EXCLUSIVE: Jewish streamer ChaiFlicks has licensed Oscar-winning Paweł Pawlikowski film Ida and a wealth of different titles following a cope with Music Field Movies.
The SVoD platform that makes a speciality of Jewish storytelling has licensed 15 titles from the Chicago-based outfit, together with Golden Globe-nominated Gett: The Trial of Vivane Amsalem. Different titles embrace Memoir of Warfare, Golden Voices and Aida’s Secrets and techniques.
The principle draw is Pawlikowski’s Ida, which received the Academy Award for Finest Worldwide Function Movie in 2015 and follows a younger Polish girl (Agata Trzebuchowska) as she prepares to take vows as a Catholic nun. The orphaned protagonist then discovers that her dad and mom had been Jewish, and joins her solely surviving relative on a highway journey to study the destiny of their households.
ChaiFlicks has greater than 3,000 hours of Jewish movies, TV sequence, and documentaries, and plans to launch Ida and the opposite new titles on its platform later this yr. Music Field works in partnership with Chicago’s iconic Music Field Theatre and distributes the likes of Ida, Christian Petzold’s Transit and the unique Woman with the Dragon Tattoo.
The cope with Music Field comes on the heels of ChaiFlicks’ acquisition of hits akin to Shtisel and Israeli filmmaker Rama Burshtein-Shai’s Fireplace Dance.
“We’re thrilled to companion with the group at Music Field Movies and add these large titles to our rising record of critically acclaimed Jewish films, TV sequence and documentaries,” mentioned Heidi Bogin Oshin, who oversees monetary operations and acquisitions for ChaiFlicks. “We all know that our subscribers will absolutely respect and benefit from the movies alongside all the opposite nice content material we already supply.”