Cinematography Award: US Documentary, Berlin
International Film Festival Official Selection
2009 A Town Called Panic Cannes Film Festival Official Selection, Fantastic Festival Audience Award
2009 Act of God Hot Docs Opening Night Gala
2009 Earth Days Sundance Film Festival Closing Night Film
2009 The Horse Boy Winner South by Southwest Audience Award
The Sun Behind the
2009 Winner Palm Springs International Film Festival Best of the Fest award
Clouds
Sundance Film Festival People's Choice Award (the World Cinema Audience
2009 Afghan Star Award for a Documentary) and Best Director for a Documentary (the World
Cinema Directing Award)
2008 Trouble the Water Academy Award for Documentary Feature nominee
2008 Tulpan Kazakhstan's Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Language Film
Turkey's Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Language Film, directed by
2008 Three Monkeys
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Best Director Award Cannes Film Festival 2008
Harlan - In the Shadow
2008
of Jew Sss
2008 Fados
Louise Bourgeois: The
2008 Spider, the Mistress
and the Tangerine
2008 Examined Life directed by Astra Taylor, featuring Cornel West,
Stranded: I've Come
from a Plane that
2008
Crashed in the
Mountains
2008 Best Feature Documentary San Francisco International Film Festival, 2009
2008 Up the Yangtze Canadian Oscar Genie Award for Best Documentary, and 2008 Asian Oscar
Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards for Best Documentary.
2007 Jellyfish Camera dOr
Chris & Don: A Love
2007
Story
2007 Billy the Kid Winner South by Southwest Jury Prize
Manufactured
2006
Landscapes
2006 Into Great Silence Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize
My Country, My
2006 documentary about Iraq under U.S. occupation by Laura Poitras
Country
Sophie Scholl The
2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nominee
Final Days
2005 Ballets Russes
2004 The Corporation
2002 Derrida San Francisco Film Festival Golden Gate Award
2002 Nowhere in Africa Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
1997 See the Sea
1993 Blue Final feature film of director Derek Jarman
Manufacturing
Consent: Noam
1993 Featuring Noam Chomsky
Chomsky and the
Media
1992 Careful Directed by Guy Maddin
1991 Poison Sundance Grand Jury Prize, directed by Todd Haynes

Awards
Trouble the Water 2008 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature
Tulpan Kazakhstan's 2009 Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Language Film
Three Monkeys Turkey's 2009 Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Language Film
Into Great Silence 2006 Sundance Special Jury Prize
Nowhere in Africa 2002 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days 2005 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
Taste of Cherry 1997 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival
Poison 1991 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1996 re-release) Academy Award nominee, Palme d'Or winner (1964)

References
1. "Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Time" (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/611). MoMA. Retrieved 17 July 2013.

External links
Official website (http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/)
Zeitgeist Films (http://www.imdb.com/company/co0078470/?ref_=fn_al_co_1) at IMDb
Zeitgeist Films (https://www.facebook.com/ZeitgeistFilms/) at Facebook
Zeitgeist Films (http://zeitgeistfilms.tumblr.com/) at Tumblr
Zeitgeist Films (https://twitter.com/zeitgeistfilms) at Twitter
Zeitgeist Films (https://instagram.com/zeitgeistfilms/) at Instagram

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