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Jane Alsobrook

  • After David Puttnam was forced out of Columbia she became President of Marketing at Island Pictures.
  • She worked in marketing & publicity for Roger Corman and supervised the 1975 Academy Award campaign for Fellini's "Amarcord" that resulted in four nominations and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
  • When Fox closed their classics division she partnered with Charles Lippincott on a marketing company. She was the unit publicist on "Coal Miner's Daughter," "The Black Stallion Returns" and "Creepshow".
  • Was on the Advisory Committee of the first Sundance Institute Filmmakers Lab.
  • In 1971 she was recruited to help organize the Los Angeles Film Exposition, known as Filmex.
  • She founded LABC, the Los Angeles activist group dedicated to educating, supporting and empowering women, raising public awareness and funding for research for Breast Cancer.
  • In the early 1980s she ran Twentieth Century Fox Classics which released "Eating Raoul," "The Gods Must Be Crazy," "Reuben, Reuben" and "Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.".
  • She was recruited by David Puttnam at Columbia Pictures to be the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Distribution, where she led the Academy Award campaign for "The Last Emperor" that resulted in nine Oscars, including Best Picture.
  • In 1975 Jane joined ABC Records as National Publicity Director promoting Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Pointer Sisters, Steely Dan and Chaka Khan.
  • In 1994 she headed up distribution, marketing and acquisitions for the Becker Group in Australia. She acquired "Emma," "Brassed Off," "Scream," "Thank God He Met Lizzie" and "The Blair Witch Project".
  • Did her postgrad at USC.

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