What We Do

With a focus on documentaries, 7th Art handles film sales and releasing in all markets: theatrical and non-theatrical, festival, educational, television, cable, and home video, including digital and VOD.

We also provide consulting and releasing services to producers, production companies, and studios. The company has released films for HBO, MGM, MCA Universal, EMI, Virgin Records, National Film Board of Canada, A&E, Columbia Tri-Star, and Discovery Communications among others.

 

Who We Are

Since 1994, Seventh Art Releasing has been distributing award-winning independent and foreign films domestically and abroad with the mission to bring unique films to the widest possible audience.

7th Art was founded by Udy Epstein and Jonathan Cordish, and is staffed by Udy Epstein, James Eowan, Oliver Ike (Theatrical, Festivals), Shane Griffin (Acquisitions, Marketing & Sales) and Rachel Owen (Publicity and Social Media).

What We've Done

Recent Releases:
• Love During Wartime (Tribeca International Film Festival)
• The First Movie (Telluride Film Festival, SXSW)
• Jews & Baseball: An American Love Story
• The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground
• 45365 (SXSW Best Documentary Award, Film Independent Spirit Award)
• Art & Copy (Sundance Film Festival Independent Lens)
• New Muslim Cool (PBS POV premiere film)
• No. 4 Street of Our Lady
• The Queen & I (IDFA, Sundance Film Festival, HBO).

Past Releases:
• Academy Award® winner The Long Way Home
• Academy Award® nominees: Balseros: Cuban Rafters, The Farm: Angola USA, Speaking in Strings, Long Nights Journey Into Day
• Academy Award® nominated short documentaries The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo, Eyewitness
• Other popular and award winning films including Word Wars, Jonestown: The Life and Death of People's Temple, Amsterdam and Prix Europa winner Photographer (Fotoamator).

NEWS

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day

In observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 7th Art Releasing presents two powerful an...
January 27th, 2012

New Feature Documentary Oscar Rules- A Voice of Dissent

Udy Epstein, head and founder of Seventh Art Releasing was published in indieWIRE this week regardin...
January 23rd, 2012

The Critics Agree! IN HEAVEN, UNDERGROUND is

Last Friday Seventh Art Releasing's documentary IN HEAVEN, UNDERGROUND opened theatrically in Los An...
January 19th, 2012
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