Cinema Purgatorio's clients and collaborators include:

• rock band the Flaming Lips ("The greatest US band today" - The Guardian) and Warner Brothers Records for theatrical and semi-theatrical distribution of their film Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips (60 plus cities, and counting);
• film industry legend Richard Lorber for distribution management on Lorber HT Digital and transformative documentary label Alive Mind Media;
  
• New York City independent horror filmmaker and financier Larry Fessenden for projects including I Can See You, directed by Graham Reznick;
• filmmaker Lech Majewski, who was hailed in 2006 with a rare, full, mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, and also had a specialized theatrical tour organized by International Film Circuit, followed by a DVD release of four titles through Kino International;
• filmmakers Jay Stern and Victor Varnado, on projects including the New York City screening series the Iron Mule, stand-up documentary The Awkward Kings of Comedy, and giant robot movie Roboto Supremo, which features Be Kind Rewind filmmaker Michel Gondry as the mayor of Final Tokyo. 

To establish a long-term New York City home for Christmas on Mars and select other projects, Cinema Purgatorio installed "Cinema Purgatorio at KGB / Kraine": a collapsible, high-definition screening room extension to the KGB Complex's Kraine Theater, 85 East Fourth Street, Manhattan.  In audio and visual quality, this system rivals any similarly sized screening room across the city.  When set up, the space looks and feels like a grindhouse movie theater; when torn down, the system does not interfere at all with live stage performances.  Set-up takes fifteen minutes, as does tear down; the space is available for select rentals.

Cinema Purgatorio has consulted on audio-visual systems for other venues including the Angel Orensanz Center, the Bowery Poetry Club, and the Tank.

    

"Cinema Purgatorio has taken Christmas on Mars to places we never thought possible! And we dream big! Thanks for everything!"
- Scott Booker, Manager, the Flaming Lips

"[a] left-field distribution house..."
- Wired Magazine

Ray Privett established Cinema Purgatorio LLC in 2007.  For ten years, Privett has helped filmmakers, producers, and venue administrators execute shows and find unconventional ways of reaching today’s film audiences. For four years, he was distribution coordinator at Chicago's Facets Multi-Media, then for four years he was Programmer and General Manager of the Pioneer Theater in New York City, during that theater's most successful period.  He chose to leave the Pioneer, to develop Cinema Purgatorio and other performing arts projects.

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• You want to screen, or suggest a screening, for a film we represent.
• You want to rent a PA microphone and speaker system in New York City.
• You want to rent our custom screening room at 85 East Fourth Street in Manhattan.
• You want us to show or distribute a film you represent.
• You want us to design or program a space, or you have a general inquiry.

Disclaimer

Many different people have been involved with Cinema Purgatorio.  Some have deeper relationships with the company than others.  Profiles on this site are meant as informational, and with good will.  Everyone with a profile agreed to its presence.  However, if you have one and would like yours removed, please contact us.  At the same time, Cinema Purgatorio is not inherently responsible for - nor a rights holder to - the works referenced on any of these pages.  Some, we are; most, we are not.  Most works referenced are the creations of artists with whom we have worked and have a very loose, non-exclusive affiliation.

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