Sundance Dealmakers: Know Your Unseen Hands - Cinetic Media
Cinetic Media is hardly an unknown around the Sundance Film Festival, but the majority of movie goers will be hard pressed to say they recognize the name or logo. That’s because Cinetic Media occupies the nether realm of broker, a position they occupy so successfully that Defamer jokingly called them, three years ago, the Sundance Unseen Hand.
Now in 2008, things haven’t changed much, except perhaps Cinetic are much less ‘unseen’. The Hollywood Reporter ranked legendary lawyer/producer/sales agent and Cinetic Founder John Sloss and his partner, former CAA top agent Bart Walker, number 21 in their list of the 50 most powerful indie related execs. At Sundance, Cinetic is well known for their annual party...and for having an uncanny knack for being close to all the best deals.
Cinetic Sundance 2008 Scorecard (so far):
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Cinetic and Submarine Entertainment repped the deal.
UPDATE (23 Jan): American Teen: this documentary on a high school in Indiana was sold to Paramount Vantage after a long negotiation session. Cinetic and CAA repped. Deal is worth 1 million and includes all world rights excluding the UK.
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