FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 3, 2020

CINEMA GUILD ACQUIRES LYNNE SACHS'
FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO

THE SLAMDANCE AND SHEFFIELD DOC IS SET FOR A
JANUARY 15, 2021 VIRTUAL CINEMA RELEASE
AT MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
ALONGSIDE A RETROSPECTIVE OF SACHS’ WORK

NEW YORK, NY (December 3, 2020) - Cinema Guild announced today the acquisition of all U.S. distribution rights to Lynne Sachs' Film About a Father Who. After world premiering as the opening night selection at the Slamdance Film Festival in January, the film played as part of Doc Fortnight at The Museum of Modern Art before making its international premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest where Sachs was also honored with a retrospective. Cinema Guild will open the film at Museum of the Moving Image on January 15, 2021, alongside a retrospective of Sachs' work which will also be available in virtual cinemas across the country.

Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. Film About a Father Who is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings.

With a nod to the Cubist renderings of a face, Sachs' cinematic exploration of her father offers simultaneous, sometimes contradictory, views of one seemingly unknowable man who is publicly the uninhibited center of the frame yet privately ensconced in secrets. With this meditation on fatherhood and masculinity, Sachs allows herself and her audience to see beneath the surface of the skin, beyond the projected reality. As the startling facts mount, she discovers more about her father than she had ever hoped to reveal.

"We've long been fans of Lynne Sachs' films and are very excited to work with her on Film About a Father Who," said Cinema Guild President Peter Kelly, "It's a defining work from a fearless and deeply feeling filmmaker and we can't wait to share it with audiences."

"I am thrilled to be bringing my most personal and candid film yet to cinema audiences via such an adventurous and thought-provoking distributor as Cinema Guild," said Sachs.

The deal was negotiated by Peter Kelly of Cinema Guild with attorney Steve Holmgren negotiating on behalf of the filmmaker.

Film About a Father Who features Ira Sachs Sr. with Lynne Sachs, Dana Sachs, Ira Sachs, Jr., Beth Evans, Evan Sachs, Adam Sachs, Annabelle Sachs, Julia Sachs and Madison Geist; editing by Rebecca Shapass; music by Stephen Vitiello.

Lynne Sachs is a Memphis born, Brooklyn based filmmaker. Her work explores the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences by weaving together text, collage, painting, politics and layered sound design. Sachs has made 35 films (including Tip of My Tongue, Your Day is My Night, Investigation of a Flame, and Which Way is East) which have screened at New York Film Festival, Sundance, Oberhausen, Viennale, BAMCinemaFest, Vancouver Film Festival, DocLisboa and many others nationally and internationally. She received a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Arts. In 2019, Tender Buttons Press published Lynne's first collection of poetry Year by Year Poems. Her recent film A Month of Single Frames won the Grand Prize at Oberhausen 2020.

Cinema Guild is a premier distributor of world cinema, independent films and documentaries, whose upcoming releases include Hong Sangsoo's The Woman Who Ran, Matías Piñeiro's Isabella and Kazik Radwanski's Anne at 13,000 ft. Recent theatrical releases include Wang Xiaoshuai's Chinese Portrait, Angela Schanelec's I Was at Home, But..., and RaMell Ross's Academy Award-nominated Hale County This Morning, This Evening. For press inquiries, please contact Cinema Guild at: (212) 685-6242 or press at cinemaguild dot com.

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