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Eurocinema, Nima Entertainment Ink VOD Deal for Iranian Films
LOS ANGELES, October 30: Eurocinema, a branded on-demand service featuring European theatrical films, has inked an exclusive deal with Nima Entertainment, a representative of The Iranian Film Society, to bring feature titles from Iran to North American audiences.
The new content will premiere this month through February 2008. The films include Two Women (2000), a selection for the Fourth Annual Roger Ebert Overlooked Film Festival, portraying a meeting between two friends from Tehran University who lose contact during the Islamic Revolution and meet again during the present day. It will be accompanied by the short Hide Your Words, about the lives and dreams of two Iranian sisters. Also available through Eurocinema is Twilight, about a veteran police inspector who heads down a path of self-discovery as he unravels a murder case; the comedy Corrupted Hands, about a pair of longtime friends who are not only business partners, but are also wedding planners, and Soul Mates, about a man recovering from a mental illness who meets a woman and falls in love with her. The two marry on a whim, and decide to take a devil-may-care attitude to life that leads them spinning off on numerous adventures. All of the films are versioned in the Farsi language, with English subtitles.
Launched in 2005, Eurocinema is owned by EuroMedia Holdings Corp. The service can now be found in key cities across the U.S. on Charter, Time Warner, Mediacom, Bresnan Communications, Buckeye Communications and Atlantic Broadband, as well as on Shaw Communications in Canada. Recently added operators include Blue Water Mountain Cable (Hamilton, Ontario), Westman Cable (Manitoba), OneLink (San Juan, Puerto Rico), Guam Cablevision and MTAVision (Alaska), as well as telcos such as Verizon, North Dakota and Telephone Century Tel. Eurocinema will soon be available on all major North America satellite platforms.
"We're thrilled to bring some of the top Farsi language feature films to Iranians living in North America via video on demand," said Larry Namer, the head of U.S. operations for Eurocinema. "The first titles we have added to our content offerings represent the best in recent Iranian cinema. While the 1.2 million Iranians living in North America will certainly take note of these incredibly high quality films, we think that with today's global political situation general audiences will also be fascinated to look behind the curtain that has cloaked Iran. Of course, foreign film aficionados will also get to see some very exciting new filmmakers tackling very complex subjects under amazingly difficult conditions. For Eurocinema, this is a warm up to offering a full VOD service based on Persian and Arabic films sometime next year."
—By Irene Lew