Ovidio Assonitis, an independent film producer and businessman with over 35 years experience in the industry, was born to Greek citizens living in Alexandria, Egypt. Assonitis began an extensive distribution network company catering to the Southeast Asia market in the mid-'60s and in a ten-year period distributed more than 900 films from offices in Thailand, Honk Kong, Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia. His former partners and associates include HRH Prince Anusorn Mongkolkarn in Thailand (brother of the King of Thailand), John Litton in the Philippines (President of Mever films, theater owner and former President of the Philippines Film Festival), the Shaw Brothers in Singapore, Alex Tedja In Indonesia and Kong Cho Yee (Edko Enterprises) in Hong Kong. From the 1970s to 2000s Assonitis financed and produced some 53 films. Many of these were joint ventures with American International Pictures (USA), Nippon Herald Films Inc. and Toho-Towa (Japan), with worldwide releases through Columbia Pictures, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, Warner Brothers and United Artists.
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外文名
Ovidio G. Assonitis
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别名
Ovidio Gabriele Assonitis,Ovidio Assonitis,O. Hellman,Oliver Hellman
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性别
男
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出生日期
1943-01-18
