RECAP - 2011 NUMBERS
Top 10 Docu grossers
1. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
(Concert perf/Studio release: Paramount) Domestic Gross: $73,013,910
2. African Cats
(Studio release: BV-DisneyNature) Domestic Gross: $15,428,747
3. Born To Be Wild
(IMAX/Studio release: WB) Domestic Gross: $14,844,138
4. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
(Sundance Selects) Domestic Gross: $5,256,974 <--Highest grossing INDIE-docu
5. Buck
(Sundance Selects) Domestic Gross: $4,038,912
6. Senna
(PDA) Domestic Gross: $1,612,430
7. I Am
(Paladin) Domestic Gross: $1,591,034
8. Bill Cunningham New York
(Zeitgeist) Domestic Gross: $1,510,026
9. Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
(SPC) Domestic Gross: $1,200,326
10. Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
(Magnolia) Domestic Gross: $1,067,028
[Note: Numbers courtesy of IndieWIRE.com]
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Top 10 Docu grossers
1. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
(Concert perf/Studio release: Paramount) Domestic Gross: $73,013,910
2. African Cats
(Studio release: BV-DisneyNature) Domestic Gross: $15,428,747
3. Born To Be Wild
(IMAX/Studio release: WB) Domestic Gross: $14,844,138
4. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
(Sundance Selects) Domestic Gross: $5,256,974 <--Highest grossing INDIE-docu
5. Buck
(Sundance Selects) Domestic Gross: $4,038,912
6. Senna
(PDA) Domestic Gross: $1,612,430
7. I Am
(Paladin) Domestic Gross: $1,591,034
8. Bill Cunningham New York
(Zeitgeist) Domestic Gross: $1,510,026
9. Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
(SPC) Domestic Gross: $1,200,326
10. Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
(Magnolia) Domestic Gross: $1,067,028
[Note: Numbers courtesy of IndieWIRE.com]
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Press release
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
THE CARRIER
BENEFITS (RED) ON WORLD AIDS DAY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011
WITH SPECIAL ONLINE SCREENINGS VIA CONSTELLATION.TV
New York (November 11, 2011) – The feature documentary, THE CARRIER, will benefit AIDS charity (RED) with special online screenings on World AIDS Day, Thursday, December 1st. On this day, viewers can watch the film by logging in at http://constellation.tv/carrier. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. EST and 10:00 p.m. EST, each followed by a Q&A with filmmaker, Maggie Betts, a longtime advocate, volunteer and philanthropist for the rights of HIV positive women and children in sub-Saharan Africa.
Each viewing “ticket” of THE CARRIER is $6.99 with a portion of sales directly benefiting (RED).
THE CARRIER was an official pick by the International Documentary Association (IDA) for its prestigious 2011 DocuWeeks Showcase, qualifying the feature documentary for the 2012 Academy Awards®. It is also a nominee for the IDA’s Humanitas Award, an honor given to a film that strives to unify the human family by exploring the stories of people who are different in culture, race, lifestyle, political loyalties and religious beliefs. THE CARRIER made its world premiere at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.
Set against the backdrop of today’s most urgent and contemporary plague, THE CARRIER is a stunning portrait of both a family and a community caught in a desperate struggle to emancipate their next generation from AIDS.
First time director Betts delivers a story of hope, renewal, love and dignity as told through the eyes of an increasingly determined young heroine who refuses to be overwhelmed by the forces that surround her.
With breathtaking visuals and a unique lyrical style, THE CARRIER is an inspiring and emotional testament to today’s modern Africa and a proud people struggling not only to understand and make sense of, but also persevere and overcome what has happened to their world.
www.TheCarrierFilm.com
World AIDS Day is held on December 1st each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died.
About Constellation
Constellation is your online movie theater. Just like a traditional movie theater, audiences purchase tickets to attend scheduled showtimes of movies, or create their own showtimes to watch when they want.
Unlike other online platforms, watching movies on Constellation is a social experience - users can invite their friends to watch with them, and can interact with VIP hosts, such as the films' directors or actors, who often appear live to answer questions during and after select showtimes.
Constellation is based in New York City and Los Angeles, and was founded in 2011 by James Lawler and Reid Carolin.
www.constellation.tv
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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
THE CARRIER
BENEFITS (RED) ON WORLD AIDS DAY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011
WITH SPECIAL ONLINE SCREENINGS VIA CONSTELLATION.TV
New York (November 11, 2011) – The feature documentary, THE CARRIER, will benefit AIDS charity (RED) with special online screenings on World AIDS Day, Thursday, December 1st. On this day, viewers can watch the film by logging in at http://constellation.tv/carrier. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. EST and 10:00 p.m. EST, each followed by a Q&A with filmmaker, Maggie Betts, a longtime advocate, volunteer and philanthropist for the rights of HIV positive women and children in sub-Saharan Africa.
Each viewing “ticket” of THE CARRIER is $6.99 with a portion of sales directly benefiting (RED).
THE CARRIER was an official pick by the International Documentary Association (IDA) for its prestigious 2011 DocuWeeks Showcase, qualifying the feature documentary for the 2012 Academy Awards®. It is also a nominee for the IDA’s Humanitas Award, an honor given to a film that strives to unify the human family by exploring the stories of people who are different in culture, race, lifestyle, political loyalties and religious beliefs. THE CARRIER made its world premiere at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.
Set against the backdrop of today’s most urgent and contemporary plague, THE CARRIER is a stunning portrait of both a family and a community caught in a desperate struggle to emancipate their next generation from AIDS.
First time director Betts delivers a story of hope, renewal, love and dignity as told through the eyes of an increasingly determined young heroine who refuses to be overwhelmed by the forces that surround her.
With breathtaking visuals and a unique lyrical style, THE CARRIER is an inspiring and emotional testament to today’s modern Africa and a proud people struggling not only to understand and make sense of, but also persevere and overcome what has happened to their world.
www.TheCarrierFilm.com
World AIDS Day is held on December 1st each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died.
About Constellation
Constellation is your online movie theater. Just like a traditional movie theater, audiences purchase tickets to attend scheduled showtimes of movies, or create their own showtimes to watch when they want.
Unlike other online platforms, watching movies on Constellation is a social experience - users can invite their friends to watch with them, and can interact with VIP hosts, such as the films' directors or actors, who often appear live to answer questions during and after select showtimes.
Constellation is based in New York City and Los Angeles, and was founded in 2011 by James Lawler and Reid Carolin.
www.constellation.tv
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Press release
VERITAS FILMS, DOHA FILM INSTITUTE, TRIBECA ENTERPRISES and PALADIN PRESENT
GRANDMA, A THOUSAND TIMES
(TETA, ALF MARA)
Directed by Mahmoud Kaabour
GRANDMA, A THOUSAND TIMES will be released theatrically in New York (at the IFC CENTER) on Friday, December 2, 2011.
On behalf of Paladin, award-winning feature documentary GRANDMA, A THOUSAND TIMES, directed by Mahmoud
Kaabour.
Grandma, A Thousand Times puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the center of brave film designed to commemorate her many worlds before they are erased by the passage of time and her eventual death.
Teta Fatima is the 83-year old matriarch of the Kaabour family and the sharp-witted queen bee of an old Beiruti quarter. With great intimacy, the film documents her larger-than-life character as she struggles to cope with the silence of her once-buzzing house and imagines what awaits her beyond death.
Meanwhile, her beloved violinist husband (deceased 20 years) is both an essential absence and presence. His features manifest through the face of their filmmaker grandson while his previously unpublished violin improvisations weave through her world and that of the film.
Grandma, A Thousand Times brings together grandfather, grandmother, and grandson in a playful magic-realist documentary that aims to defy a past death and a future one.
Director Mahmoud Kaabour was born in 1979 and raised in Beirut. Kaabour graduated from the Mel Oppenheim School of Cinema and worked at the National Film Board of Canada and the CBC newsroom. His short film "Being Osama" received four international awards and made him the youngest commissioned filmmaker in Canadian television.
Winner! - London International Documentary Film Festival, Doha Tribeca Film Festival.
Official Selection: Tribeca Film Festival, Rotterdam and many more.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Teta-Alf-Marra-Grandma-A-Thousand-Times/129119880439732?ref=ts
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VERITAS FILMS, DOHA FILM INSTITUTE, TRIBECA ENTERPRISES and PALADIN PRESENT
GRANDMA, A THOUSAND TIMES
(TETA, ALF MARA)
Directed by Mahmoud Kaabour
GRANDMA, A THOUSAND TIMES will be released theatrically in New York (at the IFC CENTER) on Friday, December 2, 2011.
On behalf of Paladin, award-winning feature documentary GRANDMA, A THOUSAND TIMES, directed by Mahmoud
Kaabour.
Grandma, A Thousand Times puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the center of brave film designed to commemorate her many worlds before they are erased by the passage of time and her eventual death.
Teta Fatima is the 83-year old matriarch of the Kaabour family and the sharp-witted queen bee of an old Beiruti quarter. With great intimacy, the film documents her larger-than-life character as she struggles to cope with the silence of her once-buzzing house and imagines what awaits her beyond death.
Meanwhile, her beloved violinist husband (deceased 20 years) is both an essential absence and presence. His features manifest through the face of their filmmaker grandson while his previously unpublished violin improvisations weave through her world and that of the film.
Grandma, A Thousand Times brings together grandfather, grandmother, and grandson in a playful magic-realist documentary that aims to defy a past death and a future one.
Director Mahmoud Kaabour was born in 1979 and raised in Beirut. Kaabour graduated from the Mel Oppenheim School of Cinema and worked at the National Film Board of Canada and the CBC newsroom. His short film "Being Osama" received four international awards and made him the youngest commissioned filmmaker in Canadian television.
Winner! - London International Documentary Film Festival, Doha Tribeca Film Festival.
Official Selection: Tribeca Film Festival, Rotterdam and many more.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Teta-Alf-Marra-Grandma-A-Thousand-Times/129119880439732?ref=ts
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Press release
Boaz Yakin Presents
BOMBAY BEACH
Opens on Friday, October 14, 2011
at the IFC Center in NYC (Starts in LA October 21)
Winner – Best Feature Documentary, 2011 Tribeca Film Festival
BOMBAY BEACH, the groundbreaking first film from director Alma Har’el. A hit at festivals around the world, including the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (Best Feature Documentary Award), the Berlin Film Festival, and the Sheffield Documentary Festival (Special Jury Prize), the film is a compassionate, gorgeously photographed chronicle of a colorful California desert community living on the fringes of the lost American dream.
Set to evocative music by Beirut and Bob Dylan and punctuated with dream-like choreographed interludes, BOMBAY BEACH is one of the most strikingly original documentaries of recent years.
It will open on Friday, October 14 at the IFC Center (in LA October 21). Following its theatrical release, the film will have a release across digital platforms – including video on demand and iTunes – via Focus World on November 1st.
In the middle of the Californian desert lies the state’s largest lake, the man-made Salton Sea, which in the 1950s was a popular vacation destination surrounded by restaurants, shops and nightclubs. Decades later, the lake has largely dried up and the resort haven of Bombay Beach has crumbled into a desolate ghost town populated by a curious blend of migrants
and vagrants.
Red is a tough octogenarian cigarette bootlegger beloved by the desert rats who populate his shanty town. Benny is an imaginative bipolar 7-year-old, reunited with his parents after they’ve spent time in prison for harboring weapons. CeeJay is a black highschool football star who has relocated to Bombay Beach to escape the gang violence that plagues his native South Central LA.
Director Har’el creates of these stories a mesmerizing portrait, a stylized amalgam of vérité documentary and choreographed dance pieces that results in a truly singular cinematic experience.
80 mins. Boaz Yakin Presents. Unrated.
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Boaz Yakin Presents
BOMBAY BEACH
Opens on Friday, October 14, 2011
at the IFC Center in NYC (Starts in LA October 21)
Winner – Best Feature Documentary, 2011 Tribeca Film Festival
BOMBAY BEACH, the groundbreaking first film from director Alma Har’el. A hit at festivals around the world, including the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (Best Feature Documentary Award), the Berlin Film Festival, and the Sheffield Documentary Festival (Special Jury Prize), the film is a compassionate, gorgeously photographed chronicle of a colorful California desert community living on the fringes of the lost American dream.
Set to evocative music by Beirut and Bob Dylan and punctuated with dream-like choreographed interludes, BOMBAY BEACH is one of the most strikingly original documentaries of recent years.
It will open on Friday, October 14 at the IFC Center (in LA October 21). Following its theatrical release, the film will have a release across digital platforms – including video on demand and iTunes – via Focus World on November 1st.
In the middle of the Californian desert lies the state’s largest lake, the man-made Salton Sea, which in the 1950s was a popular vacation destination surrounded by restaurants, shops and nightclubs. Decades later, the lake has largely dried up and the resort haven of Bombay Beach has crumbled into a desolate ghost town populated by a curious blend of migrants
and vagrants.
Red is a tough octogenarian cigarette bootlegger beloved by the desert rats who populate his shanty town. Benny is an imaginative bipolar 7-year-old, reunited with his parents after they’ve spent time in prison for harboring weapons. CeeJay is a black highschool football star who has relocated to Bombay Beach to escape the gang violence that plagues his native South Central LA.
Director Har’el creates of these stories a mesmerizing portrait, a stylized amalgam of vérité documentary and choreographed dance pieces that results in a truly singular cinematic experience.
80 mins. Boaz Yakin Presents. Unrated.
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Advance DVD press reease
Kino Lorber Announces DVD releases of
The Red Chapel (2010) and The Juche Idea (2010)
Both films come to DVD with a street date of October 4, 2011.
"The Red Chapel" is priced at $29.95, and "The Juche Idea" is priced at $24.95!
New York, NY - September 30, 2011 - Kino Lorber is proud to announce the DVD releases of Mads Brügger's The Red Chapel (2010) and Jim Finn's The Juche Idea (2010), two films that offer a fascinating and often provocative glimpse into North Korea.
The Red Chapel (2010) combines the muckraking spirit of Michael Moore with the confrontational comedy of Borat. It is a one-of-a-kind documentary that reveals the injustices of North Korea with hilariously dark wit.
Inspired by the real-life story of the South Korean director kidnapped in the 70s to invigorate the North Korean film
industry, The Juche Idea (2010) follows Yoon Jung Lee, a young video artist invited to work at a Juche art residency on a North Korean collective farm.
WINNER WORLD CINEMA JURY PRIZE DOCUMENTARY SUNDANCE -- OFFICIAL SELECTION SXSW -- OFFICIAL SELECTION IDFA
The Red Chapel (2010) In this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film, a trio of Danish comedians, who call themselves "The Red Chapel," pretend to be regime sympathizers and mount an absurd variety show in Pyongyang. This stunt is led
by the acerbic director Mads Brügger, and assisted by Simon Jul and Jacob Nossell, two performers of South Korean descent.
Constantly shadowed by their guide, Mrs. Pak, they fake allegiance to Kim Jong-il and hope for "One Korea." Only Jacob is allowed to speak his mind. Suffering from cerebral palsy, his halting speech is impossible to translate, so he insults his socialist hosts and receives smiles in return.
The Red Chapel is an unconventional, hilarious and damning peek into a totalitarian nightmare.
4:3 Letterbox, 1.85:1 * 88 minutes * Danish and English with English subtitles * -- Not Rated * Color
The Juche Idea (2010)
WINNER BEST NARRATIVE-FILM CHICAGO UNDERGROUND 2008 -- OFFICIAL SELECTION Vancouver International 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION EDINBURGH 2008
Jim Finn's The Juche Idea is an uproarious and provocative deconstruction of North Korean propaganda and philosophy. Mixing together eye-popping archival footage with deadpan re-enactments, Finn has created a complex docu-fiction that is equally thought-provoking and entertaining.
Translated as self-reliance, 'Juche' (CHOO-chay) is a hybrid of Confucian and Stalinist thought that Kim Jong-il adapted from his father and applied to the entire culture. In The Juche Idea, a sympathetic South Korean filmmaker visits a North Korean artists' colony to bring Juche ideas into the 21st century. She ends up producing hilariously stilted shorts, including a nonsensical sci-fi story and the enigmatic "Dentures of Imperialism."
Inspired by the true story of how a South Korean director was kidnapped in the 70s to invigorate the North's movie industry, The Juche Idea is both sardonic satire and historical excavation, an exuberant collage that reveals the absurdity at the heart of Kim-Jong-il's regime.
Bonus Features:
* Commentary from Director Jim Finn
* The Short Films of Jim Finn
* Deleted Scenes
* Theatrical Trailers
1.85:1, 16:9 * 62 minutes * Korean, Bulgarian, and English with English subtitles -- Not Rated * Color
The Red Chapel (2010)
Director: Mads Brügger
SRP: $29.95
Street date: October 4, 2011
The Juche Idea (2010)
Director: Jim Finn
SRP: $24.95
Street date: October 4, 2011
www.kinolorber.com
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Kino Lorber Announces DVD releases of
The Red Chapel (2010) and The Juche Idea (2010)
Both films come to DVD with a street date of October 4, 2011.
"The Red Chapel" is priced at $29.95, and "The Juche Idea" is priced at $24.95!
New York, NY - September 30, 2011 - Kino Lorber is proud to announce the DVD releases of Mads Brügger's The Red Chapel (2010) and Jim Finn's The Juche Idea (2010), two films that offer a fascinating and often provocative glimpse into North Korea.
The Red Chapel (2010) combines the muckraking spirit of Michael Moore with the confrontational comedy of Borat. It is a one-of-a-kind documentary that reveals the injustices of North Korea with hilariously dark wit.
Inspired by the real-life story of the South Korean director kidnapped in the 70s to invigorate the North Korean film
industry, The Juche Idea (2010) follows Yoon Jung Lee, a young video artist invited to work at a Juche art residency on a North Korean collective farm.
WINNER WORLD CINEMA JURY PRIZE DOCUMENTARY SUNDANCE -- OFFICIAL SELECTION SXSW -- OFFICIAL SELECTION IDFA
The Red Chapel (2010) In this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film, a trio of Danish comedians, who call themselves "The Red Chapel," pretend to be regime sympathizers and mount an absurd variety show in Pyongyang. This stunt is led
by the acerbic director Mads Brügger, and assisted by Simon Jul and Jacob Nossell, two performers of South Korean descent.
Constantly shadowed by their guide, Mrs. Pak, they fake allegiance to Kim Jong-il and hope for "One Korea." Only Jacob is allowed to speak his mind. Suffering from cerebral palsy, his halting speech is impossible to translate, so he insults his socialist hosts and receives smiles in return.
The Red Chapel is an unconventional, hilarious and damning peek into a totalitarian nightmare.
4:3 Letterbox, 1.85:1 * 88 minutes * Danish and English with English subtitles * -- Not Rated * Color
The Juche Idea (2010)
WINNER BEST NARRATIVE-FILM CHICAGO UNDERGROUND 2008 -- OFFICIAL SELECTION Vancouver International 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION EDINBURGH 2008
Jim Finn's The Juche Idea is an uproarious and provocative deconstruction of North Korean propaganda and philosophy. Mixing together eye-popping archival footage with deadpan re-enactments, Finn has created a complex docu-fiction that is equally thought-provoking and entertaining.
Translated as self-reliance, 'Juche' (CHOO-chay) is a hybrid of Confucian and Stalinist thought that Kim Jong-il adapted from his father and applied to the entire culture. In The Juche Idea, a sympathetic South Korean filmmaker visits a North Korean artists' colony to bring Juche ideas into the 21st century. She ends up producing hilariously stilted shorts, including a nonsensical sci-fi story and the enigmatic "Dentures of Imperialism."
Inspired by the true story of how a South Korean director was kidnapped in the 70s to invigorate the North's movie industry, The Juche Idea is both sardonic satire and historical excavation, an exuberant collage that reveals the absurdity at the heart of Kim-Jong-il's regime.
Bonus Features:
* Commentary from Director Jim Finn
* The Short Films of Jim Finn
* Deleted Scenes
* Theatrical Trailers
1.85:1, 16:9 * 62 minutes * Korean, Bulgarian, and English with English subtitles -- Not Rated * Color
The Red Chapel (2010)
Director: Mads Brügger
SRP: $29.95
Street date: October 4, 2011
The Juche Idea (2010)
Director: Jim Finn
SRP: $24.95
Street date: October 4, 2011
www.kinolorber.com
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DVD announcement
A new film from Josie Maynard
THE AFGHAN SOLUTION
NOW available on DVD
Cowgirl Media Inc. in association with MM Doc Inc.
Director's Statement: There are currently two schools of thought on the American-led war in Afghanistan.
First: we should pull all of our resources out of Afghanistan; and second: we must throw more money and more troops at the problems in order to keep the Taliban from taking over.
From the mouths of Afghans, THE AFGHAN SOLUTION poses a third, more viable option - putting the power back into the hands of the Afghan people. THE AFGHAN SOLUTION is a journey to the country, allowing the Afghans to tell us what they believe is the tip of the iceberg.
A powerful and informative warning about the dangers of believing that a central government can address the gravely important issues that the Afghan people are more than willing to handle locally. THE AFGHAN SOLUTION is a superb primer on the key issue affecting modern Afghanistan — the struggle between centralization of power and allowing all tribes to determine their country's future.
THE AFGHAN SOLUTION delivers a comprehensive grasp on the many problems the fledgling country must overcome and will open your eyes to how Afghanistan can either move successfully toward a true democracy or once again fall into the clutches of the cruelest and most vicious tyranny in its history — the Taliban and al Qaeda.
Armed with a candid understanding of the many issues that plague this country and its people, THE AFGHAN SOLUTION is essential viewing for everyone including policy makers, leaders, scholars and human rights campaigners.
To watch a trailer of the film and purchase your copy, visit theafghansolutionmovie.com
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A new film from Josie Maynard
THE AFGHAN SOLUTION
NOW available on DVD
Cowgirl Media Inc. in association with MM Doc Inc.
Director's Statement: There are currently two schools of thought on the American-led war in Afghanistan.
First: we should pull all of our resources out of Afghanistan; and second: we must throw more money and more troops at the problems in order to keep the Taliban from taking over.
From the mouths of Afghans, THE AFGHAN SOLUTION poses a third, more viable option - putting the power back into the hands of the Afghan people. THE AFGHAN SOLUTION is a journey to the country, allowing the Afghans to tell us what they believe is the tip of the iceberg.
A powerful and informative warning about the dangers of believing that a central government can address the gravely important issues that the Afghan people are more than willing to handle locally. THE AFGHAN SOLUTION is a superb primer on the key issue affecting modern Afghanistan — the struggle between centralization of power and allowing all tribes to determine their country's future.
THE AFGHAN SOLUTION delivers a comprehensive grasp on the many problems the fledgling country must overcome and will open your eyes to how Afghanistan can either move successfully toward a true democracy or once again fall into the clutches of the cruelest and most vicious tyranny in its history — the Taliban and al Qaeda.
Armed with a candid understanding of the many issues that plague this country and its people, THE AFGHAN SOLUTION is essential viewing for everyone including policy makers, leaders, scholars and human rights campaigners.
To watch a trailer of the film and purchase your copy, visit theafghansolutionmovie.com
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Press release from SPC (Sony Pictures Classics)
POM Wonderful Presents:
THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD
in select theaters APRIL 22, 2011
Boundary-pushing Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores the world of product placement, marketing and advertising in POM Wonderful Presents: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD, a film that was fully financed through product placement from various brands, all of which are integrated transparently into the film.
While using brands in film promotion is not new for Hollywood, it certainly is new territory for the documentary format. Spurlock exploits the phenomenon to new heights, with everything from branded pizza boxes and in-flight film promotions to branded-everything in-film.
With humor and insight, POM Wonderful Presents: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD unmasks the marketing process to bring audiences behind closed doors directly into the pitch meetings and marketing presentations which ultimately inform our everyday entertainment decisions.
Sponsors were provided with brand category exclusivity. Each of the brands represented in the film have sponsorship arrangements with Spurlock, placing him front and center in their brand campaigns and advertisements, both on and off-line.
Partners have the unique right to promote themselves in association with Spurlock and the film as “The Greatest.” The agreements also stipulate that Spurlock maintains creative control of the film’s content and final edit.
POM Wonderful Presents: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD is directed by Morgan Spurlock, written by Spurlock and Jeremy Chilnick, and produced by Spurlock, Chilnick and Abbie Hurewitz through Spurlock’s production company, Warrior Poets, along with Snoot Entertainment’s Keith Calder and Jessica Wu, who produced.
MPAA Rating PG-13; Running Time: 92 minutes
Website-http://www.sonyclassics.com/pomwonderfulpresentsthegreatestmovieeversold/
Also on Facebook-http://www.facebook.com/thegreatestmovieeversold
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POM Wonderful Presents:
THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD
in select theaters APRIL 22, 2011
Boundary-pushing Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores the world of product placement, marketing and advertising in POM Wonderful Presents: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD, a film that was fully financed through product placement from various brands, all of which are integrated transparently into the film.
While using brands in film promotion is not new for Hollywood, it certainly is new territory for the documentary format. Spurlock exploits the phenomenon to new heights, with everything from branded pizza boxes and in-flight film promotions to branded-everything in-film.
With humor and insight, POM Wonderful Presents: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD unmasks the marketing process to bring audiences behind closed doors directly into the pitch meetings and marketing presentations which ultimately inform our everyday entertainment decisions.
Sponsors were provided with brand category exclusivity. Each of the brands represented in the film have sponsorship arrangements with Spurlock, placing him front and center in their brand campaigns and advertisements, both on and off-line.
Partners have the unique right to promote themselves in association with Spurlock and the film as “The Greatest.” The agreements also stipulate that Spurlock maintains creative control of the film’s content and final edit.
POM Wonderful Presents: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD is directed by Morgan Spurlock, written by Spurlock and Jeremy Chilnick, and produced by Spurlock, Chilnick and Abbie Hurewitz through Spurlock’s production company, Warrior Poets, along with Snoot Entertainment’s Keith Calder and Jessica Wu, who produced.
MPAA Rating PG-13; Running Time: 92 minutes
Website-http://www.sonyclassics.com/pomwonderfulpresentsthegreatestmovieeversold/
Also on Facebook-http://www.facebook.com/thegreatestmovieeversold
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Press release
THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS,
Fascinating Portrait of World's Leading Translator of Dostoyevsky
U.S. Theatrical Premiere, Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at Film Forum-NYC
Film Forum is pleased to present the US theatrical premiere of THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS, a poignant and inspiring new documentary by Vadim Jendreyko. The 5 elephants in question are Dostoyevsky's great literary works, all of which have been translated by the octogenarian Svetlana Geier, considered the world's most masterful translator of Russian literature into German.
The filmmaker visits with a woman whose fascinating, dramatic life story has been colored by some of the most violent events in 20th century European history: Stalin's purges of the kulaks (responsible for her father's death) and the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine (ultimately responsible for saving her life and leading to a university education in Germany).
A rigorous intellectual whom we're privileged to watch parse the language, word by word, with her colleague (sometimes with great, dry humor), she warms the screen with the depths of her dignity and humanity.
Language as a civilizing force is the thread that runs through Geier's life, and it illuminates every minute of the film. Interestingly, Geier reveals her human failings at those moments when the filmmaker points out to her, however gently, the irony that her good fate was made possible by the Nazis' temporary conquest of her homeland.
Svetlana Geier died on November 7, 2010 at age 87.
THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS will have a one-week run, July 20-26, at Film Forum, West Houston Street (West of 6th Avenue), with screenings daily at 1:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00.
THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS (2009, 94 mins.) Written and Directed by Vadim Jendreyko. Camera: Niels Bolbrinker, Stéphane Kuthy. Sound design: Patrick Becker. Editor: Gisela Castronari-Jaensch. Music: Daniel Almada and Martin Iannaccone. Switzerland / Germany. In German with English subtitles. A Cinema Guild Release
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THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS,
Fascinating Portrait of World's Leading Translator of Dostoyevsky
U.S. Theatrical Premiere, Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at Film Forum-NYC
Film Forum is pleased to present the US theatrical premiere of THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS, a poignant and inspiring new documentary by Vadim Jendreyko. The 5 elephants in question are Dostoyevsky's great literary works, all of which have been translated by the octogenarian Svetlana Geier, considered the world's most masterful translator of Russian literature into German.
The filmmaker visits with a woman whose fascinating, dramatic life story has been colored by some of the most violent events in 20th century European history: Stalin's purges of the kulaks (responsible for her father's death) and the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine (ultimately responsible for saving her life and leading to a university education in Germany).
A rigorous intellectual whom we're privileged to watch parse the language, word by word, with her colleague (sometimes with great, dry humor), she warms the screen with the depths of her dignity and humanity.
Language as a civilizing force is the thread that runs through Geier's life, and it illuminates every minute of the film. Interestingly, Geier reveals her human failings at those moments when the filmmaker points out to her, however gently, the irony that her good fate was made possible by the Nazis' temporary conquest of her homeland.
Svetlana Geier died on November 7, 2010 at age 87.
THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS will have a one-week run, July 20-26, at Film Forum, West Houston Street (West of 6th Avenue), with screenings daily at 1:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00.
THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS (2009, 94 mins.) Written and Directed by Vadim Jendreyko. Camera: Niels Bolbrinker, Stéphane Kuthy. Sound design: Patrick Becker. Editor: Gisela Castronari-Jaensch. Music: Daniel Almada and Martin Iannaccone. Switzerland / Germany. In German with English subtitles. A Cinema Guild Release
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Press release
National Geographic Entertainment, YouTube.com and SCOTT FREE FILMS
Present
A film made possible by LG
LIFE IN A DAY
Opening in New York on July 29, 2011
at the Village East Cinema and Clearview Cinemas 1st & 62nd
Oscar®-winning film director Kevin Macdonald’s LIFE IN A DAY is an idea borne out of a unique partnership between Ridley Scott’s Scott Free UK and YouTube. The film is a user-generated feature-length documentary, shot on a single day - July 24, 2010 - that enlisted the global community to capture a moment of their lives on camera.
The world responded by submitting more than 80,000 videos to YouTube, representing over 4,500 hours of deeply personal, powerful films from contributors from Australia to Zambia, from the heart of bustling major cities to the furthest and most remote reaches of the earth.
LIFE IN A DAY brings together the most compelling YouTube footage into a 90-minute film, crafted by Macdonald, editor Joe Walker, Executive Producer Ridley Scott, Producer Liza Marshall and their team, to offer a unique experience that shows, in beautiful, humorous and joyful honesty, what it’s like to be alive on earth today.
LIFE IN A DAY will be released in theaters by National Geographic Entertainment on July 29, 2011.
90 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday
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National Geographic Entertainment, YouTube.com and SCOTT FREE FILMS
Present
A film made possible by LG
LIFE IN A DAY
Opening in New York on July 29, 2011
at the Village East Cinema and Clearview Cinemas 1st & 62nd
Oscar®-winning film director Kevin Macdonald’s LIFE IN A DAY is an idea borne out of a unique partnership between Ridley Scott’s Scott Free UK and YouTube. The film is a user-generated feature-length documentary, shot on a single day - July 24, 2010 - that enlisted the global community to capture a moment of their lives on camera.
The world responded by submitting more than 80,000 videos to YouTube, representing over 4,500 hours of deeply personal, powerful films from contributors from Australia to Zambia, from the heart of bustling major cities to the furthest and most remote reaches of the earth.
LIFE IN A DAY brings together the most compelling YouTube footage into a 90-minute film, crafted by Macdonald, editor Joe Walker, Executive Producer Ridley Scott, Producer Liza Marshall and their team, to offer a unique experience that shows, in beautiful, humorous and joyful honesty, what it’s like to be alive on earth today.
LIFE IN A DAY will be released in theaters by National Geographic Entertainment on July 29, 2011.
90 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday
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Press release
First Run Features to Release Award-Winning Documentary
CIRCO
In theatres beginning April 1, 2011 in New York
April 8th in Los Angeles, with other cities to follow
First Run Features will open Aaron Schock's award-winning film CIRCO, at New York’s IFC Center on Friday April 1st, 2011 with a national roll out to follow.
Aaron Schock’s acclaimed film, which has appeared at many world festivals and is the most recent winner of the Jury Award at the Hampton’s International Film Festival, is one of the most compelling documentaries seen in years. Set in the cinematically rich milieu of a century-old traveling circus in rural Mexico, CIRCO follows the family-run "Circo Mexico" as they struggle to stay together despite mounting debt, dwindling audiences, and a simmering family conflict.
The hardscrabble founders, the Ponce family, have lived and performed on the back roads of Mexico since the 19th century. Tino, the ringmaster, is driven by his dream to lead his parents' circus to greater success. He corrals the energy of his whole family, including his parents, his brother and his four young children, towards this singular goal.
But his wife Ivonne is determined to make a change. Feeling exploited by her in-laws, she longs to return her kids to a childhood lost to laboring in the circus. Through an intricately woven story of a marriage in trouble and of a century-old family tradition that hangs in the balance, CIRCO asks: To whom and to what should we ultimately owe our allegiances?
Gorgeously filmed along the back roads of rural Mexico, CIRCO is a road movie that opens the viewer to the luminous world of a traveling circus while examining the universal themes of family bonds, filial responsibility, and the weight of cultural inheritance.
An original score by indie rockers Calexico rounds out this film.
Aaron Schock (Director / Producer / Cinematographer / Writer) is a Columbia University graduate and worked for several years in non-profit community development in New York City before moving into filmmaking. CIRCO is his first feature.
First Run Features has been a leading indie film distributor since 1979. Last year the company celebrated its 30th Anniversary with a retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Recent releases include Joe Berlinger's CRUDE, the Academy Award-nominated documentary THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: DANIEL ELLSBERG AND THE PENTAGON PAPERS, and KINGS OF PASTRY, from the legendary filmmaking team of D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.
CIRCO
75 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles, 35mm & Digital, Dolby SRD, 2010, Documentary
Director/Producer/Camera/Sound: Aaron Schock
Editor: Mark Becker
Producer: Jannat Gargi
Writer: Aaron Schock and Mark Becker
Executive Producer: Sally Jo Fifer
Assistant Editor: Viviana Diaz
Editorial Consultants: Richard Hankin and Paola Gutierrez-Ortiz
Sound Edit & Mix: Ron Bochar, C5/NYC
Original Score: Calexico
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First Run Features to Release Award-Winning Documentary
CIRCO
In theatres beginning April 1, 2011 in New York
April 8th in Los Angeles, with other cities to follow
First Run Features will open Aaron Schock's award-winning film CIRCO, at New York’s IFC Center on Friday April 1st, 2011 with a national roll out to follow.
Aaron Schock’s acclaimed film, which has appeared at many world festivals and is the most recent winner of the Jury Award at the Hampton’s International Film Festival, is one of the most compelling documentaries seen in years. Set in the cinematically rich milieu of a century-old traveling circus in rural Mexico, CIRCO follows the family-run "Circo Mexico" as they struggle to stay together despite mounting debt, dwindling audiences, and a simmering family conflict.
The hardscrabble founders, the Ponce family, have lived and performed on the back roads of Mexico since the 19th century. Tino, the ringmaster, is driven by his dream to lead his parents' circus to greater success. He corrals the energy of his whole family, including his parents, his brother and his four young children, towards this singular goal.
But his wife Ivonne is determined to make a change. Feeling exploited by her in-laws, she longs to return her kids to a childhood lost to laboring in the circus. Through an intricately woven story of a marriage in trouble and of a century-old family tradition that hangs in the balance, CIRCO asks: To whom and to what should we ultimately owe our allegiances?
Gorgeously filmed along the back roads of rural Mexico, CIRCO is a road movie that opens the viewer to the luminous world of a traveling circus while examining the universal themes of family bonds, filial responsibility, and the weight of cultural inheritance.
An original score by indie rockers Calexico rounds out this film.
Aaron Schock (Director / Producer / Cinematographer / Writer) is a Columbia University graduate and worked for several years in non-profit community development in New York City before moving into filmmaking. CIRCO is his first feature.
First Run Features has been a leading indie film distributor since 1979. Last year the company celebrated its 30th Anniversary with a retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Recent releases include Joe Berlinger's CRUDE, the Academy Award-nominated documentary THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: DANIEL ELLSBERG AND THE PENTAGON PAPERS, and KINGS OF PASTRY, from the legendary filmmaking team of D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.
CIRCO
75 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles, 35mm & Digital, Dolby SRD, 2010, Documentary
Director/Producer/Camera/Sound: Aaron Schock
Editor: Mark Becker
Producer: Jannat Gargi
Writer: Aaron Schock and Mark Becker
Executive Producer: Sally Jo Fifer
Assistant Editor: Viviana Diaz
Editorial Consultants: Richard Hankin and Paola Gutierrez-Ortiz
Sound Edit & Mix: Ron Bochar, C5/NYC
Original Score: Calexico
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2011 Academy Award-Nominated Documentary Short Films:
Program "A" [3 short documentaries]
Opens in NYC on Friday Feb. 11, 2011 @ the IFC Center
KILLING IN THE NAME
USA/39 MIN
Director: Jed Rothstein
Producer: Jed Rothstein, Liz Garbus, Rory Kennedy
Ashraf Al-Khaled was celebrating the happiest day of his life when a suicide bomber walked into his wedding and killed his father and twenty-six other family members in front of his eyes. Now, he’s rising from horrific tragedy to take an unprecedented step–breaking the code of silence in the Muslim community by speaking out against terrorism. Killing in the Name follows Ashraf’s quest to understand what gives rise to terrorism and expose its true costs. From an Al-Qaeda recruiter, to a militant behind one of the world’s worst terrorist attacks, to a madrassa full of boys ready for jihad, Ashraf takes us on a journey around the world to see if one man can speak truth to terror.
SUN COME UP
USA, Papua New Guinea/38 MIN
Director/Producer: Jennifer Redfearn
Producer/Cinematographer: Tim Metzger
Sun Come Up follows the relocation of some of the world’s first environmental refugees, the Carteret Islanders – a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean. When rising seas threaten their survival, the islanders face a painful decision: they must leave their beloved land in search of a new place to call home.
THE WARRIORS OF QIUGANG
USA/39 MIN
Director: Ruby Yang
Writer: Thomas Lennon
Producers: Thomas Lennon & Ruby Yang
Villagers in a remote district of central China take on a chemical company that is poisoning their water and air. For five years they fight to transform their environment and as they do, they find themselves transformed as well.
PROGRAM "A" Total running time 118 Minutes
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Program "B" (2 short docu's)
Opens Friday, February 11, 2011 @ the IFC Center-NYC
POSTER GIRL
USA/38 MIN
Director: Sara Nesson
Producer: Mitchell Block, Sara Nesson
Apple pie cheerleader turned tough-as-nails machine gunner in the Iraq War, Sgt. Robynn Murray comes home to face a new kind of battle she never anticipated.
STRANGERS NO MORE
USA/40 MIN
Directors/Producers: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from 48 different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin in the wake of poverty, political adversity and even genocide. Here, no child is a stranger.
PROGRAM "B" Total running time 78 Minutes
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Program "A" [3 short documentaries]
Opens in NYC on Friday Feb. 11, 2011 @ the IFC Center
KILLING IN THE NAME
USA/39 MIN
Director: Jed Rothstein
Producer: Jed Rothstein, Liz Garbus, Rory Kennedy
Ashraf Al-Khaled was celebrating the happiest day of his life when a suicide bomber walked into his wedding and killed his father and twenty-six other family members in front of his eyes. Now, he’s rising from horrific tragedy to take an unprecedented step–breaking the code of silence in the Muslim community by speaking out against terrorism. Killing in the Name follows Ashraf’s quest to understand what gives rise to terrorism and expose its true costs. From an Al-Qaeda recruiter, to a militant behind one of the world’s worst terrorist attacks, to a madrassa full of boys ready for jihad, Ashraf takes us on a journey around the world to see if one man can speak truth to terror.
SUN COME UP
USA, Papua New Guinea/38 MIN
Director/Producer: Jennifer Redfearn
Producer/Cinematographer: Tim Metzger
Sun Come Up follows the relocation of some of the world’s first environmental refugees, the Carteret Islanders – a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean. When rising seas threaten their survival, the islanders face a painful decision: they must leave their beloved land in search of a new place to call home.
THE WARRIORS OF QIUGANG
USA/39 MIN
Director: Ruby Yang
Writer: Thomas Lennon
Producers: Thomas Lennon & Ruby Yang
Villagers in a remote district of central China take on a chemical company that is poisoning their water and air. For five years they fight to transform their environment and as they do, they find themselves transformed as well.
PROGRAM "A" Total running time 118 Minutes
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Program "B" (2 short docu's)
Opens Friday, February 11, 2011 @ the IFC Center-NYC
POSTER GIRL
USA/38 MIN
Director: Sara Nesson
Producer: Mitchell Block, Sara Nesson
Apple pie cheerleader turned tough-as-nails machine gunner in the Iraq War, Sgt. Robynn Murray comes home to face a new kind of battle she never anticipated.
STRANGERS NO MORE
USA/40 MIN
Directors/Producers: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from 48 different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin in the wake of poverty, political adversity and even genocide. Here, no child is a stranger.
PROGRAM "B" Total running time 78 Minutes
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Press release
Clay Way Media Presents
Carbon Nation
Opens in New York Feb. 11, 2011
Carbon Nation is an optimistic, solutions-based, non-partisan documentary that illustrates why it’s incredibly smart to be a part of the new, low-carbon economy: it’s good business, it emboldens national and energy security, and it improves health and the environment.
Through a cast of engaging and endearing characters from across the country, in towns big and small, Carbon Nation introduces us to the new wave of American ingenuity. From one-armed Texas cotton farmer Cliff Etheridge, who is banding together small farmers’ land to create one enormous wind farm, to green jobs innovator Van Jones, who is bringing clean technology and jobs to inner cities, it’s clear that the creative solutions needed to combat climate change are already being created by entrepreneurs, visionaries, scientists, and the everyday man. By bringing their innovations to light, Carbon Nation is a film that celebrates solutions and inspires action.
CARBON NATION is directed by Peter Byck and written by Byck, Eric Driscoll, Matt Weinhold, and Karen Weigert. Producers are Peter Byck, Craig Sieben, Karen Weigert, Artemis Joukowsky, and Chrisna van Zyl. Executive Producers are Paula Crown, Gigi Pritzker Nick Pritzker, Peggy and Henry Sharpe, and The Lemelson Foundation.
Narrated by Bill Kurtis, the cast includes: Richard Branson (CEO, Virgin Group), Thomas L. Friedman (The New York Times), Former CIA Director James Woolsey, Van Jones (Founder, Green For All), Col. Dan Nolan, U.S. Army (Ret), Bernie Karl (Geothermal pioneer from Alaska), Denis Hayes (Founder of Earth Day), Cliff Etheredge (West Texas wind pioneer), and more climate change pioneers.
www.carbonnationmovie.com
This film is unrated Running time is 82 minutes
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Clay Way Media Presents
Carbon Nation
Opens in New York Feb. 11, 2011
Carbon Nation is an optimistic, solutions-based, non-partisan documentary that illustrates why it’s incredibly smart to be a part of the new, low-carbon economy: it’s good business, it emboldens national and energy security, and it improves health and the environment.
Through a cast of engaging and endearing characters from across the country, in towns big and small, Carbon Nation introduces us to the new wave of American ingenuity. From one-armed Texas cotton farmer Cliff Etheridge, who is banding together small farmers’ land to create one enormous wind farm, to green jobs innovator Van Jones, who is bringing clean technology and jobs to inner cities, it’s clear that the creative solutions needed to combat climate change are already being created by entrepreneurs, visionaries, scientists, and the everyday man. By bringing their innovations to light, Carbon Nation is a film that celebrates solutions and inspires action.
CARBON NATION is directed by Peter Byck and written by Byck, Eric Driscoll, Matt Weinhold, and Karen Weigert. Producers are Peter Byck, Craig Sieben, Karen Weigert, Artemis Joukowsky, and Chrisna van Zyl. Executive Producers are Paula Crown, Gigi Pritzker Nick Pritzker, Peggy and Henry Sharpe, and The Lemelson Foundation.
Narrated by Bill Kurtis, the cast includes: Richard Branson (CEO, Virgin Group), Thomas L. Friedman (The New York Times), Former CIA Director James Woolsey, Van Jones (Founder, Green For All), Col. Dan Nolan, U.S. Army (Ret), Bernie Karl (Geothermal pioneer from Alaska), Denis Hayes (Founder of Earth Day), Cliff Etheredge (West Texas wind pioneer), and more climate change pioneers.
www.carbonnationmovie.com
This film is unrated Running time is 82 minutes
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Press release
Can a psychedelic plant release your demons?
I'M DANGEROUS WITH LOVE
An underground adventure into shamanic ritual
Opens at New York’s IFC Film Center on Wednesday January 12, 2011
I'M DANGEROUS WITH LOVE is about addiction and rehabilitation, activism and shamanism. It features Dimitri Mugianis, once the heavily addicted front man for the band Leisure Class, who finally ended his long drug and alcohol addiction with an experimental treatment that uses the hallucinogen Ibogaine, and now devotes his life to helping others overcome addiction through the treatment.
I'M DANGEROUS WITH LOVE will open in New York at the IFC Film Center on January 12, 2011, with other cities to follow. First Run Features will release the film on DVD in Spring 2011.
African shamans have used Ibogaine in their rituals for centuries, but in the US it is classified as a Schedule 1 controlled substance and illegal, so Dimitri must work in underground networks to guide addicts through the same detox that he says saved his life.
I'M DANGEROUS WITH LOVE traces Dimitri's risky journey as he treats desperate drug users. It follows this man of edgy energy as he goes from one addict to the next without stopping to catch his breath. It also follows him on his own search for recovery when one session goes bad in a remote snowed-in Canadian home, and a quiet young man almost dies. Dimitri must decide whether or not to continue his mission. Is he serving the addicts or simply releasing his own demons? To find answers, Dimitri travels to Gabon, West Africa, to consult with Bwiti shamans, and puts himself through a punishing Iboga initiation. Filmmaker Michel Negroponte follows him on this journey to find his own answers.
Director Michel Negroponte is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker with such directing credits as "Space Coast," "Silver Valley," "Jupiter's Wife", "No Accident," "W.I.S.O.R." and "The Sightseer." His feature length documentary, "Methadonia," premiered at the New York Film Festival in September 2005 and was aired on HBO in the United States a few weeks later. In 1995, "Jupiter's Wife" was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Prize for Best Feature Documentary at the Vancouver Film Festival and the Santa Barbara Film Festival. The film was also awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Documentary.
In addition to his own work, he has worked in a producing capacity on many other films, among them "Bookwars" by Jason Rosette, "Fastpitch" by Jeremy Spear, the Academy Award-nominated "Children Underground" by Edet Belzberg, and "Manhattan, Kansas" by Tara Wray. In 2007, he produced "Orthodox Stance," a feature documentary directed by Jason Hutt about a young religious boxer named Dmitry Salita.
Negroponte has also taught in the graduate and undergraduate film programs at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and Temple University. Recently, he helped create a new graduate program in documentary filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he is part of the faculty.
I'M DANGEROUS WITH LOVE
2009 85 minutes, USA, digital video, English, Color
Directed by Michel Negroponte • Written by Nick Pappas and Joni Wehrli • Animation by Lisa Crafts • Music and Sound Design by Brooks Williams and Beo Morales • Photographed and Edited by Michel Negroponte • Executive Producers Julie Goldman, Krysanne Katsoolis, Caroline Stevens • Produced by Blackbridge Productions in association with Cactus Three
MOVIE/filmaker website-michelnegroponte.com/imdangerouswithlove.html
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Can a psychedelic plant release your demons?
I'M DANGEROUS WITH LOVE
An underground adventure into shamanic ritual
Opens at New York’s IFC Film Center on Wednesday January 12, 2011
I'M DANGEROUS WITH LOVE is about addiction and rehabilitation, activism and shamanism. It features Dimitri Mugianis, once the heavily addicted front man for the band Leisure Class, who finally ended his long drug and alcohol addiction with an experimental treatment that uses the hallucinogen Ibogaine, and now devotes his life to helping others overcome addiction through the treatment.
I'M DANGEROUS WITH LOVE will open in New York at the IFC Film Center on January 12, 2011, with other cities to follow. First Run Features will release the film on DVD in Spring 2011.
African shamans have used Ibogaine in their rituals for centuries, but in the US it is classified as a Schedule 1 controlled substance and illegal, so Dimitri must work in underground networks to guide addicts through the same detox that he says saved his life.
I'M DANGEROUS WITH LOVE traces Dimitri's risky journey as he treats desperate drug users. It follows this man of edgy energy as he goes from one addict to the next without stopping to catch his breath. It also follows him on his own search for recovery when one session goes bad in a remote snowed-in Canadian home, and a quiet young man almost dies. Dimitri must decide whether or not to continue his mission. Is he serving the addicts or simply releasing his own demons? To find answers, Dimitri travels to Gabon, West Africa, to consult with Bwiti shamans, and puts himself through a punishing Iboga initiation. Filmmaker Michel Negroponte follows him on this journey to find his own answers.
Director Michel Negroponte is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker with such directing credits as "Space Coast," "Silver Valley," "Jupiter's Wife", "No Accident," "W.I.S.O.R." and "The Sightseer." His feature length documentary, "Methadonia," premiered at the New York Film Festival in September 2005 and was aired on HBO in the United States a few weeks later. In 1995, "Jupiter's Wife" was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Prize for Best Feature Documentary at the Vancouver Film Festival and the Santa Barbara Film Festival. The film was also awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Documentary.
In addition to his own work, he has worked in a producing capacity on many other films, among them "Bookwars" by Jason Rosette, "Fastpitch" by Jeremy Spear, the Academy Award-nominated "Children Underground" by Edet Belzberg, and "Manhattan, Kansas" by Tara Wray. In 2007, he produced "Orthodox Stance," a feature documentary directed by Jason Hutt about a young religious boxer named Dmitry Salita.
Negroponte has also taught in the graduate and undergraduate film programs at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and Temple University. Recently, he helped create a new graduate program in documentary filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he is part of the faculty.
I'M DANGEROUS WITH LOVE
2009 85 minutes, USA, digital video, English, Color
Directed by Michel Negroponte • Written by Nick Pappas and Joni Wehrli • Animation by Lisa Crafts • Music and Sound Design by Brooks Williams and Beo Morales • Photographed and Edited by Michel Negroponte • Executive Producers Julie Goldman, Krysanne Katsoolis, Caroline Stevens • Produced by Blackbridge Productions in association with Cactus Three
MOVIE/filmaker website-michelnegroponte.com/imdangerouswithlove.html
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