Palm Acquires We Are Together

PALM PICTURES ACQUIRES THE ANTICIPATED, HEARTWARMING AND CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY

WE ARE TOGETHER

The Moving and Inspiring Film About the Remarkable Children Living in a South Africa Orphanage

WINNER - Audience Award - TRIBECA Film Festival, New York

NEW YORK, NY (January 23, 2008) – Palm Pictures today announced the acquisition of WE ARE TOGETHER, a highly regarded and touching documentary, which chronicles the lives of the Agape children in South Africa, orphans who use music to overcome hardship and loss. The deal, which encompasses North American theatrical and home video distribution rights, was concluded by Jan Korbelin, managing partner of Palm Pictures and Annie Roney, President of roco films international, llc. Palm Pictures anticipates a May 2008 theatrical release, followed by the DVD release shortly thereafter. “an incredible piece of work” – BONO

Delivering a powerful message of hope and perseverance, WE ARE TOGETHER touches hearts and minds and was hailed by the Daily Mirror as “Cinema at it’s most inspirational.” The film has won numerous awards worldwide at several prestigious film festivals. WE ARE TOGETHER was the Winner of the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award; WINNER of the Audience Award at the Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival; WINNER of the Audience Award at the Amsterdam Int’l Documentary Film Festival; and WINNER of the Audience Award at the Amnesty Int’l Film Festival; amongst others.

Directed by Paul Taylor and produced by Taylor and Teddy Leifer, WE ARE TOGETHER is a RISE Films production in association with HBO Documentary Films and The Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation. WE ARE TOGETHER is generously supported by Alicia Keys and her Keep A Child Alive Foundation (www.keepachildalive.org), whose founder, Leigh Blake, is an executive producer on the film. Also on board to promote the film’s release is the highly respected ONE campaign (www.one.org), created by renowned musician and philanthropist Bono.

Film Synopsis: Filmed over a period of three years, WE ARE TOGETHER is the story of an orphanage, unlike any that has been seen before.

Life has not been easy for 12-year-old Slindile, her siblings and her friends at the Agape Orphanage in South Africa, where most of the children have lost their parents to AIDS. But they are still kids and teenagers, bashful around boys, squabbling with each other. And when they lift their voices in song, something extraordinary happens.

As the kids at Agape orphanage continue to train for what they hope will be their big break to make it to London for a series of concerts, Slindile and her siblings are hit with more hard news - their oldest brother Sifiso, who has been sick for months, has AIDS.

With unforgettable kids, soaring music and a plot full of surprises, We Are Together arrives as a stirring and uplifting theatrical documentary.

About Palm Pictures Palm Pictures (www.palmpictures.com) is a leader in the converging music, digital media, theatrical and home video markets, emphasizing a compelling slate of music documentaries, arthouse, independent, foreign cinema, and original audio/visual projects. Palm Pictures was started in 1998 by Chris Blackwell, an innovator in the entertainment business who founded Island Records, Island Pictures and Island Outpost, and who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. Palm Pictures’ entertainment properties include a film and music division, Arthouse Films, The Directors Label and Palm World Voices.

About roco films international roco films international is a leader in the worldwide distribution and sales for the most-celebrated theatrical documentaries produced since its creation in 2000. Representing genre-defining documentary films, such as Born Into Brothels, Jesus Camp, No End in Sight and The Weather Underground, roco films has repped six Oscar-nominated feature docs in the last seven years. Best known for their work internationally, roco films began working in the US market in 2006 and will see the theatrical release of two documentary films this year.

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