Celebrate Short Film Day with GME's Program of Holiday Shorts in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room

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Celebrate Short Film Day with GME's Program of Holiday Shorts in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room

Today, December 21st, is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and has therefore been declared Short Film Day in Germany. December 28th is also recognized as Short Film Day in the United States, in honor of the Lumière brothers’ first public screening of moving pictures (all of which were shorts) at the Grand Café in Paris on December 28th, 1895. Celebrate Short Film Day this year by visiting the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room, where a program of holiday-themed shorts, curated by the GME team, is now available to view.

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GME Launches The Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room with a Program of Holiday Shorts

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GME Launches The Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room with a Program of Holiday Shorts

Today, Gartenberg Media Enterprises is honored to launch TheAdrienne Mancia Streaming Room. Here, you can stream films, clips, and other audiovisual ephemera related to the professional career of legendary film programmer and curator Adrienne Mancia. Mancia, who passed away in 2022 at the age of 95, was a friend and colleague of GME’s. She worked closely with Jon Gartenberg in the film department at the Museum of Modern Art during the 1970s and ‘80s, where she redefined the field of film programming. As the holiday season approaches, GME’s launch of the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room comprises an international array of short films, a format that Adrienne championed throughout her career. The movies streamed here are primarily in the experimental vein, and thus are lesser-known movies in the canon of holiday films. This selection incorporates abstract and hand-painted films, found footage movies, puppet animation, and live action. The international reach of Mancia’s programming interests is represented here with films from the United States, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, and Germany.

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In March, GME Celebrated Pioneering Women In Film

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In March, GME Celebrated Pioneering Women In Film

On the occasion of March being Women’s History Month, GME spotlighted numerous works by women filmmakers that we distribute on DVD, DSL, and/or Blu-Ray to the North American University Market. Most recently, GME has welcomed films by Ida Lupino, Alexandra Dean, and Suzan Pitt to our collection. Of course, many women have blazed trails in the world of cinema outside of being directors. One such woman, Adrienne Mancia, revolutionized the job of the film curator by championing the work of first-time, independent, and international filmmakers while working as a programmer at The Museum of Modern Art in the 1970s and ‘80s, thereby reshaping film culture in New York City (and beyond)

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January 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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January 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Happy Winter from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today, we’re reflecting on screenings, events, and celebrations from January, in New York City and beyond, related to GME colleagues, as well as films and/or filmmakers in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. Notably, Anthology Film Archives screened a number of titles (by esteemed filmmakers like Sergei Eisenstein and Carl Th. Dreyer) that we currently distribute. Additional screenings of work related to GME and our colleagues appeared at various venues around the globe — ranging from august organizations like the International Film Festival of Rotterdam and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, to exciting newer festivals like Animation First and Film Diary NYC.

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MoMA Acquires Adrienne Mancia's Archive

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MoMA Acquires Adrienne Mancia's Archive

Gartenberg Media Enterprises and The Museum of Modern Art announced MoMA’s acquisition of the archive of Adrienne Mancia (1927-2022) in conjunction with the museum’s recently concluded two month-long tribute In Celebration of Adrienne Mancia. This acquisition by MoMA reflects GME’s longstanding priority to excavate various film, photography, and book and paper collections and place them in museums and archives for long-term safekeeping, preservation, and study.

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

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

Happy New Year from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! As we ring in 2024, we’re reflecting on screenings, events, 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 that we distribute to the North American university market. Notably, a mid-’60s sci-fi flick by Jean-Luc Godard returned to the big screen, while the Film-Makers’ Cooperative hosted a two-night benefit screening of an infamous Andy Warhol film — which GME President Jon Gartenberg was instrumental in rediscovering, in the mid-1980s, while working at The Museum of Modern Art.

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

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

Happy Holidays from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Now that it’s already December, 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 that we distribute to the North American university market. November’s events offered a unique selection of work by GME artists and associates, from Alexandra Dean and Nancy Buirski, to a number of fascinating titles featured in MoMA’s ongoing Adrienne Mancia tribute.

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Jon Gartenberg Introduced Francis Ford Coppola's DEMENTIA 13 on November 29th for MoMA's Adrienne Mancia Tribute

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Jon Gartenberg Introduced Francis Ford Coppola's DEMENTIA 13 on November 29th for MoMA's Adrienne Mancia Tribute

On November 29th, 2023, at 6:30pm, GME President Jon Gartenberg introduced the Director’s Cut of Francis Ford Coppola’s feature-length debut, the Roger Corman/American International Pictures-produced 1963 horror film DEMENTIA 13, at the Museum of Modern Art. The film screened as part of the museum’s tribute to former programmer Adrienne Mancia, who passed away last year and who was a close friend and colleague of Gartenberg’s. A video of Gartenberg’s full introduction can be viewed here.

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Jon Gartenberg to Present King Vidor, Henry King, and Francis Ford Coppola Films At MoMA As Part of Adrienne Mancia Tribute

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Jon Gartenberg to Present King Vidor, Henry King, and Francis Ford Coppola Films At MoMA As Part of Adrienne Mancia Tribute

On Wednesday, November 29th, 2023, at 1pm, GME President Jon Gartenberg will introduce King Vidor’s THE JACK-KNIFE MAN (1920) and Henry King’s THE SEVENTH DAY (1922) at the Museum of Modern Art, as part of their Adrienne Mancia tribute, which runs from November through December 2023. Later that day, Gartenberg will also introduce the Director’s Cut of Francis Ford Coppola’s first film, the 1963 AIP horror DEMENTIA 13.

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Jon Gartenberg To Present Jim McBride's DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY At MoMA As Part of Adrienne Mancia Tribute

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Jon Gartenberg To Present Jim McBride's DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY At MoMA As Part of Adrienne Mancia Tribute

On November 24th, 2023, at 1pm, GME President Jon Gartenberg will introduce Jim McBride’s DAVID HOLZMAN’S DIARY (1967) at the Museum of Modern Art, as part of their Adrienne Mancia tribute, which runs from November through December 2023.

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