Jane Alsobrook, a marketing and publicity specialist who coordinated the U.S. campaigns for numerous successful independent and foreign films in the 1970s and 1980s, has died.
She was 78.It was revealed today that Alsobrook died December 13 at her home in Sedona, AZ on after a lengthy battle with breast cancer.While doing post-graduate work at USC in the early 1970s, Alsobrook joined Gary Essert and Gary Abrahams to help launch the Los Angeles Film Exposition, aka Filmex, the city’s first film festival.She then joined Roger Corman’s New World Pictures to handle marketing and publicity, notably for Fellini’s Amarcord, which won the Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1975.
The following year she shifted gears to become national publicity director for ABC Records, and in the late ’70s she helped engineer the launch of Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, starring The Ramones, which Corman released.In the early 1980s, Alsobrook was involved in the earliest days of Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute and was an advisor for both the screenwriting lab and the nascent Sundance Film Festival.
During the same period, she was part of the Fox Classics staff that acquired and released such films as The Gods Must Be Crazy, Eating Raoul, Reuben Reuben and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and she was unit publicist on Coal Miner’s Daughter, Creepshow and The Black Stallion Returns.After working with marketing guru Charles Lippincott, in 1986 Alsobrook was hired by new Columbia Pictures chief David Puttnam as SVP Marketing and Distribution.
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