Maria Lynn will retire as co-president of Wolfe Releasing at the end of March as co-president Jim Stephens assumes the role of sole president.
During her 22-year tenure Lynn helped steer the company as a leading distributor of Lgbt cinema.
“From the beginning, Maria has been a passionate supporter of Lgbt films and filmmakers,” said founder Kathy Wolfe. “She has played an integral role in the growth of our company and we will miss her incredible talent, dedication and passion.”
“Wolfe has been an amazing journey and I will forever be grateful for the experience of working with our partners, filmmakers and the Wolfe Pack,” said Lynn.
Stephens (pictured) was named co-president last year and has sat on the board since July 2013.
His credits include Reaching For The Moon, I Am Divine, Free Fall, Pit Stop, Five Dances and Tru Love.
“I enjoyed working with Maria as Co-President and have deep respect for her and the company...
During her 22-year tenure Lynn helped steer the company as a leading distributor of Lgbt cinema.
“From the beginning, Maria has been a passionate supporter of Lgbt films and filmmakers,” said founder Kathy Wolfe. “She has played an integral role in the growth of our company and we will miss her incredible talent, dedication and passion.”
“Wolfe has been an amazing journey and I will forever be grateful for the experience of working with our partners, filmmakers and the Wolfe Pack,” said Lynn.
Stephens (pictured) was named co-president last year and has sat on the board since July 2013.
His credits include Reaching For The Moon, I Am Divine, Free Fall, Pit Stop, Five Dances and Tru Love.
“I enjoyed working with Maria as Co-President and have deep respect for her and the company...
- 3/24/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Wolfe Releasing, the world's largest exclusive distributor of gay and lesbians films, has acquired U.S. digital and DVD rights to Kate Johnston and Shauna MacDonald's "Tru Love." The film will debut on VOD and DVD later this year. Here's the synopsis per Wolfe: At 37, Tru (Shauna MacDonald) finds herself a serial bed-hopping lesbian who cannot commit to a relationship or a job for long. Then she meets Alice (Kate Trotter), 60, a beautiful widow, who has come to town at the last minute to visit her daughter Suzanne (Christine Horne), who is Tru’s friend. Sparks fly as Alice and Tru begin forging an unlikely friendship …and more. As Suzanne becomes increasingly alarmed at the growing bond between Tru and her mother, Suzanne tries to sabotage the budding romance."We are so delighted to find such a lovely film in a year when so few women’s stories have...
- 2/26/2014
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
Updated: Deals from Java Films, Zodiak, Raven Banner, Silver Sword, m-appeal, Slingshot Films, Rise and Shine, House of Film.
Java flies with Emptying The Skies
Java Films has acquired world rights to Emptying The Skies, Douglass Kass’s feature documentary about migratory song birds. The deal was negotiated by David Koh of Submarine Entertainment and Roger Kass of RingTheJing Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers and Kathryn Bonnici, Head of Acquisitions for Java Films. Submarine has also sold all rights in Canada to Films We Like and Worldwide Airline rights to Jaguar Distribution.
Music Box acquires Watcher Of The Sky
Music Box Films has struck a deal with CAA and Submarine for Us rights to Propeller Films’ Watchers Of The Sky. Submarine licensed Canadian rights to Films We Like, Australia and New Zealand to Madman, pan-Scandinavia to NonStop Entertainment and worldwide airline rights to Jaguar Distribution. Edet Belzberg directed the story about Raphael Lemkin, who coined...
Java flies with Emptying The Skies
Java Films has acquired world rights to Emptying The Skies, Douglass Kass’s feature documentary about migratory song birds. The deal was negotiated by David Koh of Submarine Entertainment and Roger Kass of RingTheJing Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers and Kathryn Bonnici, Head of Acquisitions for Java Films. Submarine has also sold all rights in Canada to Films We Like and Worldwide Airline rights to Jaguar Distribution.
Music Box acquires Watcher Of The Sky
Music Box Films has struck a deal with CAA and Submarine for Us rights to Propeller Films’ Watchers Of The Sky. Submarine licensed Canadian rights to Films We Like, Australia and New Zealand to Madman, pan-Scandinavia to NonStop Entertainment and worldwide airline rights to Jaguar Distribution. Edet Belzberg directed the story about Raphael Lemkin, who coined...
- 2/11/2014
- ScreenDaily
Updated: Deals from Java Films, Zodiak, Raven Banner, Silver Sword, m-appeal, Slingshot Films, Rise and Shine, House of Film.
Java flies with Emptying The Skies
Java Films has acquired world rights to Emptying The Skies, Douglass Kass’s feature documentary about migratory song birds. The deal was negotiated by David Koh of Submarine Entertainment and Roger Kass of RingTheJing Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers and Kathryn Bonnici, Head of Acquisitions for Java Films. Submarine has also sold all rights in Canada to Films We Like and Worldwide Airline rights to Jaguar Distribution.
Raven Banner is Hooked Up
Raven Banner has acquired world sales rights to Pablo Larcuen’s feature debut Hooked Up, the world’s first feature film totally shot with an iPhone.
Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown) and Juan Sola are executive producing through their Ombra Films banner. The story is about Americans on a wild trip to Barcelona, where they encounter...
Java flies with Emptying The Skies
Java Films has acquired world rights to Emptying The Skies, Douglass Kass’s feature documentary about migratory song birds. The deal was negotiated by David Koh of Submarine Entertainment and Roger Kass of RingTheJing Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers and Kathryn Bonnici, Head of Acquisitions for Java Films. Submarine has also sold all rights in Canada to Films We Like and Worldwide Airline rights to Jaguar Distribution.
Raven Banner is Hooked Up
Raven Banner has acquired world sales rights to Pablo Larcuen’s feature debut Hooked Up, the world’s first feature film totally shot with an iPhone.
Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown) and Juan Sola are executive producing through their Ombra Films banner. The story is about Americans on a wild trip to Barcelona, where they encounter...
- 2/11/2014
- ScreenDaily
The Wolfe Releasing company has acquired the U.S. digital and DVD rights to the film "Five Dances." The director Alan Brown ("Private Romeo", "Book of Love") teamed up once again with cinematographer Derek McKane to capture the story of Chip (Ryan Steele's first film role) as he joins a small dance company in and around Soho. There Chip is initiated into the rites of passage of a New York dancer's life, where discipline and endless hard work, the fear of not being good enough, and his first-ever love affair unfolds. "Five Dances" will debut on VOD and DVD in 2014, following a limited theatrical release beginning October 4th. "Alan Brown is an enormously talented writer-director and we’re thrilled to release his wonderful new film," said Wolfe President Maria Lynn. "As emotionally nuanced as his innovative gay romance, "Private Romeo," we're confident that audiences will adore Five Dances as much as we do.
- 10/1/2013
- by James Hiler
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Lbgt Wolfe Releasing has acquired rights to three films that screened at Outfest Los Angeles, which concluded at the weekend. Separately, Image Entertainment has set then release pattern for The Colony.
The distributor took worldwide rights to Doug Spearman’s Hot Guys With Guns, Us and Canadian rights to Cory Krueckeberg’s Getting Go: The Go Doc Project and Jeffrey Schwarz’s I Am Divine.
Spearman’s Hot Guys With Guns stars Marc Anthony Samuel and Brian McArdle as ex-boyfriends in a modern detective story.
Krueckeberg’s Getting Go: The Go Doc Project centres on a young person who sets out to make a documentary about New York nightlife as a way of meeting an object of desire. Schwartz’s I Am Divine is a documentary about the celebrated drag icon.
Wolfe will release the trio on VoD and DVD in 2014 following their theatrical runs. “Gay movie-lovers across the country are going to adore these films as...
The distributor took worldwide rights to Doug Spearman’s Hot Guys With Guns, Us and Canadian rights to Cory Krueckeberg’s Getting Go: The Go Doc Project and Jeffrey Schwarz’s I Am Divine.
Spearman’s Hot Guys With Guns stars Marc Anthony Samuel and Brian McArdle as ex-boyfriends in a modern detective story.
Krueckeberg’s Getting Go: The Go Doc Project centres on a young person who sets out to make a documentary about New York nightlife as a way of meeting an object of desire. Schwartz’s I Am Divine is a documentary about the celebrated drag icon.
Wolfe will release the trio on VoD and DVD in 2014 following their theatrical runs. “Gay movie-lovers across the country are going to adore these films as...
- 7/23/2013
- ScreenDaily
Wolfe Releasing has acquired domestic and international rights to "Four," the debut feature film from director Joshua Sanchez, based on the play by Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright, Christopher Shinn. Wolfe plans to open the film theatrically this summer. The film stars Wendell Pierce ("The Wire") as Joe and Emory Cohen ("Smash") as June. Joe is a black, middle-aged man who meets June, a white teenage boy, online. The pair decide to meet and go out on a date on the 4th of July. Unbeknownst to them, Joe's daughter Abigayle, played by Aja Naomi King, is also out on a date that night with a basketball player named Dexter, played by E.J. Bonilla. As the night unfolds, the couples lives will change. All four of the film's leads collectively won the acting award at last year's Los Angeles Film Festival. Wolfe president Maria Lynn said, "'Four 'is a powerful new American Indie.
- 2/13/2013
- by Cristina A. Gonzalez
- Indiewire
Wolfe Releasing has acquired American and Canadian rights to Matthew Mishory's "A Portrait of James Dean: Joshua Tree, 1951." The film, which stars James Preston in the title role, offers an intimate look at Dean as an up-and-comer in Los Angeles just before widespread recognition of his status as a major talent -- and, ultimately, an icon. "Joshua Tree" has screened at the Seattle International Film Festival, the Rio International Film Festival, the Frameline Festival and elsewhere. Wolfe will release "Joshua Tree" in 2013 on VOD and DVD. Wolfe president Maria Lynn collaborated with representatives from The Film Collaborative and Iconoclastic Features to broker the deal. ...
- 11/13/2012
- by Chris Pomorski
- Indiewire
Wolfe Releasing has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to the dark comedy “Petunia,” which features Thora Birch, Brittany Snow, Tobias Segal, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Christine Lahti and Michael Urie. The specialty distributor plans a theatrical release in 2013 followed by releases on VOD and DVD. Directed by Ash Christian, who wrote the script with Theresa Bennett, the film focuses on a dysfunctional New York family whose relationships are further complicated when one of the sons meets a married, but gay, neighbor. Christian and Birch produced with Jordan Yale Levine. Read More: In the Works: Visiting the Set of Ash Christian's "Petunia" “This is our second release with the incredibly talented writer-director Ash Christian," said Wolfe president Maria Lynn. “We loved working on his previous film ‘Mangus!’ and our audience really responds to the unique cinematic universe he creates. With the added bonus of its stellar...
- 10/23/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Wolfe Releasing acquired the U.S. rights to the Jonathan Lisecki comedy "Gayby" at the SXSW Film Conference & Festival, the company said Tuesday. The deal for the film is "valued in the low six figures," according to Wolfe. The film, which stars Jenn Harris and Matthew Wilkas, follows two former college buddies -- a gay man and a straight woman -- who decide to have a child together, via traditional methods. “Gayby' is the funniest movie I’ve seen in years,” Maria Lynn, president of Wolfe Entertainment, said. “It’s a pleasure to be...
- 4/24/2012
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Sundance World Narrative Competition film “Contracorriente” (Undertow) by Peruvian director Javier Fuentes-Leon has been picked up by Wolfe Releasing. Wolfe acquired the film, starring Manolo Cardona (“Beverly Hills Chihuahua”), Cristian Mercado (“Che”) and Tatiana Astengo (“Fiesta Patria”), for a “low six figure” sum. Wolfe’s Maria Lynn made an offer to Shoreline’s Sam Eigen following the film’s first public screening at The Egyptian Theatre earlier this week in Park City, Ut, according …...
- 1/29/2010
- Indiewire
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