Michael Barker, co-president of Sony Pictures Classics, described the festival as a good place to show foreign-language movies and heralded this festival's ability to spread good word-of-mouth for movies.
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After law school, he began his career at United Artists, first becoming head of the 16mm nontheatrical film rental division, then working on the formation of United Artists Classics, the first major studio-owned, art house division—and the model for today's Fox Searchlight and Sony Pictures Classics.
The Killer Films-produced Kill Your Darlings, a chronicle of the beat writers directed by John Krokidas and starring Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg, was released by Sony Pictures Classics in October 2013.