Cinedigm Signs Digital Content Deal with Kanopy, Premium, Free-to-the-User Streaming Platform Available Through Partnered Uni...
October 01 2020 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
Deal Supports Cinedigm’s Efforts to Expand
Content Offerings on New Growth Platforms, Enhancing Kanopy’s
Expansive Catalog of Diverse and Award-Winning Films
Cinedigm (NASDAQ: CIDM) announced today a digital content
partnership with Kanopy, a premium, free-to-the-user streaming
platform available through partnered universities and libraries.
Available to Kanopy users nationwide starting October 1, the
content agreement offers 24 of Cinedigm’s esteemed films from
genres spanning across documentaries to comedies and horror.
“Kanopy offers consumers physically or virtually visiting
educational institutions and libraries with direct access to a
catalog of titles that entertain, enrich and engage audiences,”
said Yolanda Macias, Executive Vice President, Cinedigm
Entertainment Group. “Cinedigm is thrilled to partner with Kanopy
to increase accessibility of our films to library members.”
A partnership that will contribute to Kanopy’s existing
collection of world-renowned and award-winning titles, Cinedigm
offerings include:
- A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story - An
award-winning documentary following Lizzie’s triumphant journey to
the other side of bullying, encouraging a more positive online
environment.
- Life - Starring Robert Pattinson (Tenet) as the iconic
James Dean, the biopic trails a LIFE Magazine photographer as he
documents a pivotal moment in Dean’s life, making history.
- New York, I Love You – Featuring an all-star cast
including Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born), Shia LaBeouf (Honey
Boy), Natalie Portman (Black Swan) and more, the film follows 11
love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the
world.
- The Falling – In time for Halloween, Maisie Williams
(“Game of Thrones”) stars in this horror-thriller set in a strict
1969 English girls' school after a tragedy occurs and a mysterious
fainting epidemic breaks out.
- The Look of Silence - The Academy Award®-nominated
documentary features a family that survived the Indonesian genocide
as they confront the men who killed their brother.
“Kanopy presents its patrons and students with the best in
cinema, including diverse, powerful and enriching films from around
the globe,” said Jason Tyrrell, VP of Content at Kanopy. “Our
partnership with Cinedigm further strengthens our offering,
bringing their exceptional selection of high-quality films onto the
platform.”
The following Cinedigm collection will be made available to
Kanopy users starting in October:
- A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story
- Air Guitar Nation
- American Promise
- Blood Brother
- Crips And Bloods: Made In America
- Gay Sex in the ‘70s
- Genghis Blues
- If You Build It
- It Happened Here
- Last Call At The Oasis
- Life
- Narco Cultura
- New York, I Love You
- Night Moves
- Our Nixon
- Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
- Remote Area Medical
- The Dog
- The English Teacher
- The Falling
- The Keeping Room
- The Look of Silence
- The Tribe
- The World Before Her
Kanopy users can visit Kanopy.com to receive access to
Cinedigm’s full collection of films.
ABOUT KANOPY
Kanopy is a premium, free-to-the-user entertainment streaming
platform available through universities and libraries. Through
partnerships with iconic film companies such as A24, Criterion
Collection, Paramount, PBS and Kino Lorber, amongst others,
Kanopy’s critically-acclaimed catalog provides thousands of the
world’s finest documentaries, award-winning titles, must-see
classics, world cinema, contemporary favorites and kids programming
to public library members, and students and professors at
participating institutions, funded through state-aided
supplementary programs and tuition. The Kanopy app is available on
all major streaming devices, including Apple TV, iOS, Android,
Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and Roku.
For more information, please visit www.kanopy.com.
ABOUT CINEDIGM
For more than twenty years, Cinedigm (NASDAQ: CIDM) has led the
digital transformation of the entertainment industry. Today,
Cinedigm entertains hundreds of millions of consumers around the
globe by providing premium content, streaming channels and
technology services to the world’s largest media, technology and
retail companies.
For more information, visit http://www.cinedigm.com/.
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B/HI on Behalf of Kanopy: Briana Rojas 310-694-3103
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