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The New York-based distributor will release Giovanna Morales Vargas’ feature directorial debut documentary currently in production.

A Perfect 14 examines the controversial term “plus-size” and the divisive influence it has on society and the fashion industry.

James Earl O’Brien produces and founder and CEO Marc Schiller will serve as executive producer.

Bond/260 plans a 2016 release. The recent slate includes Particle Fever and Advanced Style.

The company served as producer on Deep Web, Alex Winter’s film about the Ross Ulbricht Silk Road trial that premiered recently at SXSW and Epix will broadcast on May 31.

Bond/360 also served as executive producer on Yael Melamede’s upcoming debut feature (Dis)Honesty – The Truth About Lies that will be released theatrically and digitally on May 22.

There’s not much here beyond sass, but it is a genuine pleasure to spend time with women who are growing, changing, and living into their 70s, 80s, and 90s. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Street photographer Ari Seth Cohen runs the wonderful blog Advanced Style, at which he shares the photos he takes of the gorgeous and elegant older women he spots on the sidewalk runways of New York City. This documentary version of the blog isn’t about the photographer — though he does appear — but about his subjects. With the assistance of first-time director Lina Plioplyte, Cohen introduces us to “women [who] really challenge our notion of getting older” by doing it with panache and passion. There’s not much here beyond sass and style, but it is a genuine pleasure to spend...

Music is at the core of two new Specialty features making their theatrical bows this weekend, albeit from rather different ends of the spectrum. XLrator Media will open Jimi: All Is By My Side focusing on the artist’s life in London in nearly three dozen theaters, while Samuel Goldwyn Films will bow faith-centered The Song in over 300 theaters, the biggest number of runs for a limited release newcomer this week. Magnolia Pictures will take thriller The Two Faces Of January starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac to an initial half-dozen locations in the wake of its VOD release late last month and CBS Films is targeting the same number of runs for its Cannes ’14 feature Pride. Factory 25 is opening its art meets goth-rap thriller Hellaware and Cinema Libre will debut a former Swiss foreign-language Oscar contender The Little Bedroom in exclusive New York runs. The weekend is...

Early on in Lina Plioplyte and Ari Seth Cohen's inspirational Advanced Style, a question that was only hinted at in the thematically similar documentaries Hats Off and Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me is finally addressed: Why is it that the most active, fashionable women who are long past retirement age all seem to live in New York? Because the tendency of New Yorkers to walk everywhere promotes longevity, we're told, and the wide streets act as natural runways. It certainly works for the women profiled here, ages ranging from 67 to 95, who rose to prominence in street-style photographer Cohen's blog and eventual book because they continued to dress exactly how they wanted to dress. They eschew the conventional wisdom that women should tone it down as they age, instead expre...

Breaking Glass Pictures has picked up the documentary Corpus Christi: Playing Wnith Redemption.

The film is about Terrence McNally’s Off-Broadway play Corpus Christi and will be released on DVD and VOD on October 14.

The distributor has also acquired Jason Buxton’s thriller Blackbird and releases it on the same platforms on October 7.

Richard Abramowitz’s Abramorama has launched a joint venture with Social Capital Films as the partners acquired Us theatrical rights to Martin Shore’s award-winning music documentary Take Me To The River.

The film follows multiple generations of award-winning Memphis and Mississippi Delta musicians including Frayser Boy and The North Mississippi All-Stars, Otis Clay, Charlie Musselwhite and Snoop Dogg as they collaborate on a new album.

Take Me To The River will open on September 12 and premiered at SXSW, where it won the 24 Beats Per Second Audience Award. Abramowitz brokered the deal with ICM Partners for the film-makers.

Bond/360 has...

Indie distributor Bond/360 has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Advanced Style, cut from the cloth of the famed blog and book that offers portraits of senior style mavens shot by street style photographer Ari Seth Cohen. Bond/360 will roll it out theatrically, digitally and on DVD beginning September 26 just after New York Fashion Week. In the docu, Cohen and director Lina Plioplyte dive into the personal lives of New York City’s most fashionable women over 60, who dispel conventional ideas about beauty and aging and prove that with age comes grace, confidence, boldness and flair. “Ari’s photography celebrates women […]...

Company also records deals on The Last Impresario.

Dogwoof has announced a string of deals on Advanced Style [pictured] and The Last Impresario.

Lina Plioplyte & Ari Seth Cohen’s Advanced Style inked all-rights deals in Scandinavia and the Baltics (Non Stop Entertainment) and in Japan (New Select Co.), while Gracie Otto’s The Last Impresario sold to Canada (KinoSmith) and Italy (I Wonder Pictures).

Ana Vincente of Dogwoof brokered the deals, with market screenings taking place over the weekend for additional territories.

Also on Dogwoof’s Cannes slate are Alex Gibney’s Sundance premiere Finding Fela and Jerry Rothwell’s Sour Grapes, currently in production.

In a world full of unforgiving red circles of shame, painfully moulded, plastic images of women and unrealistic ideas of what beauty is and how it can be obtained, there comes a shining light. Advanced Style is a much needed breath of fresh air, confronting these ridiculous ideas of beauty head-on. It’s a documentary that’s certainly coming out at the right time; a time where these ideas are being questioned and feminism is no longer a quietly held opinion to be whispered about.

The co-writer of the film, Ari Cohen, runs a blog by the same name. He wonders around New York, taking photos of stylish older men and women who refuse to give in to blue rinses and sensible shoes. The film selects a few of his muses and delves in to their lives – what makes them happy, the adventures they’ve had, and where they get their inspiration from.

★★★☆☆A champion of the elegant and elderly, New Yorker Ari Seth Cohen first started his fashion blog, Advanced Style, as a way of documenting his grandmother's remarkable dress sense. Cohen's site quickly gained in popularity, with users across the world logging on for confirmation - or reassurance - that one can grow old glamorously. Adopting the blog's title, director Lina Plioplyte's buoyant but brief documentary delves into the lives of Cohen's best-loved subjects, who range in age from early-sixties to mid-nineties. It's certainly manna from heaven for any devotees of the New York fashion scene, and doc fans will also find much to admire, though there's not a great deal beyond the dazzling glitz and gaud.

I can’t say that a fashion documentary is entirely in my wheelhouse, which probably speaks to the power of Advanced Style, considering that I found it so very appealing. In many ways, fashion is more arbitrary than art, and what can be called great style is incredibly more individualistic than what people might call a good book, or movie, or TV show. What is good style? What does it mean to wear something well? When it comes to fashion, the only constant in all those runway shows is that the people wearing the clothes are all young. Advanced Style tries to turn all that on its head though with the suggestion that one doesn’t have to be youthful to be fashionable, they just have to be young at heart.

Advanced Style shares its name with a blog started by Ari Seth Cohen, which features a collection of photography...

First there was the blog, and then there was the book, now there's the film. Ari Cohen's wildly popular photo collection of older women who push fashion to the limit in New York City has been given the big screen treatment, and is one of the most talked-about films at this year's Hot Docs Festival.

"Advanced Style" sashays into Toronto for four stylish screenings, and it isn't an easy ticket to come by. Word on this film has spread like wildfire over the last few months as major magazines and television programs have profiled the women featured in the doc, as well as Cohen himself and filmmaker Lina Plioplyte. With all the hype, it would seem there is a serious push to better represent mature women in the modern age of fashion.

The film begins the same way the blog did, with Ari Cohen walking up to elegant-looking older...

Distributor takes foreign rights to documentary about stylish, older women.

Dogwoof has acquired foreign rights to Lina Plioplyte and Ari Seth Cohen documentary Advanced Style.

Based on Cohen’s fashion blog and book, the film follows seven New Yorkers aged 62-95 as they challenge the stereotypes of beauty and ageing with their idiosyncratic fashion style.

Advanced Style will receive its world premiere at Hot Docs 2014 (April 24-May 4) in Toronto and a UK theatrical release is set for May 9, 2014.

Vesna Cudic brokered the deal with Cohen and Plioplyte on behalf of Dogwoof Global.

Cohen began his blog about New York’s stylish seniors in 2008 and his subjects found themselves in a position of new-found fame and cultural influence. The documentary focuses on some of his favourite subjects, whose personal style and spirit have guided their approach to ageing. Each offers their own unique perspective on overcoming life’s obstacles.