First off, Elisabeth Fies is a good friend and a great filmmaker. I had the pleasure to work with her on her first indie film, The Commune, and I can clearly say that no one knows genre films like Lis. She is passionate, dedicated and wicked smart. The indie horror community will be greatly enriched to have someone of Lis’ caliber making decisions that will forge the direction of indie horror to come.
Good Luck to Elisabeth and everyone at Bijou Studios!
LOS ANGELES -January 19, 2011- Indie filmmaker Elisabeth Fies has been appointed Vice President of Programming for Bijou Studios LLC, a new distribution force made by and for independent filmmakers. Nic Brown co-founder for Bijou states “We are very concerned about the outlets for independent cinema, so we took matters into our own hands”.
Bijou Studios will have a soft launch late February streaming independent genre movies, with a cable and VOD launch scheduled for summer 2011. Four films will receive a midwest theatrical release under the Bijou brand. Fies is the writer/director of acclaimed edgy feature THE COMMUNE. Lis, along with her producing partner and sister Brenda Fies, founded the monthly female genre film festival BleedFest in Los Angeles. Select BleedFest winners will be offered a first look distribution deal with Bijou Studios, and upcoming partnerships include a half hour anthology series of BleedFest shorts hosted by Fies with filmmaker interviews.
“Lis brings a sense of vibrancy and passion to this role” say Bill Dever one of the seven co-founders of Bijou “Her passion for alternative visions is not to be matched”.
Bijou’s programming mandate includes cutting edge indies, feminist films, filmmakers of underrepresented races, foreign pictures, erotica, historical B Movies, and well-produced genre titles with high production values. The focus of Bijou Studios is to artistically and financially partner with filmmakers to mutual benefit, to provide the public with the best of current underground cinema and an education about the movement’s rich past, and to add to the advancement of cinema. Bold thinking, outsider point of views are welcomed and encouraged.
More information and the contact form are available at: https://www.thebijouchannel.com/
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