CHASING ICE Among Cinedigm's June Releases

Cinedigm June releases include Oscar-Nominated documentary CHASING ICE, Alex Karpovsky's SUPPORTING CHARACTERS and other great titles perfect for summer!

JUNE RELEASES

Featured Films

Chasing Ice
In this Academy Award-nominated documentary, acclaimed National Geographic photographer James Balog, once a skeptic about climate change, deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. His hauntingly beautiful videos that compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and the Audience Award at SXSW. (Releases June 4 on Digital)

Supporting Characters
A smart, sexy comedy about life and love in the big city starring Alex Karpovsky (Girls) as a New York film editor torn between his long-term girlfriend and a beautiful young starlet. (Releases June 25 on DVD, Now on Digital)

Dead Man's Burden
A brother and sister reunite on the western frontier only to uncover each other's Unforgivable secrets in this gritty western set in 1870. Stars Clare Bowen (Nashville), David Call (Fringe) and Barlow Jacobs (Shotgun Stories). (Releases June 11 on Cable VOD, Digital & DVD)

Come Out and Play
Beth (Vinessa Shaw, 3:10 To Yuma) and Francis (Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Damages), a happy young couple expecting a child, have come to Mexico for a romantic getaway. As they dock on a sun-kissed beach where children are playing and giggling, everything seems perfect. But as they wander the strangely empty streets, an atmosphere of unease sets in: an abandoned hotel, a distress call that repeatedly echoes from a radio set, the sense of being watched...the sound of children's laughter drifting through the streets, but no adults in sight. What started as a day in paradise quickly turns into a struggle for survival. By elusive cult horror director, Makinov. (Releases June 18 on Blu-ray and DVD; Now on Cable VOD and Digital)

Vivan Las Antipodas
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky (Hush!, Belovy) captures four distinct antipodes: two places that are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth's surface. Landscapes whose splendor touches the soul are juxtaposed with the clamor of a vast city. These antipodes seem mythically connected, somehow united by their oppositeness. (Releases June 11 on Digital & DVD)

The Monk
French superstar Vincent Cassel (Black Swan, A Dangerous Method) stars as an unassailable monk who struggles with temptation in director Dominik Moll's (With a Friend Like Harry...) sexy thriller adapted from Matthew Lewis' gothic novel, The Monk. (Releases June 4 on DVD; Now on Cable VOD & Digital)

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
For 30 years, Academy Award-nominated producer and director Jerry Aronson (Chasing Ice, The Divided Trail) accumulated more than 200 hours of film on Allen Ginsberg, resulting in this comprehensive portrait of one of America's greatest poets, author of "Howl" and founding members of a major literary movement. (Releases June 11 on Digital & DVD)

Noteworthy Documentaries

Iran Job
The culturally relevant tale of the United States Virgin Islands athlete Kevin Sheppard, an American basketball player in Iran. During the nation's controversial green revolution, and against the country's laws, he befriends three Iranian women who forever change him. (Releases June 7 on Digital)

Hybrid
Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2002 Independent Spirit Awards, HYBRID explores the life of Milford Beeghly, an Iowa farmer who led the charge for hybrid corn during the 1930s. (Releases June 11 on Digital)

Miss Gulag
Through the prism of a beauty pageant staged by female inmates of a Siberian prison camp emerges a complex narrative of the lives of the first generation of women to come of age in Post-Soviet Russia. (Releases June 18 on Digital)

Burn
From executive producer Denis Leary , this action-packed documentary about Detroit is told through the eyes of firefighters charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead. The film is the winner of the Audience Award at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for a Gotham Award. (Releases June 18 on Digital)

Fire in the Blood
Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the alarming story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs. (Releases June 18 on Digital)

High Tech, Low Life
Nominated for the Best Documentary Feature at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE follows two of China's first and most daring citizen reporters who are fighting censorship to document the underside of the country's rapid economic development and challenging the boundaries of free speech. (Releases June 18 on Digital)

Kids/Family Titles

Digimon Tamers
For The First Time ever, all 51 episodes from the third season of the popular Anime television series are available in an 8-disc official collector's set. (Releases June 11 on Digital & DVD)

H20 Just Add Water: Metamorphosis/Sea Change/Mermaid Magic
All three H20: JUST ADD WATER movies starring the mermaid trio from Nickelodeon's top-rated television series are now available on DVD and digital download. (Releases June 11 on Digital & DVD)

A Collection of Indie Films

Hansel & Gretal Get Baked
An intense new marijuana strain named "Black Forest" is taking Los Angeles by storm, and Gretel's stoner boyfriend can't get enough. But when the old woman growing the popular drug (Lara Flynn Boyle) turns out to be an evil witch, cooking and eating her wasted patrons for their youth, Gretel and her brother Hansel must save him from a gruesome death - or face the last high of their lives. (Releases June 25 on DVD, Now on Cable VOD & Digital)

Jackie
Twin sisters (Game of Thrones' Carice van Houten and real-life sister Jelka) embark on a life-changing search for their long-lost mother, Jackie (Holly Hunter, The Piano). (Releases June 4 on Digital)

The Guillotines
During the Manchurian-ruled Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yong Zheng creates an elite assassination squad known as the Guillotines, made to eliminate all who oppose him. From Andrew Lau Wai-Keung, the director of the Infernal Affairs trilogy. (Releases June 14 on Cable VOD, Now on Digital)

The Lesser Blessed
Through the eyes of Larry Sole, a First Nation teenager, THE LESSER BLESSED weaves the story of three unlikely friends isolated in a small town discovering life and love in a world clouded by a dark mystery from his past. (Releases June 25 on Digital)

Stranger Things
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival, STRANGER THINGS tells the story of Oona, a young woman who develops an unusual and touching bond with a streetwise homeless man after returning to her childhood home. (Releases June 11 on Digital)

My Best Day
Karen can't believe that she has to work her receptionist gig on a gorgeous Fourth of July. Then a call comes from her long-lost father. Enlisting her janitor friend Meagan to help, Karen investigates her father's trailer park home. (Releases June 18 on Digital)

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