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Artificial Eye founder Andi Engel dies

Andi Engel, founder of UK distribution company Artificial Eye, died in Lubeck, Germany on Dec 26.Engel was born in Berlin in 1942. He and wife Pam Engel set up Artificial Eye in London in the mid-1970s and the company became the UK's leading distributor of arthouse and foreign-language films. Act Entertainment Group and Knatchbull Communications Group recently acquired Artificial Eye - including its 200-title library and two London cinemas.

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