Original Version of 'Kon Tiki' Acquired by Umbrella Entertainment
Janson Media today announced that it has licensed the Academy-Award winning documentary Kon-Tiki (1 x 60') to Umbrella Entertainment for the DVD/VOD market in Australia and New Zealand. A modern remake of the classic film that hits theaters on April 26, 2013 was recently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Kon-Tiki (1 x 60&'²) is the classic Academy-Award winning documentary film of an astonishing adventure, a journey spanning 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, Norwegian biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by the mythical hero Kon-Tiki.
On April 28, 1947, Heyerdahl and his five crew members embarked from Peru on their daring voyage to the Marquesas Islands, on a balsa wood raft which was built according to the traditions of South America"s pre-Columbian Indians. After 101 suspenseful days on the open sea, alone amid raging storms, whales, and countless sharks, they landed on the Polynesian island of Raroia.
You can watch the original Kon-Tiki documentary in it"s entirety on HULU.
From auspicious beginnings, Umbrella Entertainment was founded in 2001 as an independent, Australian-owned all-rights distribution company driven by expert, hands-on staff with a true passion for feature film, television and music content.
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