Amy Heller & Dennis Doros

Amy Heller and Dennis Doros started Milestone in 1990 out of their New York City one-bedroom apartment and has since gained an international reputation for releasing classic cinema masterpieces, groundbreaking documentaries, and American independent features. Since 2007, Milestone has concentrated on the restoration and worldwide distribution of films outside the Hollywood mainstream featuring “lost” films by and about African Americans, Native Americans, LGBTQ, and women. Milestone’s motto (in polite company) is “We like to mess with the canon.”

Thanks to the company’s work in rediscovering and releasing important films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Bon Voyage, Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba, Marcel Ophuls’s The Sorrow and the Pity, Milestone has long occupied a position as one of the country’s most influential independent distributors.

With the enormous changes of the last several decades in film technology, distribution, and ownership, many directors of important films have literally lost access to their own work. Dennis and Amy have recently helped to form a new nonprofit called Missing Movies, to help filmmakers find and preserve lost films.

Important contemporary artists who have co-presented Milestone restorations include Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Barbara Kopple, Woody Allen, Steven Soderbergh, Thelma Schoonmaker, Jonathan Demme, Dustin Hoffman, Charles Burnett, and Sherman Alexie.

“Milestone Film & Video is an art-film distributor that has released some of the most distinguished new movies (along with seldom-seen vintage movie classics) of the past decade.” — Stephen Holden, New York Times

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