WALKING SHADOWS is an entertainment company that is in the primary business of producing, publishing, licensing and distributing motion picture products - as well as providing related motion picture services.WALKING SHADOWS specializes in the acquisition, marketing, distribution, exhibition, wholesaling, and retailing of quality independent, foreign, arthouse, genre, and documentary films.It produces, publishes, licenses and distributes films and videos in theaters, on television, on DVD/BluRay, and digitally.The company's products are sold at movie theaters, traditional retailers nationwide, internet retailers and, to some extent, internationally.The company sells its own proprietary content, licenses content from third parties, and distributes content for third parties for a fee. WALKING SHADOWS products are in a range of retail outlets including Wal-Mart, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Netflix, Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, iTunes, and Hulu among others to implement its specialized distribution strategy.WALKING SHADOWS was incorporated in the State of California on October 10th, 2006 originally under the name Luminous Velocity Releasing LLC(or LVR).In December 2008, it underwent a name change that is not only easier to say and spell - but is also more dramatic, cinematic, and literary and thus better reflects its core businesses.From Shakespeare's MACBETH:Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.WALKING SHADOWS (then LVR) launched as a theatrical service company with the release of the documentary "I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal".Narrated by Academy Award@-winning actress Nicole Kidman, and written, directed, and produced by Academy Award@-winning documentarian Richard Trank (1999, The Long Way Home), the film chronicles the dramatic life of the relentless Nazi Hunter, Humanitarian and Activist Simon Wiesenthal.Working with a modest $80,000 P&A budget, we were able to achieve the largest scale release in the history of the film's Producers, Moriah Films - 45 cities across the United States.Our second release was "Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint", written and directed by Tibetan Monk Neten Chockling, and produced by Raymond Steiner ("The Cup", "Travellers & Magicians").A historical epic, the film tells the unlikely story of the man who would become one of Tibet's greatest folk heroes and one of the more legendary spiritual figures within Tibetan Buddhism."Milarepa" began a platform release starting in New York and Los Angeles in September 2007.It opening to $12,100 on one screen in New York on September 7th, 2007 and$11,800 in Los Angeles one week later, then expanded to 14 screens its 3rd week, and ultimately played over 65 cities in the U.S. and Canada. WALKING SHADOWS has released the following films as well:"Re-Cycle" by Pang Brothers was the #6 film in Hong Kong in 2006; and was the Closing Night selection of Un Certain Regard at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.With ace visuals, great scares, and clever concepts, "Re-Cycle" propels the Pang Brothers to the forefront of New Asian Horror. Angelica Lee's performance outshines her work in the Pang Brothers film "The Eye".As the home video rights were tied up with Image, we pulled off a very modest theatrical (5 playdates) - and sold it to television."Polanski Unauthorized" (2009 theatrical), "Stripped Down" (2009 theatrical), "Burning Man - The Burning Sensation" (2009 straight-to-video), "Blood Equity" (2009 straight-to-video), and the upcoming "The Nature of Existence" (2010 theatrical), and many others TBA.
