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Friday, September 28, 2007

Jaman Announces Award-Winning Fall Line-Up

Jaman Announces Award-Winning Fall Line-Up

Highly acclaimed films from Dreamachine, Trust Film, Fortissimo and Fortune Star available this fall on Jaman.com

SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Jaman.com Inc., the leading online download service that delivers feature-length international and independent films in hi-def directly to viewers worldwide, today announced its fall line up of new titles being added from the prestigious world collections of Dreamachine, Trust Film, Fortissimo and Fortune Star. The content partnerships expand Jaman's current library of over 1700 films with additional world renowned features, documentaries, and short titles. With these additions, Jaman solidifies its position as the leading online entertainment service with the largest collection of award-winning films from around the world.

Jaman's partnership with Dreamachine, the label created to bring together the premier arthouse and international films from Celluloid Dreams and the HanWay Films Library, continues to expand to add an ever growing supply of premier cinema from around the world to Jaman.com. The Dreamachine library includes titles from great directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor), Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club), David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch), Woody Allen (Matchpoint), Kitano Takeshi (Kid's Return), Kore-Eda Hirokazu (After Life).

The addition of films from the Fortissimo Film library establishes Jaman as having the largest Internet collection of award winning films from Asia. For the first time, the work from some of Asia's most brilliant filmmakers will be available to download online:

* Hong Kong twin brother powerhouse Danny and Oxide Pang's first
co-written/co-directed film Bangkok Dangerous
* Clara Law's Autumn Moon
* Japanese director, writer and documentarian Shunji Iwai's All About
Lily Chou Chou, April Story, Fireworks, and Fried Dragonfish
* South Korean director Hur Jin-ho's Christmas in August
* Sixth Generation Chinese filmmaker Shi Runjiu's All The Way and
Beautiful New World
* Chinese director and producer Tian Zhuangahuang's Delamu


Jaman will also add premier Scandinavian content from the Trust Film Library. Built on the international success of the works of director Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Manderlay and The Boss Of The All) and the Dogma Films, Trust Film now represents filmmakers and production companies from all over the world and includes titles from some of Scandinavia's best filmmakers including Susanne Bier, Lukas Moodysson, and Thomas Vinterberg.

Additionally, Jaman is partnering with Fortune Star to bring Hong Kong's biggest stars, Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun Fat, to the world stage online. The Fortune Star Film Festival, will present films in a variety of categories, such as the "The Best in Martial Art" (including some of the most stunning fight sequences from Asian Cinema), "Legend of Lee's Family" (including films from both Brandon and Bruce Lee), "Legend of Chow Yun Fat", "The Rising Asian Stars" (films with Stephen Chow and Andy Lau) and "The Hollywood Asian Babes" (starring Maggie Cheung and Michelle Yeoh). Each week Jaman users are offered an exciting new set of titles from Fortune Star's catalogue of over 800 films to download and enjoy.

"By partnering with the best international distribution companies, Jaman is reinforcing its mission to bring hi-def independent and international films to users, everywhere online," says Jaman CEO and founder, Gaurav Dhillon. "We continue to add new and exciting films to our site everyday and expect to more than double the size of our current library by the end of the year."

About Jaman:

Jaman.com is revolutionizing the way people discover, enjoy and share movies all over the world. The company is pioneering entertainment on the Internet by delivering hi-def films to a growing online community of fans and filmmakers. Jaman.com is based in San Mateo, California and is backed by luminaries in technology and media (more at www.jaman.com/about). Join Jaman, Join the World (TM)

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Source: Jaman.com Inc.

CONTACT: Meghan Rathman of Sparkpr, +1-415-321-1867, meghan@sparkpr.com,
for Jaman.com Inc.

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http://www.jaman.com/


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