Myron Bresnick dies at 93

Myron Bresnick, who introduced 100s of foreign films towards the U.S. nontheatrical market and built among the world's biggest 16mm film libraries beginning with a number of game titles, died of kidney failure in Newtown, Conn., on Sept. 4. He was 93.Bresnick started his career in 1945 having a job in the Walter O. Gutlohn 16mm film library. He labored first like a film inspector, then like a booker, later becoming the manager within the firm's Dallas office. (The nontheatrical marketplace for films incorporated schools, colleges, places of worship, camps, libraries, social groups and youth groups.)Gutlohn offered his firm to Worldwide Theatrical and tv Co. Shortly after that, in 1951, Bresnick released Fleetwood Films, beginning using the animated feature "Little Greyneck," in addition to several Hal Roach features.To achieve an aggressive edge inside a market all of a sudden flooded with small film libraries, Fleetwood Films committed to obtaining and disbursing religious-designed films to parochial schools. Among Bresnick's most effective game titles was The spanish language film "The Miracle of Marcelino," directed by Ladislao Vajda and initially launched in 1955.After reading through concerning the film, Bresnick visited The country to search it lower the knowledge sparked his lifetime curiosity about foreign films. Bresnick and the company, later re-named Audio Film Center, dove in to the nontheatrical foreign films market if this acquired the 16mm privileges to P Sica's "Miracle in Milan," after which started to get the 16mm privileges to nonreligious films like "The Small Fugitive" and American documentary classic "The Quiet One." Soon Bresnick acquired two Japanese classics, Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" and Teinosuke Kinugasa's "Gate of Hell," in addition to Satyajit Ray's "Pather Pachali" and "Aparajito" then came films including D.W. Griffith's "Birth of the Nation," Resnais' "This Past Year at Marienbad" plus some Buster Keaton and Harry Langdon features. Simultaneously, Bresnick was creating a relationship with Disney his library eventually incorporated lots of live-action and animated Disney classics.Bresnick increased his small, specialized library into among the world's biggest 16mm nontheatrical film distribution firms if you take chances on misguided films about that they felt strongly, obtaining exclusive privileges to a lot of foreign and locally created photos, purchasing large collections of assorted game titles and obtaining the libraries of more compact distribution firms. His company maintained its Mt. Vernon, N.Y., headquarters coupled with satellite offices in Dallas, Chicago, Concord and La. In 1968, he offered his business to Macmillan.Bresnick upon the market from Macmillan in early 1980s and released Grange Communications, which centered on acquiring and disbursing foreign films theatrically within the U.S. Through close ties with firms and people like Kino Intl. and Jerry Winters, Grange launched films including Andrei Tarkovsky's "Nostalghia," Agnes Varda's "Vagabond" and Masahiro Shinoda's "Yasha-ga-ove," launched within the U.S. as "Demon Pond." Bresnick upon the market in the film industry within the late the nineteen nineties.Bresnick could collect privileges to film collections from legendary company directors including Fellini, Bunuel and Rossellini, with whom he'd developed warm business associations and private relationships. For many years, Bresnick would be a regular in the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival and MIFED.Myron Herman Bresnick was created in Brooklyn, N.Y. He attended Ohio Condition U. on the track scholarship and then moved to NYU. Throughout World war 2 he offered within the Military.Bresnick's wife, the first kind Renee Abramson, predeceased him in 2004. He's made it with a daughter, Peggy Bresnick Kendler, an independent author a boy, Geoffrey and 2 grandchildren. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com