Lorber HT Digital holding company Hidden Treasures Inc. has acquired Kino International Corp. to form a new distribution entity, Kino Lorber Inc., in a move that combines their holdings to 600-plus titles. The respective operations will continue to release films under their established monikers, as well as under Lorber's Alive Mind, for documentaries. Together, they expect to release some 60 digital and DVD titles annually. The Kino division next plans to launch a restored version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, enhanced with approximately 30 minutes of newly found footage.

In late January, prominent indie movie house Miramax closed its New York and Los Angeles offices; it now exists solely within the distribution arm of the Walt Disney Company. Founded in 1979 by brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein and bought by Disney in 1993, Miramax produced such notable films as The English Patient, The Crying Game, The Piano, Pulp Fiction, and Il Postino.

Available this month from Passion River Films: a special collector's-edition DVD of Lodz Ghetto (Video Movies, LJ 7/91), a classic in the pantheon of Holocaust documentaries, whose companion Penguin print volume, Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege, LJ heralded as "one of the best books of [1991]." Bonus materials include a 15-minute special supplement titled "Sources and Survivors." More info at www.passionriver.com.

At the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's Restrepo, which follows a platoon of U.S. soldiers fighting in Afghanistan, won the Grand Jury Prize for top documentary, while Debra Grankik's Winter's Bone, about a young girl's search for her meth-dealing father in the Ozarks, won in the dramatic category. National Geographic owns broadcast rights to the former film; Roadside Attractions, to the latter. For the complete list of winners, visit festival.sundance.org/2010.