CEO
Kino Lorber
Richard Lorber is the President and CEO of Kino Lorber Inc., the company that was established three years ago through his acquisition of Kino International Corp., the 30 year old leader in the release of acclaimed world cinema, award winning american independent films and classics. Kino Lorber, with a distinguished library of over 700 titles, acquires and releases over 20 new films per year theatrically on its three labels, Kino Lorber, Kino Classics and Alive Mind Cinema as well as over 60 per year digitally and on dvd and blu-ray. Its digital output deals and key relationships extend to over a dozen leading platforms including Netflix, Amazon, Vudu, YouTube, Hulu, Snag Films and others; the company also deploys an in-house e-toolbox for digital marketing and direct to consumer VOD offerings from its own sites. Recent theatricals that played markets across the U.S. are are: Poetry (Cannes prize winner), Le Quattro Volte, City of Life and Death, Jean Luc Godard's "Film Socialisme" and "Mill and the Cross"  with Rutger Hauer and Charlotte Rampling, among others. The Company's "transformative" documentaries under its Alive Mind Cinema banner including the "El Bulli: Cooking in Progress", about molecular gastronomy at the world's most famous avant garde restaurant, and "Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow" about the artist Anselm Kiefer and his transformation of a village in France into a sculptural installation. Soon to be released are "Kumare", last year's SXSW audience award winner and "Elles" starring Juliette Binoche, key titles among a new slate of over a dozen films.   An industry pioneer with over thirty years experience, Mr. Lorber was the co-founder and head of Fox Lorber, which he later merged into the telecom WinStar. As Co-Chairman of WinStar TV and Video, he also led the acquisition of Wellspring Media. Mr. Lorber subsequently founded and served for 6 years as President of Koch Lorber Films, partnered with the company now known as Entertainment 1, where he released such classics as La Dolce Vita and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and important recent films such as Chop Shop (R.Bahrani) and Andrez Wajda’s Katyn.