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| Founded | 1990 (as American Film Investment Corporation) 1994 (as Golden Films) |
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| Founder | Diane Eskenazi |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Website | https://www.goldenfilms.com/ |
Golden Films is an American production studio founded in 1990 by Diane Eskenazi, known as American Film Investment Corporation for its first four years in business.[citation needed] The studio has produced a variety of animated shortfilms including the Enchanted Tales series, which were originally distributed by Sony, and a series of well known specials for Hallmark.
The Enchanted Tales series is based on classic literature and fairy tales, most of which had already been made into animated features by The Walt Disney Company. This prompted Disney to sue one of Golden Films' distributors after a string of Disney Renaissance-era films ended up in direct competition with Golden Films' productions on the home video market. As both Disney and Golden Films had relied on the same public domain source material, Disney ultimately lost the case.[1] The Golden Films library also uses classical music and over 200 original songs. Production of new animated content ceased in 2004, but these film are still licensed to TV networks and other distributors.
In 2021, after a 17-year production hiatus, Golden Films began collaborating with another company called Peace Builders to produce live-action documentaries known as the One World series.
- ^ Nichols, Peter (September 17, 1993). "Disney loses suit over Good Times' 'Aladdin' video". Bangor Daily News. Bangor Publishing Company. Retrieved December 3, 2013.