Blue Dolphin
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Location

United Kingdom

Description

Joseph has used his extensive experience to build a company that has established itself as one of the leading independent distributors in the country, employing innovative distribution patterns for a diverse range of films. Blue Dolphin can sell films in the ancillary markets to Airlines, Hotels and all non-theatrical outlets and also has contacts with film buyers at all Television stations in the UK, having sold to the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Channel 5 and Sky. The company has its own DVD label and PR and marketing departments, with Clients from Universal Home Entertainment to other studio and television companies. Blue Dolphin also handles theatrical releases for other companies, Universal, Sony and others where we look after all cinema bookings, PR and marketing, also handling premiere and event screenings.

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Works in catalogue
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    Daayraa

    film/video, 1996

    A landmark film of popular Indian cinema, lauded as a meeting of Bollywood with Satyajit Ray, The Square Circle ventures into rarely explored and controversial issues of sexual identity and gender stereotypes. As the popular musical cinema reaches the far corners of the country changing audiences tastes and expectations, the male performers who played the female role in traditional folk theatre are becoming obsolete. that is the fate of the main protagonist (actor Nirmal Pandey) who continues, however, to live as a woman and travels rural India as a troubadour. Due to a case of mistaken identity a young village woman, (played by Sonali Kulkarni), is abducted the night before her wedding by a brothel madam and her gang. Through she escapes, as a woman alone she is soon brutally raped before she is taken under the wing to the transvestite performer. His solution to the social constraints on women is to dress her as a man while they journey back to her home village. Disturbed by the new demands and reward of living in the role of the opposite sex, the girl is awakened by the freedom of action accorded her and grows into an expanded sense of identity and sexuality. A bond of affection develops between the odd couple in this hybrid road movie, but the story comes to a tragic, if dignified conclusion as society's power over the individual's quest to define themselves reasserts itself.

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    Different For Girls

    film/video, 1997

    This film subtly weaves information about transsexualism with social drama and romantic boy meets girl comedy in a story about the chance encounter of long lost school friends after twenty years and the sex reassignment of one, Karl to Kim (Steven Mackintosh) and the fascination and growing attraction of the other, Paul (Rupert Graves). 'Different For Girls goes all the way, revealing Kim to Paul and to us in all her post-operative glory. It could have been the finale of damaging bathos, but thanks to subdued lighting, MacKintosh's chutzpag and heaven knows how much Sellotape, it becomes a moment of tender, triumphant revelation.' (Andy Medhurts, Sight & Sound)