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O-SCOPE CAPTURES EVIL SANTA

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New York, NY (September 19, 2010) – Oscilloscope Laboratories announced today that it has acquired all North American rights to Jalmari Helander’s RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE, hot off the World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

A re-imagining of the most classic of all childhood fantasies, the film is a darkly comic gem destined for cult status.

On the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, an archeological dig unearths Santa Claus. This particular Santa, however, isn’t the one you want coming to town. When most of the town’s children go missing, Pietari and his father, a local hunter named Rauno, come into possession of the mythological being.  Rauno’s clan of hunters attempt to cash in on the opportunity by selling Santa back to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig.  What ensues is nothing short of a wildly humorous nightmare – a fantastically bizzare polemic on modern day morality.

Adam Yauch, O-scope head said, “This is really a unique film, the filmmaking exceptional, Jalmari’s sense of timing, perfect. I’m tempted to say it’s like the Coen brothers meets “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”, but RARE EXPORTS is so original in it’s feel and approach that I’ll refrain from such comparisons and simply say — gas up your snowmobiles, load your shotguns and smoke ’em if you got ’em — ’cause we intend to uncage this sucker in theaters for the holidays.” O-Scope is looking at December release.  The film has it’s U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin this coming weekend.

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’ FORTHAT #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, Andersstergaard’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 Grays THE EXPLODING GIRL starring Zoe Kazan and Michel Gondry’s personal family documentary THE THORN IN THE HEART, Lance Daly’s award-winning Irish film KISSES and the re-release of Jules Dassin’s classic THE LAW. O-Scope will release Rob Epstein and Jeff Friedman’s James Franco starrer, HOWL on September 24th.

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