News from Jon Bowden and "The Full Picture"

The Full Picture is alive and well with two big events on the horizon. The first is AFM (American Film Market) down in sunny Santa Monica in Los Angeles County. AFM is the largest gathering of international buyers and sellers in the world and our best shot at securing distribution. I’ll be there, pressing palms and swilling coffee, November 7th through the 12th.

From there, I’ll be hitting the road and heading to the Red Rocks Film Festival outside of Zion National Park, Utah. Red Rocks was rated highly by MovieMaker Magazine this year so it’s sure to be worth the trip. In addition, we’ve been given the primetime screening of 8:45pm on Saturday, November 14th - the last night of the festival!

To help build interest around The Full Picture, I’ve posted four clips on YouTube. Please take a moment to watch and rate them. If you feel inclined to send them out to your friends or to post them to your facebook wall, please be my guest. If a dog pushing a skateboard can go viral, so could one of these clips. And for sure, one of these scenes will change the way you view sushi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv5Nw9E8xVI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_U1ITr8ZqQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J10jbn3BEVI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_86NPOY7mMI

Thank you for your help in getting The Full Picture out into the digital world.

Enjoy,

Jon
www.thefullpicturemovie.com

News from Vanessa Gould of "Between the Folds"

"Between the Folds" was recently picked up by PBS's Independent Lens, as well as by their Community Cinema national tour (for the month of November 2009). Additionally, the DVD is now for sale on our website!

http://www.greenfusefilms.com/

News from Stu Maddox

I'm sure that you know about the big gay story this week: the feds opening a center for LGBT elders. Our two films on LGBT Aging issues

Bob and Jack's 52-Year Adventure and

Gen Silent (release date: 5/10)

are getting a boost from the news and I thought it would be a good chance to check in with everyone. (please check out the latest two entries on this page): http://stumaddux.com/BLOG.html

Have a great weekend!

Stu Maddux, Director Editor
http://stumaddux.com

SEA OF DUST JOINS FANGORIA’S TRINITY OF TERRORS

NEWS FROM OUR FRIENDS AT "SEA OF DUST"
“Trippy” Midnight Movie to Open Festival

New York, New York – SEA OF DUST is pleased to announce its October 30th appearance at Fangoria’s Trinity of Terrors (www.trinityofterrors.com) in Las Vegas, Nevada. SEA is scheduled to open the three day festival, with a Friday afternoon projection followed by a Panel Q&A with director Scott Bunt and star Tom Savini.

The multi-festival winning SEA OF DUST stars Tom Savini (FROM DUSK TIL DAWN, DAWN OF THE DEAD) as a historically-based Christian King kidnapping the souls of those he deigns unfaithful so he can force their participation in his religious crusade. Ably assisted by genre icons Ingrid Pitt (THE VAMPIRE LOVERS) and Stuart “Multiple Miggs” Rudin (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS), the tongue-in-cheek film also features the contribution of musician Stephen Malkmus (PAVEMENT).

“We’re truly humbled to be part of this event,” says Bunt. “It really is an amazing opportunity.”

Fangoria’s inaugural Trinity of Terrors will be held at the Palms Casino Resort (www.palms.com) on Halloween weekend, Friday, October 30th – Sunday, November 1st. Rock powerhouse Slipknot (www.slipknot1.com) will highlight the event, performing a special Saturday night concert. In addition, Trinity will offer an exemplary lineup of celebrity guests, including Bruce Campbell, Roger Corman, John Waters, and dozens of others.

This isn’t the first time Fangoria has championed the unabashedly “trippy nightmare” SEA OF DUST. Earlier this year, the magazine’s Weekend of Horrors took the film’s acclaimed trailer cross-country.

“We owe Fangoria a tremendous debt of gratitude,” says Bunt. “Publications often claim that they’re willing to embrace films outside the scope of conventional horror. Fangoria are one of the few that lives this credo.”

Visit the film’s official site (www.seaofdust.com) to see why SEA has been called “a humorous mix of Cronenberg, Bava and Hammer Films. What seems like a campy horror flick at first glance turns out to be much smarter” (BUTFF).

News from Alexia Kosmider

This just in: October 5, 2009

George: I thought you or other members of RIIFF would like to know that our documentary Not Your Mama's Roller Derby, which premiered at the film fest this August received a contract with a distributor CRM---so obviously we and the film fest have lot of success stories--thanks again for help making this film successful!!!

best Alexia Kosmider

‘Gone Fishing’ wins the Producers Guild Of America Awards

Sony Studios, Culver City, LA, the weekend of June 6th / 7th, hosted the very first Producers Guild Of America ‘Produced By Conference’, with 100 plus keynote guest speakers including James Cameron, Clint Eastwood and an army of other top industry experts and producers.

The event culminated in the very first PGA Producers Challenge on Sunday evening. With the finalists drawn from over 600 entrants from around the world, ‘Gone Fishing’ competed against four other films and won the coveted Best Film award. British Producer / Director Chris Jones was present to accept the award from Gale Anne Hurd, producer of films such as ‘Aliens’, ‘Terminator’ and most recently, ‘The Incredible Hulk’.

‘The judges were unanimous in selecting Gone Fishing as the winner and we all felt it was a wonderful film’ said one member of the jury. The prizes included a mentoring lunch with one of Hollywood’s top producers.

‘Gone Fishing’ has already won over 25 international accolades and was Oscar shortlisted in 2009.

Winning this award, from The Producers Guild Of America, is extraordinary!’ comments Producer / Director Chris Jones.

What makes the film unusual is the way in which it was financed and made. Chris Jones is the author of the hugely successful Guerilla Film Makers Handbook series (over 100,000 copies sold) and ‘Gone Fishing’ gave him the chance to reach out to that community of emerging film makers surrounding the books.

Says Jones, ‘I could not fund the film myself, so I chose to ask everyone I ever met for £50, including the film makers who had bought the book in the past. In return I promised I would do my best to make a world class movie, throw a great premiere and give them a credit on the movie… so we have 200 producers! I guess we were pioneers in the now accepted term of ‘crowd sourcing’ as a way of funding a film.’

‘We also promised to take everyone on our journey, and documented the whole process via a blog, including many hours of behind the scenes video. The blog has become its own entity now, attracting thousands of film makers every week.’ (www.chrisjonesblog.com)

Jones has already decided he will be back next year, ‘the conference was an amazing insight and I can’t afford to miss attending next year, it’s that essential’.

Chris Jones works out of the historic Ealing Film Studios in West London.

Contact us on mail@livingspirit.com
www.chrisjonesblog.com

News from Tim Hotchner of "Accelerating America"

“Accelerating America” is now available (download/DVD) on Amazon. In the upcoming weeks the film will also be available on sites like Snag.

The film had its East Coast Premiere at RIIFF and won our top documentary award.


Here's the link to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_e?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=accelerating+america&x=14&y=15

p.s. The film just got a write-up in IFC.com:
http://www.ifc.com/news/2009/05/summer-anywhere-but-a-movie-th.php

p.p.s. You can become a fan of the film on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Accelerating-America/84227511198