In The NewsPage Ostrow - FLAUNT MAGThe phone rings — it rings a lot at Ostrow & Co. It’s the director of a human rights film festival in Geneva, calling about Juvies, a Mark Wahlberg-narrated documentary about teenagers in adult prisons. Read full article... "BEHIND FORGOTTEN EYES" WINS HAMPTONS INT. FILM FESTIVALThe ground-breaking documentary "Behind Forgotten Eyes," directed by Anthony Gilmore and produced by Alex Ferrari In Association with Ostrow and Company WON BEST FILM in the Conflict & Resolution Competition beating out some very big Hollywood heavyweights. Read full article... Page Ostrow - Judge at the Accolade Film AwardsPage Ostrow is a heroine to independent filmmakers. She has a reputation for taking risks on projects, creating a sense of urgency, igniting bidding wars and putting independent filmmakers on the map. Ostrow has helped gain financing and distribution for over 150 feature films and documentaries. She is one of Los Angeles’s leading producer’s representatives. Read full article... Meet Page OstrowDo you care deeply about righting the wrongs in the world and easing human suffering? Then you must catch one or more of the films brought to market by Page Ostrow, founder of Ostrow and Company (www.ostrowandcompany.com). Read full article... Producing an Impact: Money talks when Page Ostrow believes in a box office hit!Somewhere between Michael Moore and Al Gore, Hollywood started paying more attention to socially-relevant, politically ambitious documentaries and feature films. Big names started making pet projects and unknowns found financing to get their visions up on the big screen. Read full article... Page Ostrow speaks at Goodmans Presents: The Business of Filmmaking, CanadianFilmmaker.comJoin fellow WIFT-T members and a sampling of professionals from the filmmaking industry as they share their stories at an exclusive panel on Wednesday, September 6, 2006. Read full article... Ostrow, MarVista agree terms on Surfer KingProducers representative Page Ostrow has closed an international distribution deal for Bernard Murray's teen comedy The Surfer King with Los Angeles-based MarVista Entertainment. MarVista will handle international theatrical, television and video distribution on the story, which stars Lindsay Wagner, Randy Wayne, Ben Ziff, Alan Thicke, and Cerina Vincent. Read full article... Page Ostrow Speaks At United Nations - FilmThreatBenecio Del Torro delivers awards at the United Nations to filmmakers who have devoted their lives to important social issues globally seen here with Page Ostrow at the United Nations Filmmakers reception in Manhattan this past Saturday night. Based in Los Angeles, Ostrow has developed a reputation as one of the most reputable producers representatives devoted to representing socially conscious films. Read full article... Film Distribution Heat On Eleven MinutesA skillfully crafted, highly entertaining docu about process, personality and perception, "Eleven Minutes" revolves around the charismatic Jay McCarroll, the first "Project Runway" winner, in his real-world bid for fashion fame and fortune. McCarroll's media... Read full article... CANNES 2006: Ostrow closes six figure advance for 'Dating Games People Play'Producer/Distributor New Films International (NFI) has acquired international rights to the romantic comedy DATING GAMES PEOPLE PLAY from Page Ostrow, founder and president of Ostrow and Company, it was announced today by NFI Executive Ron Gell. Read full article... "The Surfer King" Rides Distribution Wave - Film ThreatPage Ostrow of Ostrow and Company has closed an International distribution deal for the teen comedy “The Surfer King” with MarVista Entertainment for a sizable advance. MarVista will handle International theatrical, television and video distribution. Read full article... Ostrow and Company To Handle All Rights For "The Child Within"Los Angeles, CA August 7, 2006 -- Ostrow and Company has been retained by producers Luchia Dragosh, Tevin Adelman and Sharzad Davani to handle all rights for their dramatic feature film "The Child Within". The producers met Page Ostrow, founder of Ostrow and Company, when Page spoke on panels at both the Boston Film Festival and The United Nations Documentary Film Festival. Producer, writer/director and star of film, Luchia Dragosh says, ?Page stood out as a rep who has extensive experience in negotiating films with sensitive themes. We are thrilled to be working with Page and her team. Read full article... El Inmigrante reviewed - VarietyDocumentaries about illegal aliens crossing over from Mexico are plentiful these days as the national debate over immigration waxes hotter. What distinguishes "El Inmigrante" is less the dramatic shooting death and miscarriage of justice at its center than the unusual sensitivity and openness of filmmakers John Sheedy, David Eckenrode and John Eckenrode to the distinctive rhythms and belief systems of people on both sides of the border. Arrestingly composed docu, well traveled on the fest circuit, should safely emigrate to cable. Read full article... Award Winning Page Ostrow To Speak At The United Nations Documentary Film FestivalAward-winning veteran entertainment executive Page Ostrow is scheduled to give a presentation at the 2nd Annual United Nations Documentary Film Festival in New York City on Sunday, April 23rd, 2006 at the Tishman Auditorium, The New School, 66 West 12th Street. The festival is presented in corporation with The New School. Read full article... Page Ostrow to give presentation at United Nations Film FestivalFilm is arguably the most influential medium around, with the power to educate, inspire, frighten, and delight. Used skillfully, it can change the way people think, how they feel, and how they choose to spend their lives. Although it has grown in popularity in recent years, the documentary is still the stepchild of film. Feature films get the lion's share of the attention, distribution deals, A-list actors, and financing. But that seems to be changing. What does it take for a documentary filmmaker to get distributed, to obtain financing or finishing funds? This panel will discuss the necessary steps—and what role the right idea, talent, planning, connections, and chutzpah play in the process. An absolute "be there" for documentary filmmakers, directors and producers. Read full article... Resilience reviewed on filmthreat.com"Resilience" moves at a slow, realistic pace, drawing viewers into the story by revealing tiny pieces of it rather than spoon-feeding the audience its plot. In other words, it's a sure-fire disaster for those raised on MTV. Those who don't suffer from self-induced ADD should prepare themselves for a movie that actually cares about its characters and story, yet doesn't let anyone off the hook. Read full article... Getting Your Film Seen and Sold - Ostrow Speaks At Independent Film Festival Of BostonPage Ostrow, winner of the "Wave of Excellence" award from the Garden State Film Festival, has helped more than 100 films obtain financing or secure distribution. Her firm, Ostrow and Company has a reputation for taking risks on projects, creating "buzz", igniting bidding wars and putting filmmakers on the map. Through her company, Page has assisted and worked with filmmakers and distributors from around the world, and Saturday afternoon she will host a panel dedicated to helping filmmakers help themselves in achieving their loftiest goals. Read full article... Film about illegal immigration highlights Southern Arizona - Channel 4 NewsA strong dose of the world's many cultures and issues right here in Tucson brings dozens of filmmakers to the Arizona International Film Festival. Featured at the festival Saturday night a film that hits close to home here along the U.S./Mexico border. El Inmigrante is a documentary film that examines the Mexican and American border crisis by telling the story of an illegal immigrant who was shot and killed during his journey north. Read full article... Page Ostrow to receive "Wave of Excellence Award" in recognition of her contribution to the cinematic arts. - Garden State Film FestivalOn Sunday evening, April 2, 2006 Ms. Page Ostrow will be awarded the "Wave of Excellence Award" by the The Garden State Film Festival due to her years of tremendous work on behalf of filmmakers and producers. Ms. Ostrow has negotiated distribution for over 125 feature films and numerous documentaries during her career. Read full article... A Homegrown Film Festival - Garden State is fertile ground for filmmakers - Asbury Park PressFilm executive Page Ostrow is receiving a Wave of Excellence award for her work in film financing and distribution (several of her movies have been shown at the festival) and, Ostrow will conduct a panel on Saturday, "Show Me the Money," about what goes on behind the scenes in financing and distributing motion pictures. That panel begins at 1 p.m., also in Berkeley-Carteret's Continental Room. Read full article... Interview With: Page Ostrow, Producer's Rep - Movies On My MindPage Ostrow -- founder and president of the Ostrow and Co. rep firm -- has negotiated funds and distribution for more than 125 feature films and documentaries to date. Recent films repped by Ostrow include Heaven's Falls, starring Oscar nominee David Strathairn (and on which Ostrow has an executive producer credit); the documentary Stolen Childhoods, narrated by two-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep; the timely Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories; Sweat, Colorblind; and the romantic comedy Dating Games People Play. Read full article... Page Ostrow the Numbers Game - Lifestyles Magazine"Suffice it to say, everybody writes. Whether it's a little old lady in Dubuque or an Alaskan fisherman in Anchorage, they all write. And they all have that one great screenplay in them that will make a great movie. Then there are those who have a great script and they're trying to get it around but can't get financing? Or, the film is in the can, but how does gone get completion funds and/or distribution? It's every independent filmmaker's dilemma: Where do I go to get financing? Who should I trust? Is there anybody out there looking out for me? Enter Page Ostrow." Read full article... Producers Vie For Face Time With Ostrow - Hollywood Reporter"For filmmakers, Page Ostrow has become the darling of producers' reps. Known as a high ticket item she proves you get what you pay for by maintaining a 100% track record of successfully securing solid and lucrative distribution deals for filmmakers lucky enough to be represented by her." Read full article... Juvies - Mark Wahlberg helps juvenile offenders - USA TodayMark Wahlberg can tell you in detail about the hardships juvenile offenders suffer in adult prison – many of which have serious health consequences. But the 32 year-old actor's knowledge wasn't gained from preparing for a new film role. Wahlberg was prosecuted as an adult and incarcerated when he was 16 years old. "My incarceration had a huge effect on me and it still does – from my dreams to my every day life and the decisions I make," says Wahlberg. "It affects everything – the people I interact with as well as the people I've had to disassociate my self from." Wahlberg was able to get out of trouble and find blockbuster success in Hollywood starring in The Italian Job, Three Kings and Planet of the Apes. Now as executive producer and narrator of Juvies, a documentary about America's failed juvenile justice system, Wahlberg is passionate about exposing the cruel hardships kids face in adult prisons. The national tour of the film kicks off in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 16, at the Aratani/Japan America Theatre. Read full article... Industry Insider Page Ostrow, Makes it Happen! - Sundance Insider Magazine"For years the buyers were focused on a genre-talent equation. Projects with stars attached seemed to be all it took to raise the total financing for pictures in years past. Nowadays the market wants a strong story line and talented filmmakers. It's a healthy trend." Read full article... Juvies - Filmmaker Puts Focus On Plight of Youth Offenders - Daily JournalIn the opening of the documentary "Juvies," a dozen boys and girls walk single-file across a sandy yard at Central Juvenile Hall in East Los Angeles. Clad in baggy orange prisonwear, the wards, as juvenile inmates, ages 14 to 17, are called, clasp their hands behind their backs, one cupped inside the other, like invisible handcuffs. They look wistful, lost and achingly young. By the time the film is completed five years later, every one of them will be serving hard time in adult prison for their involvement in gang-related crimes. Many of them will be there for most of their lives. Read full article... Page Ostrow - Excerpt from Independent Film Quarterly - Independent Film Quarterly"For years the buyers were focused on a genre-talent equation. We could sell a film by saying it's a Rutger Hauer action pic' or whatever. Nowadays the market wants a good story and good filmmakers. It's a healthy trend." Read full article... Ostrow/Kiefer Sutherland - AFM Special Issue - Hollywood Reporter"The world is demanding better quality, the buyers are sick of seeing crap." Read full article... Ostrow Leads Studio Executives - Sunday Preview Los Angeles Times"Waiting for the Green Light. Hopeful screenwriters line up to pitch screen ideas to panel of entertainment industry professionals at a new UCLA Extention Class." Read full article... Pirates Of The Great Salt Lakes - VarietyA genial goof whose comic invention stretches a bit thin over feature length, E.R. Nelson's "Pirates of the Great Salt Lake" sets overgrown adolescent Utah suburbanites on a less-than-grand, largely delusional adventure. There is indeed booty to be had and a curse to be ended, but these wannabe pirates are very much in comedy-of-lameness, "Napoleon Dynamite" mode. Read full article... El Inmigrante Reviewed on Metroactive.comHighly recommended film about the death of Eusebio de Haro in May 2000. The day laborer asked a rancher for water. He was chased and shot with a .357 magnum and then allowed to bleed to death in a patch of bushes in Kinney County, Texas. What followed was an all-too-typical example of Texas justice. Read full article... El Inmigrante reviewed at Cinequest Film FestivalOn May 13, 2000, Eusebio de Haro, a young Mexican migrant, was shot and killed in Texas during one of his journeys north. The signpost at the beginning of El Inmigrante shows a high number of such occurrences, but this deeply humanitarian story focuses on Haro's death to examine the Mexico-U.S. border crisis with particular scrupulousness. Read full article... Stolen Childhoods chosen as top ten film to see in 2006 - EcologistStolen Childhoods is a documentary feature film about the growing scourge of child labour, which affects 246 million children worldwide. With incredible footage covering eight countries, this documentary gives children a platform to tell their own stories. Read full article... Dating Games People Play - 'Dating' At The Festival - OC MetroNewport Beach is a fun and glamourous city with a lively dating scene that is highlighted in “The OC,” as well as in a hundred bars, restaurants and clubs with pricey menus and views of the water. Now a feature-length film, “Dating Games People Play,” takes up where the hit TV show leaves off, bringing the ways and wiles of coastal romance into big-screen focus. Read full article... Formosa Screened at Santa Fe Film Festival!Formosa screens at the Santa Fe Film Festival on Friday, Dec. 9 at 4:15 pm and on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 11:45 am. Both screenings are at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo. Read full article... Stolen Childhoods on ABC's NightlineChild labor and STOLEN CHILDHOODS was the focus of a special NIGHTLINE telecast on Wednesday, June 15th on ABC-TV, anchored by Ted Koppel. Both Len Morris and Robin Romano were interviewed for the program. Read full article... My Brother's War Reviewed on Filmthreat.comThe life of a microbudget filmmaker is not an easy one. Concerns that would plague any film production such as finding actors and a useable script triple in importance seeing how these are the tools which will help overcome your film's lack of professional polish. Given that from the start there are so many factors working against you it is generally advised that indie filmmakers stick to a topic that will be easy for them to capture on screen as to not overextend themselves with a story that would prove unfilmable using their modest means. Certainly the two genres, which would seem hardest to capture upon a minuscule budget would either be science fiction or historical drama. Keeping this in mind, the sheer perseverance of Whitney Hamilton in adapting her own novel "Firefly" into "My Brother's War", a civil war period piece directed by and starring herself is to be admired. While not always one hundred percent successful in transcending its low budget, Hamilton's film exhibits an authentic feel for its material along with a solid, ever evolving story. Read full article... Press Release: Inside Iraq: The Untold StoriesIn March 2003, Mike Shiley was doing what most ordinary Americans were doing—sitting on the sofa, watching the nightly news coverage of Gulf War II and wondering what was really going on in Iraq. Shiley, an avid world traveler, was personally driven to travel to Iraq and produce a documentary film about what was happening behind the scenes. Although Shiley is not a journalist, he convinced local television affiliate KATU in Portland, OR, to grant him permission to cover the Oregon National Guard in Iraq. Shiley still needed press credentials, so he went to his local Kinko’s print shop where he ingeniously made a homemade press pass. He then cashed in airline miles and with a single contact name written on a crumpled piece of paper, crossed into Iraq—setting off on a journey that would change his life forever. Read full article... Juvies - Poetry Reading Paves The Way For Film's Journey Into Dreams, Misery Of Teens Tried As Adults - San Francisco ChronicleJoie Barnhart of the Richmond District is here because her friend said it would be a cool way to spend a Thursday evening in San Francisco. No age limit at CELLspace gallery, so a 16-year-old is welcome. Besides, says the dark-haired, black-eyelinered youth, as she puts her purse down next to her folding chair, "I like to write poetry, and I hear there are some good poets who are going to read. And there is a movie." What kind of movie? She smiles. "I'm not sure." The documentary in question is "Juvies," a grim look at what happens to teenage offenders when they are sucked into the adult prison system. This will not be an evening of "Must Love Dogs" jocularity. Read full article... The Bros. - Newport Earns Top Honors in PLANSPONSOR Annual Survey - Press ReleaseReachfar Films is pleased to announce that postproduction has recently been completed on its first feature film, THE BROS. Now that the much-anticipated, quirky comedy is ready to be screened to distributors and acquisitions executives, the film’s producers have inked a deal with Page Ostrow of Ostrow and Company to represent the project. Read full article... After Roberto Honored in Italy at the Genova Film Festival - Press ReleaseInternational Award Winner "After Roberto" honored in Italy at the Genova Film Festival AFTER ROBERTO was selected and highlighted as part of the Festival’s closing night ceremonies. Read full article... Page Ostrow to speak at Goodmans Presents: The Business of Filmmaking, CanadianFilmmaker.comJoin fellow WIFT-T members and a sampling of professionals from the filmmaking industry as they share their stories at an exclusive panel on Wednesday, September 6, 2006. Read full article... |
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