The derby for which distributor was going to get the rights to triple award winning title from Cannes (I Killed My Mother) has come to a close and in the same measure, Here Media announced the launch of Here Films – thus putting an end to the confusing co-label of Here! and Regent Releasing. For those who haven’t noticed, Here has been slowly doing away with the strictly GL&T label and encompassing a more ‘festival fave’ orientated direction – just recently they released Best Foreign Language Film winner Departures and Cannes UCR Jury prize winner Tokyo Sonata.
I’m not sure what the re-branding will do for operations or visibility, but Xavier Dolan‘s Cannes-winning I Killed My Mother is an impressive directorial debut that brilliantly examines a collection of themes, the rescuing of Kenneth Branagh‘s 2006 film The Magic Flute will interest a select audience who enjoy opera and the pick-up from Iran, Asghar Farhadi‘s Berlin and Tribeca winning About Elly might be a timely piece on Iranian life in and away from the capitol city of Tehran all fall into the current strategy. It appears to be business as usual for the Here people.
