PorchLight to Launch Indie Label

LOS ANGELES, May 13:
PorchLight Home Entertainment (PHE) is set to launch a new label, Ocean Park
Home Entertainment, which will feature independent films that appeal to a broad
demographic.

The first two titles
slated for release under the Ocean Park banner are Pope Dreams, which centers on a directionless young boy whose
only clear goal is to get his sick mother to meet the Pope before she dies, and
Outsourced, a modern-day comedy
dealing with cross-cultural conflict and romance. The street date for Pope
Dreams is August 26, with a
preorder date of July 23, while Outsourced is being released September 2, and is available for
preorder on July 30.

Commented Gary Jones, the
president of PHE, “The Ocean Park label further expands PorchLight Home
Entertainment’s reach into all genres of programming on DVD. Ocean Park is
being launched as a showcase for films that are the best of today’s independent
filmmaking, films that are innovative and quality entertainment that appeal to
a broad and diverse demographic.”

Added Robert Yu, the VP of acquisitions for feature films at
PorchLight Entertainment, “The debut of Ocean Park Home Entertainment
further expands PorchLight Entertainment’s commitment to bring multi-tiered and
full-service global distribution and marketing services to independent
filmmakers.”

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski