Restart Label goes theatrical with docs
Zagreb-based documentary and video association Restart has established the distribution arm Restart Label to distribute documentaries theatrically, and later to DVD and TV.
Run by well-known activist Oliver Sertic, the company started with Mark Isaac’s lauded All White in Barking in Zagreb’s Europa and KIC theatres, after which it will go to about 30 Croatian arthouse cinemas.
“By the end of 2009 we will release five or six films, and further distribution will depend on what is offered at future documentary world festivals that we go to,” says Sertic.
After Barking, Restart Label will distribute Happy Land, the new film by Croatia’s Goran Devic (known for the controversial Imported Crows), and Asger Leth’s groundbreaking Ghosts of Cite Soleil. The company is currently negotiating with Taskovski Films on Helena Trestikova’s René, winner of the Best European Documentary award in 2008.
After Croatia, these titles will be distributed throughout the former Yugoslavia in co-operation with Restart’s partners, including Maribor Documentary Festival DokMa (Slovenia), Belgrade’s Free Zone Festival (Serbia) and Prizren’s DokuFest (Kosovo). “By the end of the year we expect to have partners and developed distribution in all seven territories of the former Yugoslavia, considered one market by foreign producers,” adds Sertic.
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