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In what may amount to the beginnings of a rescue operation, Vin Roberti's Palisades Media Asset Fund announced a "public foreclosure sale" of all the assets belonging to Tartan Films USA and Tartan Video USA.
Legal notice said company's assets include a film library of 101 titles.
Established in 2004 by Hamish McAlpine, the head of the U.K.'s Tartan Films, company established a reputation for acquiring and handling arthouse and genre titles. Its biggest hits were Park Chan-wook's "Oldboy," "Mysterious Skin" and "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance."
A prominent Democrat, Roberti served four terms in the Connecticut legislature and was an executive producer of the documentary "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry."
He is chairman and CEO of Palisades Media Corp. and Roberti Associates, both entertainment, political and telecommunications consulting companies.
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