Man’s Best
Friend Will
Melt Your
Heart
From the
director of
The Story of
The Weeping
Camel, The
Cave of the
Yellow Dog
comes to DVD
February 13
from Tartan
Video
“Perfect…A
quiet work
of art”
-Elizabeth
Weitzman,
New York
Daily News
“Shines
forth as the
year’s best
family film
by far.”
-Jay Carr,
AM New York
“The perfect
family film”
-Rebecca
Jones, Show
Business
Weekly
“A
crowd-pleasing
tale whose
appeal
transcends
all cultural
barriers.”
-Nathan
Rabin, The
Onion
“Strikingly
beautiful…Deserves
an Oscar”
-The Evening
Standard
LOS ANGELES
— November
17, 2006 —
For
Immediate
Release —
From
Oscar-nominated
director
Byambasuren
Davaa, the
Academy
Awardİ
nominated
director of
THE STORY OF
THE WEEPING
CAMEL, comes
THE CAVE OF
THE YELLOW
DOG, a
thought
provoking
mix of
documentary
and drama
that tells
the story of
the age-old
bond between
man and dog.
THE CAVE OF
THE YELLOW
DOG rolls
over for DVD
shelves
February
13th in
stores
across the
nation from
Tartan
Video.
A nomadic
Mongolian
family find
themselves
in
disagreement
when the
oldest
daughter,
Nansaa,
finds a
small dog
and brings
it home.
Believing
that it is
responsible
for
attacking
his sheep,
her father
won’t allow
her to keep
it. When the
family to
move on,
Nansaa must
decide
whether to
defy her
father and
take her new
friend with
them.
THE CAVE OF
THE YELLOW
DOG has
barked up
multiple
awards
including
Best
Direction
Women & Film
at the Mar
del Plata in
2006 and the
Golden
German Film
Awards, the
Palm Dog at
the Cannes
Film
Festival,
the Signis
Award and
the 2005
Golden
Starfish
Award. The
film was
also an
official
selection of
the Berlin
International
Film
Festival,
London
International
Film
Festival and
Mosaiques
London Film
Festival on
its way to
becoming a
classis film
festival
favorite for
critics and
audiences
alike.
On how the
film will be
received by
American
audiences,
director
Byambasuren
Davaa says,
“I think the
film
succeeds
because the
Western
audience see
themselves
in this
film. We
once had the
ability to
communicate
with nature.
Somewhere we
have these
primordial
signals
within us.
And a
Western
audience can
recognize
that.”
Presented in
Mongolian
with English
and Spanish
subtitles as
well as in
English
Language
track, THE
CAVE OF THE
YELLOW DOG
is presented
in
anamorphic
widescreen,
Dolby
Digital 5.1
Surround
Sound and
DTS Surround
Sound 5.1.
Special DVD
features
include an
interview
with the
director,
the original
theatrical
trailer and
trailers of
Tartan
Video’s
upcoming
releases.
Hamish
McAlpine,
the founder
and owner of
Tartan
Films, who
are
celebrating
twenty one
years of
distributing
films in the
UK, launched
Tartan USA
in 2004 with
an eclectic
and
controversial
slate of
films from
established
auteurs and
up-and-coming
filmmakers.
Previous
Tartan film
releases
include 2004
Cannes Grand
Jury Prize
Winner
OLDBOY,
Michael
Winterbottom’s
9 SONGS, the
critically-acclaimed
Romanian
Oscar entry
THE DEATH OF
MR LAZARESCU
and the
final film
in Park
Chanwook’s
“Vengeance
Trilogy,”
LADY
VENGEANCE.
Upcoming
theatrical
releases
include 2005
Cannes Jury
Prize
Winner,
Andrea
Arnold’s RED
ROAD and
Danish
Director
Anders
Morgenthaler’s
half-animated/half-live-action
PRINCESS.
For more
information,
please visit
www.tartanfilmsusa.com.