Moon Is The Oldest TV’ Acquired By Greenwich Leisure – Deadline

Greenwich Entertainment has picked up all rights excluding TV to the documentary Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV, directed and produced by Amanda Kim, which world premiered in U.S. Documentary Competitors on the 2023 Sundance Movie Competition. 

The movie will launch its U.S. theatrical launch at New York’s Movie Kind on March 24, being distributed in Canada by Movies We Like beginning on the identical date, forward of its U.S. broadcast premiere on PBS’ American Masters. Dogwoof acquired UK distribution rights and worldwide gross sales rights exterior of Korea in early January, with a distribution deal and streaming accomplice for the latter territory to be introduced shortly.

The doc tells the story of Nam June Paik, a pillar of the American avant-garde within the twentieth century, extensively considered “The George Washington of Video Artwork,” who coined the phrase “Digital Superhighway,” and is arguably essentially the most well-known Korean artist in fashionable historical past. It charts Paik’s inventive evolution, from his formative schooling in Munich, by his rise within the New York artwork scene, and his Nostradamus-like visions of a future by which “everyone may have his personal TV channel.”

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV is a JBS Arts & Curatorial Manufacturing. Kim’s fellow producers on the undertaking had been Jennifer Stockman, David Koh, Amy Interest, Jesse Wann and Mariko Munro. Exec producers are Kenzo Digital, Steve Jang, Florence Sloan, Steven Yeun, Fab 5 Freddy, Alexandra Munroe, Brandon Chen, American Masters‘ Michael Kantor, and Heart for Asian American Media’s Stephen Gong and Donald Younger. 

“The response to this movie has been unbelievable on the Sundance Film Festival,” mentioned producers Stockman and Koh. “We hope that individuals around the globe and of all generations will likely be impressed by Nam June’s story and that our movie will additional set up his status as one of many giants of the twentieth century. We’re excited to accomplice with Greenwich Leisure, American Masters Photos, Movies We Like and Dogwoof to make certain this movie is seen by the widest audiences. We’re proud to introduce first-time Korean-American born filmmaker Amanda Kim.”

“Bolstered by spectacular analysis and wealthy archival materials, Amanda Kim and her workforce have discovered the shifting narrative arc of Paik’s life and artwork whereas giving us a robust sense of Paik the individual,” added Greenwich Co-President, Ed Arentz. “We stay up for bringing Paik’s wonderful story and artwork to twenty first century audiences.”

Whereas financials for the Nam June Paik offers weren’t disclosed, they had been negotiated between Koh of Curatorial, Greenwich’s Arentz, Kantor of American Masters Photos and Ron Mann of Movies We Like.