All-star cast includes James Franco, Jon Hamm, David Strathairn, Mary-Louise Parker, and Jeff Daniels

New York, NY (April 22, 2010) – Oscilloscope Laboratories announced today that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to 2-time Academy Award® winning director Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s first dramatic narrative HOWL. Starring James Franco in a career-defining performance as Allen Ginsberg, HOWL is the story of how the young poet’s seminal work broke down societal barriers in the face of an infamous public obscenity trial. HOWL was the opening night film at Sundance Film Festival 2010 and also played in competition at 2010 Berlinale. The film was produced by Elizabeth Redleaf and Christine Kunewa Walker of Werc Werk Works, and Epstein and Friedman. Oscilloscope will release HOWL in theaters and VOD on September 24, 2010.

In his famously confessional style, Ginsberg – poet, counter-culture icon, and chronicler of the Beat Generation – recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to HOWL, the most timeless work of his career. HOWL interweaves three stories: the unfolding of the landmark 1957 obscenity trial; an imaginative animated ride through the prophetic masterpiece; and a unique portrait of a man who found new ways to express himself, and in doing so, changed his own life and galvanized a generation.

HOWL features James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm, Bob Balaban, Alessandro Nivola, Treat Williams, with Mary-Louise Parker and Jeff Daniels.

David Fenkel, co-founder of Oscilloscope says, “At O-Scope we love working with passionate, creative filmmakers who make entertaining and meaningful films, and the team behind HOWL perfectly fit this profile. They put together a great cast, lead by a performance by James Franco that people will be talking about for years.”

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman say: “We’re very happy that HOWL has found the perfect home and partners. Oscilloscope is the coolest company around.”

Elizabeth Walker, CEO of Werc Werk Works says: “We are very fortunate that Oscilloscope has come on board to bring their passion and dedication to this extraordinary and inspiring movie.”

Christine Walker, President of Werc Werk Works says: “Adam Yauch and his team have a terrific track record of nurturing unique films like HOWL and we look forward to working with them and bringing it to the widest audience possible.”

The pic, a riveting exposé of a long lost, never completed Nazi propaganda film will open in August

New York, NY (April 8, 2010) – Oscilloscope Laboratories announced today that it has acquired North American distribution rights to Yael Hersonski’s harrowing documentary A FILM UNFINSIHED. The doc, which premiered at Sundance this year and won the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award, also played at Berlinale 2010 in the Panorama section. Oscilloscope will open the film August 18 at Film Forum and August 20 at Lincoln Plaza in New York City, with a national release to follow.

At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply “Ghetto,” this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a long-missing reel complicated earlier readings of the footage. A FILM UNFINISHED presents the raw footage in its entirety, carefully noting fictionalized sequences (including a staged dinner party) falsely showing “the good life” enjoyed by Jewish urbanites, probing deep into the making of a now-infamous Nazi propaganda film.

A FILM UNFINISHED is a film of enormous import, documenting some of the worst horrors of our time and exposing the efforts of its perpetrators to propel their agenda and cast it in a favorable light.

Adam Yauch, head of Oscilloscope Laboratories, said, “This movie really affected me. It’s an incredibly powerful film, not just because of the rare Nazi propaganda footage it shows, but also the captivating way the filmmakers tell the story.”