“A FILM UNFINISHED”

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 20th 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, and probes 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.”

About Oscilloscope Laboratories:
Oscilloscope
Laboratories is a film production and theatrical distribution entity
launched in 2008 by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys. Yauch modeled
the company after the indie record labels he grew up around, choosing
films and then marketing them with the same artistic integrity with
which they were made.  The company, which is an extension of Yauch’s
recording studio of the same name, has an in-house DVD distribution and
production arm, and the paper packaging is reminiscent of the heyday of
LP record jackets. All of the company's DVD packaging is (free of any
plastic) printed on FSC Certified 80% post-consumer waste paper and
produced in a carbon neutral, hydroelectric plant.  Other Oscilloscope
theatrical releases include Yauch's GUNNIN' FOR THAT #1 SPOT, Irena
Salina's FLOW, Caroline Suh's FRONTRUNNERS, Kurt Kuenne's DEAR ZACHARY,
Kelly Reichardt's WENDY AND LUCY starring Michelle Williams, So Yong
Kim's TREELESS MOUNTAIN, Gabriel Medina’s offbeat comedy THE
PARANOIDS, the Academy-Award® nominated THE GARDEN from Scott Hamilton
Kennedy, Anders Østergaard’s Academy-Award® nominated BURMA VJ, Nati
Baratz's UNMISTAKEN CHILD, and Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein’s NO
IMPACT MAN. Recent releases include Oren Moverman’s Academy-Award®
nominated THE MESSENGER, starring Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster
and Samantha Morton, Henrik Ruben Genz’s Danish thriller TERRIBLY HAPPY,
Bradley Rust Gray’s THE EXPLODING GIRL starring Zoe Kazan and Michel
Gondry’s personal family documentary THE THORN IN THE HEART.
Upcoming releases include Lance Daly’s award-winning Irish film KISSES,
the re-release of Jules Dassin’s classic THE LAW.