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HOWARD COHEN:

ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS

Howard Cohen is a film professional with over 20 years of experience in the industry, mostly in the independent sector of the business. He has worked in production and distribution, as well as the packaging, selling and marketing of independent and international films. Cohen and producer Eric d'Arbeloff started theatrical distribution company Roadside Attractions in 2003.  In its first three years, Roadside has released such critical and commercial hits as Super Size Me, Boynton Beach Club, Road to Guantanamo,  Ladies in Lavender, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Walk on Water,  and Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic. Previous to Roadside, Cohen was Head of Independent Film at the United Talent Agency, where he repped indie directors and packaged films. His client list included Alejandro Gonzalez IñarrÍtu, Terry Zwigoff, Kimberly Peirce, Robert Luketic, Nicole Holofcener and John Curran, and some of the films he packaged were Bad Santa, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Igby Goes Down, The Banger Sisters, O, Trick, and Things Behind the Sun. Cohen was also an Exec Producer on Mira Nair's Vanity Fair, released by Focus Features. Before UTA he developed and supervised telefilms at TNT, and before that was the main buyer for The Samuel Goldwyn Company. At Goldwyn his films included Much Ado About Nothing, Truly Madly Deeply, and The Wedding Banquet. He began his career in New York a reader and acquisitions screener for Paramount and HBO. He has an A.B. from Harvard College in English.

 

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