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DISTRIBUTION Italy

Distribuzione Indipendente presents its 2013 list

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- Horror sci-fi film The Ghostmaker by Mauro Borrelli will be the season’s first film. G Movie to be launched to fight piracy, half way between free press and home video

Horror sci-fi film The Ghostmaker (photo) by Mauro Borrelli will inaugurate the 2013 season for Distribuzione Indipendente, the Italian distribution company known for its art house and genre films, loved in domestic and international film festivals, but rarely released in cinemas.

The low budget, Italian-American coproduction was directed by a man who can vaunt having worked with such big names as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam and Gore Verbinski. The Ghostmaker stars three friends who, thanks to a sophisticated fifteenth century machine manage to experience death and then reverse it by going back in time. The film, which is currently being shown in German cinemas and is out on DVD (with colossal Lionsgate) in the United States, will be coming out on January 4 in Distribuzione Indipendente’s fifteen cinemas (for a list of them, click here).

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D.I. will be launching six films in all – one a month – in the first half of 2013: after The Ghostmaker, documentary Vietato morire by Teo Takahashi will be released. The documentary traces four stories of drug addicts in a recovery community in Rome (coming out on February 15). W Zappatore by Massimiliano Verdesca, will then follow. The gothic comedy stars Sandra Milo wearing never seen before metalhead clothes (15 March). British comedy Bomber [+see also:
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by Paul Cotter will be coming out on April 19,  Beket by Davide Manuli,  a road movie version of Waiting for Godot is scheduled for 17 May, and collective horror film in episodes P.O.E Poetry of Eerie will come out on June 7.

But next year’s true newcomer will be G Movie, D.I.’s new project which will distribute DVDs from its list and other cult genre films for free. “A mix between free press and home video,” the creators explained.  The Ghostmaker will once more be the one to start things off: 20,000 copies will be landing across Italy end of January in cinemas, libraries, art galleries and public places (in Rome, the film will also be handed out with Miss Pizza home deliveries). Special attention has been given to packaging (every film will have a cover designed by an Italian illustrator) and the publicity material that will come with it. The aim is to combat piracy, “free against free.”

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(Translated from Italian)

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