Kino Lorber Acquires The Documentary Bugs For Theatrical Releases In The US

  • Print
Details
Category: Entertainment News
Published on Tuesday, 17 May 2016 18:17

Kino Lorber has acquired all US rights to BUGS, a documentary produced by Danish powerhouse Sigrid Dyekjær, of Danish Documentary, investigating the next big food trend: edible insects. Reviewers praised the film after its world premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.

Kino Lorber is looking to build on the press coverage garnered since then (see Salon and Huffington Post articles). 

Director Andreas Johnsen succeeds in balancing the travelogue of two head chefs from Nordisc food lab with a serious political view on the issue. Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release in the fall, followed by a digital, educational and packaged media release later this year. 

"Although scientists and agribusiness have started touting edible insects as the future of sustainable food, the notion of eating bugs hasn't exactly gained much popularity among the general public. Head Chef Ben Reade and Lead Researcher Josh Evans from the Nordic Food Lab in Denmark are looking to change that. With a focus on food diversity and deliciousness, they set out on a globe-trotting mission to take on the politics of the palate, sampling grubs in the Australian outback, pillaging giant wasp nests in Japan and attending food expos where entrepreneurs pitch their flavorless farmed crickets.

"Along the way, they put their own haute cuisine spin on local insect delicacies, whipping up dishes like cricket and grasshopper ravioli, maggot cheese gelato and bee larva ceviche. Equal parts culinary documentary, political conversation starter and travelogue, filmmaker Andreas Johnsen's absorbing documentary sets out to unearth the role bugs will play in the future of agriculture and to break down the cultural barriers keeping insects off our plates." (Synopsis by Ian Hollander; Tribeca Film Festival).

Autlooks CEO Salma Abdalla adds: "Kino Lorber successfully released our documentary El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, so we are happy to continue our work on another landmark food documentary."

Richard Lorber, Kino Lorber's CEO, also added: "We were itching to buy BUGS from the minute we saw it! Rare is the doc that's as entertaining as it is important. We can't wait to bring this deliciously original film and series to screens large and small across America."
  

With a library of more than 1,000 titles, Kino Lorber Inc. has been a leader in independent art house distribution for over 30 years, releasing 25 films per year theatrically under its Kino Lorber, Kino Classics, and Alive Mind Cinema banners, including five Academy Award® nominated films in the last seven years.
 
In addition, the company brings over 100 narrative and documentary titles each year to the home entertainment, educational and digital markets with in-house DVD and Blu-ray distribution and direct sales to all major platforms digital platforms.

Haute News

Haute Tease

  • Zero Days Review – The Ultimate Cyber Warfare Thriller

    Zero Days, from Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media, presents a documentary of stunning implications as it exposes the discovery of the highly classified Stuxnet computer code designed to destroy nuclear arsenals of enemy nation-states through computer viruses. 

     

  • Jada Pinkett-Smith Red Table Talk Review – Race and Privilege Inside the Bubble

    Red Table Talk, a web-series hosted by actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, invited Olivia Jade Giannulli, one of two daughters in the center of the Varsity Blues collegiate scandal that landed her famous parents, Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, in prison.

     

  • Ares Announces Launch of Dubai Flagship Showroom Launch

    ARES, the Italian luxury automotive design atelier, is set to officially open its doors to the 12,000 square feet United Arab Emirates Dubai flagship showroom with an exclusive VIP launch event onMarch 12, 2016.

     

  • L'ours et le Retour de Bâton

    L'arrivée incongrue d'ours polaires dans l'archipel de Nouvelle Zemble interroge une fois encore sur les effets du réchauffement climatique mais elle met aussi en évidence l'inconscience et la vanité de l'être humain face à une nature qu'il a toujours cru pouvoir asservir.  

  • World News: The Post Putin Era and the Floodgate

    If Vladimir Putin's power trembled without collapsing under the blow of the Wagners, the abortive attempt at overthrow nevertheless opens the perspective of the post-Putin era that has become inevitable. But for which regime to come?

     

  • The Lobster Review - Bold, Visually Aggressive, Smart Story Telling

    The Lobster, from A24, transports the viewer into a futuristic world, where singles face discrimination, freedom is refused, and those without mates are forced to find partners in a desperately limited society with time the enemy of all.