GME Presents Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER as a Digital Site License

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GME Presents Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER as a Digital Site License

Shot before, during and after 9/11,  Steve Bilich's experimental short documentary Native New Yorker took several years of filming with a 1924 hand-cranked Cine-Kodak camera. It follows Shaman Trail Scout 'Coyote' as he takes a journey that transcends time, from Inwood Park (where the island was traded for beads and booze), down a native trail (now “Broadway”), and into lower Manhattan (a sacred burial ground, now including the newest natives of this island empire). 24 years since the 9/11 attacks,  Bilich's film remains as powerful and relevant as ever.

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Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop Documentary Acquired for U.S. Theatrical Distribution by Kino Lorber

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Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop Documentary Acquired for U.S. Theatrical Distribution by Kino Lorber

On June 4, 2025, it was announced that Kino Lorber had acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Lisa D’Apolito’s SHARI & LAMB CHOP, a documentary about trailblazing children’s entertainer Shari Lewis and her anthropomorphic sock puppet Lamb Chop. For this documentary, GME licensed Raimondo Borea’s photograph of Lewis and Lamb Chop appearing on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in the mid-1960s. D’Apolito’s film will be theatrically released by Kino Lorber tomorrow, July 18th, 2025, followed by a digital, educational, and home video release. GME distributes a number of films from Kino Lorber’s library to North American academic institutions. To read a complete list of Kino Lorber titles we currently offer on DVD, Blu-Ray, and digital formats, click here.

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June 2025 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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June 2025 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from June related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME publicly presented the World Premiere digital restorations of a selection of the early films of Warren Sonbert at Metrograph on June 8th. GME also attended the 2025 Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards, which honored two of our longtime friends and colleaugues: Jim Hubbard and James Wentzy. Furthermore, GME screened Allan King’s groundbreaking documentary WARRENDALE this month in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room.

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Now Playing in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room: Allan King's WARRENDALE

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Now Playing in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room: Allan King's WARRENDALE

Allan King made his feature film directorial debut with the 1967 documentary WARRENDALE, which screens this month in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room. In WARRENDALE, King visits a home for young people living with mental illness located in the suburbs of Toronto. As described by Criterion: “Situated inside the facility like a fly on the wall, we witness the full spectrum of emotions displayed by twelve fascinating children and the caregivers trying to nurture and guide them.” 

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2025 Photo Licensing Reel

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2025 Photo Licensing Reel

GME's Photo Licensing Reel comprises a vast array of photographs taken by Raimondo Borea (1926—1982) and Hugh Bell (1927—2012), whose collections are represented by Gartenberg Media Enterprises for licensing, exhibition, and placement.

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Now Playing in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room: Women Filmmakers

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Now Playing in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room: Women Filmmakers

Adrienne Mancia was a fearless advocate and personal friend of innumerable women directors who pioneered new and challenging forms of filmmaking throughout the 20th century. This selection of short films, curated by the GME team, highlights the work of groundbreaking women filmmakers Maya Deren, Faith Hubley, Agnès Varda, and Shirley Clarke that Adrienne programmed and championed throughout her career. To view this program in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room, click here.

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World AIDS Day: Erasure in Elegy in the Streets

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World AIDS Day: Erasure in Elegy in the Streets

December 1st is World AIDS Day, an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic and honoring those who we have lost to HIV/AIDS. On this day of consciousness-raising, mourning, and remembrance, GME is honored to welcome Jim Hubbard’s ELEGY IN THE STREETS (1989) on DSL into our library of films currently available for international institutional acquisition.

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October 2023 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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October 2023 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Happy November from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! As we head into the holiday season, we’re looking back at events, screenings, and celebrations from last month, in New York City and beyond, related to colleagues of GME as well as films and/or filmmakers in our collection. October’s events offered a unique selection of GME artists and friends, from Dominic Angerame and James Benning, to Jeff Preiss and Jerome Hiler, both of whom were collaborators of Warren Sonbert, whose body of work GME exclusively represents.

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Alexandra Dean's Hedy Lamarr Documentary Plays at Metrograph November 10th & 11th

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Alexandra Dean's Hedy Lamarr Documentary Plays at Metrograph November 10th & 11th

On Friday, November 10th, 2023, at 4:30pm, and Saturday, November 11th, 2023, at 2:15pm, Alexandra Dean’s 2017 documentary about actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, titled BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY, will play at Metrograph. Dean will be in attendance at the November 11th screening for an introduction and Q&A session. GME distributes BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY to the North American university market on Blu-Ray, DVD, and DSL.

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Esfir Shub and Dziga Vertov Films Screen at BAM in November

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Esfir Shub and Dziga Vertov Films Screen at BAM in November

Two Soviet films (THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY and THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA) that GME distributes to the North American university market are playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in November.

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