Hit Classical Piano Documentary ‘Crescendo’ Launches at EFM (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Taipei and Los Angeles-based Organic Media Group has picked up rights to U.S.-produced classical music documentary title “Crescendo” and will be launching it at the European Film Market, which accompanies the Berlin Film Festival.
The picture had its first commercial release in South Korea in December and became the highest grossing foreign documentary in the last three years.
The feature-length title illuminates 30 of the best classical pianists in the world who competed at the 16th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, where the shy Korean prodigy Lim Yunchan won the gold medal.
The silver medal was won by the pregnant and boisterous Russian Anna Geniushene and the bronze went to the cool and calm Ukrainian Dmytro Choni.
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