Miramax Films is a film production and distribution company which headquartered in New York City. Today, Miramax Films is acquired by The Walt Disney Company, which was considered an important quasi-independent studio for many years after its acquisition.

Brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein was the main people behind Miramax Films founding in 1979. Originally, the Miramax name was derived from their parents first names, Max and Miriam. It was originally created to distribute independent films deemed commercially unfeasible by the major studios.

Back then, they earned a huge success when the brothers teamed up with British producer Martin Lewis and acquired the U.S. rights to two concert films Lewis had produced of benefit shows for human rights organization Amnesty International. The Weinsteins worked with Lewis to distill the two films into one film for the US marketplace. The resulting film The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball (US Version) was a successful release for Miramax in the summer of 1982. This release presaged a modus operandi that the company would undertake later in the 1980s of acquiring films from international filmmakers and reworking them to suit US sensibilities.

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