Blue Pie and Planet Blue Pictures work together to restore "Open Eye and Oscar Scherl"!

May 21, 2012 - PRLog -- PRESS RELEASE - EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY – 21st May 2012
BLUE PIE AND PLANET BLUE PICTURES WORK TOGETHER TO RESTORE “OPEN EYE AND OSCAR SCHERL” FILM AND DOCUMENTARY LIBRARY
Blue Pie is pleased to announce a new partnership with our sister company Planet Blue Pictures USA that will see Blue Pie and Planet Blue Pictures work on the restoration of the " Open Eye & Oscar Scherl " film and documentary library. Blue Pie has also been appointed as the exclusive global distribution and syndication partner for the Oscar Scherl and the Open Eye film library.

As Damien Reilly says:
" We are very honoured to have been able to land a film library like this for Blue Pie to distribute and for Planet Blue Pictures to be able to restore parts of the archive. Oscar is an incredible wealth of knowledge and we are looking forward to the greater development of the Open Eye library as well as distributing the many new and exciting projects that Open Eye have in the production queue ".

Open Eye Pty Ltd is an Australian media content producer and marketer of the company’s films. The Company and its Managing Director, Oscar Scherl, have been active in the film and television industry since 1974. The main areas of operations have been, Director of Photography services, owning and managing a film Equipment Rental Company, Producing (23 Films) and Marketing the feature films and documentaries. Until the withdrawal of Government tax incentive finance in the late 90’s we provided film finance via an ASIC approved Dealers License and specialized in Film Fund Management and Executive Producing, rising $120 Million’s worth of production finance for Australian films. With a key team of highly experienced industry professionals, with creative and executive management skills in all areas of the Industry, the Company is now focusing on expansion to provide film content for the World Screen Industry.
Open Eye has acquired and developed a large range of Intellectual Properties, including thirty-two feature film scripts, from which we have chosen three as our lead projects, to be developed and produced in the next three years. The Company also owns a library of 5 feature films, SILVER CITY (Ivar Kants, Gosha Dobrowolska, Steve Bisley), DEATH OF A SOLDIER (James Coburn, Maurie Fields, Reb Brown), SANCTUARY (Steve Bisley, Arky Michael), MASLIN BEACH, VIOLETS VISIT and two documentaries, BLOWN AWAY and the CHINA MOON Series, all of which are to be digitized by the Planet Blue Pictures team and distributed exclusively by Blue Pie Productions world-wide.
For more information on Oscar Scherl and Planet Blue Pictures you can visit the company website at www.planetbluepictures.com

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