Artificial Eye is a British film distributor, specialising in foreign-language and art house films for cinema and home entertainment. The company was founded in 1976 by Andi Engel, a German-born film enthusiast, and his then wife, Pamela Balfry, who had a background working with Richard Roud at the London Film Festival. She became Artficial Eye's first managing director. Since 2006, Artficial Eye is part of Curzon Artificial Eye, a group of companies in the film entertainment industry which also includes the Curzon chain of five cinemas in London plus six joint venture cinemas, the Curzon On Demand online home cinema, the retail DVD distributor Fusion Media Sales, and horror film distributor Chelsea Films. Artificial Eye releases some 20 new theatrical films and 30 DVD titles in the UK each year, as well as digital releases via several platforms, such as iTunes, Lovefilm, FilmFlex and in-house Curzon On Demand. The company's stock of 300 titles on DVD and Blu-ray was destroyed in the Sony/PIAS warehouse fire in Enfield, North London during the August 2011 England riots. A company spokesman said the problems caused would be minimal. Wikipedia [ - ]

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