The Utah Film Awards has partnered up with several distribution companies worldwide to help sell fantastic films. These companies will be part of the judging committee to help select the nominees and winners. The are looking for features, shorts and series. You can enter the Utah Film Awards HERE.
SHORTS INTERNATIONAL LTD is the world’s leading short movie entertainment company with the world’s largest catalogue dedicated to short movies. We bring the best short movies to our audiences in the United States, Europe and Asia whether they are in movie cinemas, watching cable / satellite television, using their iPads or online.
Theatrical Release: Since 2006, Shorts International has produced the OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORT FILM theatrical release and distributed it to cinemas across North America, Europe, Africa and Australia.
Satellite & Cable TV: Since 2007, SHORTSTV and SHORTSHD have entertained audiences in the US and Europe with some of the best short movies on TV. SHORTSTHD is carried in the US on DIRECTV and AT&T. SHORTSTV is available across EMEA.
Shorts™ on iTunes: Shorts™ were one of iTunes earliest movie partners, bringing hundreds of the world’s best independent shorts to the iTunes audience, years before the iTunes Movie Store launched. The films are now available in 54 countries worldwide.
The company is headquartered in London, and is represented in the United States by Shorts Entertainment Networks, a wholly owned subsidiary, located in Santa Monica, California. It is majority owned by Shorts Entertainment Holdings with AMC Networks, as a significant minority shareholder.
SHORTS ENTERTAINMENT NETWORKS Inc is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shorts International Ltd and provides marketing and acquisitions consulting services. It is incorporated in the State of Delaware and has offices in Santa Monica, CA.
SHORTSHD™ is the first high definition channel dedicated to short movies and is available in the US on DirecTV (Channel 568) and AT&T U-verse (Channel 1789).
SHORTSTV™ is a pay TV channel available across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
SHORTS STUDIOS™, the Company’s production arm, is dedicated to creating innovative short movie content for brands. Our previous work includes productions for SONY® PlayStation® and NIKE™. Shorts Studios also produces shows for the SHORTSTV networks.
Arclight Releasing is a full service music and movie distribution company, exclusively representing thousands of audio and visual products for DVD, Blu-ray, CD, and digital rights worldwide.
Arclight Releasing represents a commitment to the interests of the musicians, filmmakers, record labels, producers, managers, and every link in the supply chain. The customers are the Audience, from wholesalers, sub-distributors, major retail chains, online retailers, specialists, and independent mom and pop stores, all the way to the consumer. Arclight Releasing was founded in 2001 by entertainment entrepreneurs. Arclight Releasing acquired vast catalogs of distributors and released them in both physical and digital distribution gaining a solid place in the catalogs of the industry. Arclight stays on the cutting edge of new media with a huge catalog of audio and visual digital rights, and by nurturing its direct relationships with the major digital and VOD platforms. Arclight works with a variety of up-and-coming platforms as well and actively pursues new relationships.
Arclight continues to look for new and exciting content and sees a bright future in the entertainment business. Serving artists and audiences, the driving principle at Arclight, allows us to consider a wide spectrum of opportunities and change with this ever evolving industry.
The Company All Rights Entertainment is a company founded by professionals with vast experience in international business, mainly in the marketing, release and distribution of films and audiovisual content. We are currently representing more than 20 new features films every year, and many documentaries and series, and a library of more than 120 titles. Recently, our represented title as “Revenge: A Love Story” has won The Best Director of Silver George and The Second Diploma of Russian Film Critics in 33rd Moscow Film Festival 2011, or our new feature animation 3D “Dragon Nest Rise Of The Black Dragon”, adapted from the Blockbuster game Dragon Nest. Mission To position, release and distribute films and audio-visual productions predominantly produced in European and Asian regions, through our sales team, business partners, client-portfolio, contact networks and joint ventures in all five continents. A wide range of independent productions can be found in our rapidly increasing catalogue. Our core product consists of feature films, documentaries and series. Beliefs We strongly believe that the new world is being constructed by everyone’s work, from the individual to the society as a whole. This belief is a necessary step to achieving an integrated society in a diverse and globalized world. Our communication tool, is the production that reflects us. We want to change and encourage the growing opening of the global public, to watch production that not only use traditional American story models, and budgets. We do our best to support quality independent films, and need partners like you to develop our network. It will be our pleasure to keep you informed directly of all our new exciting projects and acquisitions.
Based in the heart of Hollywood, VMI Worldwide is an international sales, film finance, and production company founded in 2010 by Andre Relis.
Since its inception, VMI has represented an extensive variety of cast-driven titles including pictures starring Jesse Eisenberg, Wesley Snipes, Aaron Paul, Sean Bean, Dolph Lundgren, Melissa Leo, Mena Suvari, Juliette Lewis, Chloe Sevigny, Willem Dafoe, Minnie Driver, Michael Shannon, Abigail Breslin, Jackie Chan and many other actors with both domestic and foreign value.
In the past four years, VMI has moved aggressively into production. VMI productions started off with Blood of Redemption starring Dolph Lundgren and Vinnie Jones (2013) and Wicked Blood starring Sean Bean, Abigail Breslin, and James Purefoy (2014) which were both distributed and co produced by Entertainment One in North America.
VMI’s third film War Pigs stars Mickey Rourke, and Luke Goss (2015) will be released theatrically by Cinedigm in the US as part of a multi-picture output deal with Cinedigm for North American distribution for in-house productions.
TomCat Films LLC is a vertically integrated film sales, licensing and distribution company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona and affiliate locations in Beverly Hills, California, New York City, New York, and Selangor, Malaysia.
The company specializes in the sub-distribution and licensing of film and TV product to buyers, distributors, broadcasters and industry participants.
TomCat Films attends all the major film markets including the American Film Market, European Film Market in Berlin, Hong Kong Filmart and the Cannes Film Festival.
The company distributes over 100 feature films with distribution deals in place worldwide. Many of TomCat’s films can be seen on Netflix, InDemand, Family Video, Best Buy, Amazon and other establishments in the U.S./Canada and around the world.
Covenant Communications is an independent publisher of novels, nonfiction, music, spoken audio and films. Covenant Communications seeks inspirational films and has a great love for indie films that include past Utah Film Award winners; Inspired Guns, Saint Street, Christmas Oranges, Redemption, and many more.
Based in San Francisco, Wonderphil Entertainment is a Worldwide Sales Agent and Production Company of feature films & documentaries. Our products range from no budget to $3 million. We carry all genres of feature films: Action/Comedy/Drama/Horror. We sell some films because we feel the films are marketable and we sell other films simply because we feel the films are important pieces that need to be seen.
Screen Media Ventures, LLC, a Delaware limited liability corporation, was formed in May 1999. Screen Media acquires and distributes motion pictures to television stations, cable networks, and home video outlets throughout the world.
Screen Media’s library currently consists of over 900 motion pictures. Screen Media’s sales efforts are focused in four primary areas: •U.S. Home Video •International Television and Video •U.S. Television and Cable •New Media In the U.S., Screen Media has launched over 16 syndication packages of motion pictures to broadcast television stations on both a cash and barter basis making Screen Media the largest independent supplier of motion pictures to the U.S. broadcast markets.
In addition, Screen Media licenses programming to basic and pay cable outlets including HBO, Showtime, Starz, Turner, Lifetime, A&E, Encore, Sci-Fi Channel, Court TV, Hallmark, and U.S.A. Networks. Internationally, Screen Media’s distribution activities cover all media throughout the world.
The Company’s client base includes broadcasters, video distributors and new media providers with high visibility at every industry trade show, including NATPE, Berlin, The American Film Market, MIP-TV, MIPCOM, DISCOP, the Asian Television Forum, and the Cannes Film Festival.
As one of the largest independent suppliers of motion pictures to the international market, Screen Media is a source of high-performance titles with proven box-office and strong cast appeal, including stars such as Keanu Reeves, Antonio Banderas, Paul Newman, Mike Myers, Penelope Cruz, Susan Sarandon, Melanie Griffith, Al Pacino, Jude Law, Kim Basinger, Kevin Bacon, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Jean-Claude van Damme, Robin Williams and Patrick Swayze.
In 2001, Screen Media launched its home video label, Screen Media Films. Universal Studios Home Entertainment is Screen Media’s primary distributor. To date, the Company has released more than 80 titles including: Noel starring Susan Sarandon and Penelope Cruz Loverboy starring Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick and Matt Dillon One Last Dance starring Patrick Swayze Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber starring Jennifer Love Hewitt Strange Bedfellows starring Paul Hogan and Chilly Dogs starring Leslie Nielsen.
Launched in 2000, Excel Entertainment (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deseret Book Company) has generated nearly $39,000,000 in revenue from its film properties over the years.
It is the preeminent independent film distribution company in Utah, and though largely known for its Mormon-themed films (God’s Army, The Work & the Glory series, 17 Miracles, Pride & Prejudice, etc.), Excel has also had success releasing films with non-Mormon themes and stories (Forever Strong, Saints & Soldiers, etc.).
Although the technology and means by which audiences consume films is changing rapidly, the demand for highly creative storytelling that motivates us to live up to the light that each of us has been given is as high as ever. We feel a deep obligation to not only bring stories of hope to the world, but to promote films with high standards of craftsmanship reflective of a belief in a divine and benevolent creator.
As the market continues to express its desire for diverse entertainment, Shoreline Entertainment is dedicated to satisfying those needs. By producing several films a year, and acquiring many others, Shoreline ensures there will always be new products available. Shoreline delivers high caliber films that span several genres, and with a selection that satisfies ever-evolving needs, Shoreline is a reliable source for distributors around the world in search of quality independent cinema. Buyers can rest assured they are building a long-term relationship with a stable company whose business ethics remains the same — First class business, with first class people.
6 SALES is an international Sales Agency based in Madrid and Barcelona. Founded by Marina Fuentes in 2006 the company aims to help producers finance their projects and find world wide distribution. 6 SALES strives to achieve the following: passion and commitment when bringing the films to the markets and festivals while understanding the project needs of distributors and producing timely and easily understood reporting for the producers. Not an easy task but we do out best to succeed every day.
Raven Banner Entertainment is a boutique agency that represents and produces innovative and compelling genre films for North American distribution and the international marketplace. Raven Banner Entertainment is based out of Toronto, CANADA.
Cedar Fort Publishing & Media is a print and media distribution company located in Springlike Utah. It is the mission of Cedar Fort to gather and develop life-enhancing and inspiring ideas and products, and convey them to our customers in the most professional, friendly and efficient manner while providing for our families.
Osiris Entertainment is a full service distribution company providing content to International and Domestic Theatrical, Broadcast, PPV, Home Video/DVD, Online/Download & Mobile channels. Osiris is actively seeking completed feature films, documentaries, Television programming and direct to DVD special interest programs for exclusive license.
At Osiris Entertainment we understand that all great entertainment is a form of translation of life, and history. We require the importance of drawing real human emotion for each film we are a part of. We understand that means all the difference to the producer, and most importantly the consumer that takes part in escaping their own life for a period of time. We are selling fantasies, truths, and dreams. Osiris employees recognize the importance of dreams. Dreams mean nothing unless you put them into action. We understand that in order for dreams to solidify into reality, we must have the ability, and insight, to see the light around the corner in the dark. Osiris demands that each of its employees defy all odds in order to achieve dreams.
Founded in 1997 and based in Sherman Oaks, CA, Vision Films is an independent worldwide Distributor of Feature Films, Documentary Specials, Series, Music and Reality Programming. We license all available rights from Theatrical, DVD/Blu-Ray, Television and VOD/Digital Media rights to both the International and Domestic marketplaces. We currently handle a library of over 500 Feature Films, 500 Documentaries and 100 different Music Programs from some of the most prolific independent film producers in the world.
Roman Kopelevich is the CEO and founder of Red Sea Media, Inc. and its genre label Dead Sea Media. The company was founded in December 2011 with Roman Viaris with investment from Russian Investors, Vadim Gorainov and Svetlana Snitko.
Red Sea’s slate includes Beyond Skyline, directed by Liam O’Donnell, with VFX by Hydraulx (San Andreas, Avengers, Looper, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides); The 7th Tear, a science fiction adventure film produced by Brett Ratner and Greg & Colin Strause; AIP Universe, a cinematic universe that will reinvent 10 classic titles produced by Lou Arkoff (Inspector Gadget), Jeff Katz (Wolverine, Freddy vs Jason, Snakes on a Plane), and Hal Sadoff (CEO of Joel Silver Pictures); Squirrels produced by Timur Bekmambetov (director of Ben Hur, Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), Four Towers, starring Rudger Hauer and Steven Seagal; the science fiction supernatual film, Chimera; and Gridlocked, directed by Allan Ungar and produced by Cody Hackman.
We are a boutique film production and film services company specializing in sales representation, consulting and film finance. In addition to our catalog of films in all genres represented as a sales agent, Adler & Associates is currently developing a slate of feature films to be ready in 2016, with a particular focus on action and family features.
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