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Fix

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Praised by Oliver Stone and winner of Best Film Awards at the Vail and Santa Barbara film festivals, emerging American indie director Tao Ruspoli’s Fix is an eye-popping ride through a single day in L.A. that captures the jumpy irony and restless action of Southern California’s new multicultural realities. It follows a young documentary filmmaker and his girlfriend, who abandon their day’s shoot to accompany his brother to an 8 p.m. court-appointed surrender at rehab. The duo manage to get in way over their heads in a series of incidents that include buying the world’s most unconvincing police dog, reselling several pounds of marijuana and visiting a cat toy factory. In between all this is a rapid-fire and partially deadpan tour through a virtually unrecognizable Los Angeles and environs. With a dynamite cast of up-and-comers (Shawn Andrews, Olivia Wilde, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Dedee Pfeiffer), Fix is funny, fast, anguished, fluid and gripping—sometimes all at once.

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International Shorts III

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Short films screening in this program include: Instead of Abracadabra, Primitive Technology, Tony Zear, The Skooks, Spider, Dog Altogether

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Highest Rated Films

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Sheltered Life

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Summerhood

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Most Visited Films

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Growing Op

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Blindness

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Most Scheduled Films

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Blindness

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Adoration

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Down to the Dirt DVD Out Now!

I just received this message in my inbox today:

Hey everyone - Down to the Dirt was released on DVD today! Check out your local video store for rentals. It's also available for sale at Amazon.ca and Chapters.ca. There will also be copies for sale soon at Fred's Records, The Travel Bug and The Downhomer in St. John's, NL.

To those who did not get a chance to check out Down to the Dirt at the Atlantic Film Festival or in its theatrical run I highly recommend checking the film out. You can find more information on the film at www.downtothedirt.com

Posted: Mar. 25, 2009 at 10:26AM by Mark Flindall

Film Festival Secrets: A Handbook for Independent Filmmakers

I'm not in the business of promoting books (that I know of), but when a book is free (for real) and has the potential to make my life easier, I just have to help spread the good word. That book is Film Festival Secrets: A Handbook for Independent Filmmakers by Chris Holland the Director of Festival Operations at B-Side (who if you have never heard of you should check out, very cool company that is taking a stab at distribution with the great film RiP: A Remix Manifesto that will be playing at our youth festival ViewFinders). In it Chris outlines a solid plan of attack for those filmmakers who are new to the film festival scene (or who just need a new plan of attack). Speaking from my own experience as a film festival programmer (and as the person who actually handles film submissions) the book rings very true. I have seen all of the problems that Chris outlines in his book (a lot) and overall they are easy things to correct if you just have a good roadmap for how the festival circuit works.

In Chris's own words the book will help you:

• Select the right festival for your film
• Prepare your festival screener
• Save money on festival fees
• Create marketing collateral
• Craft a screening sell-out plan
• And more!

You can buy it in print from Amazon.com or you download it for free (yes, free) from filmfestivalsecrets.com.

When something is free, what do you have to lose checking it out? Also make sure to follow Chris's Twitter feed (because the whole world loves Twitter now, right?) to keep up with all things independent film.

By the way now that you know about the book, filmmakers with inane questions are hereby put on notice. So go get your reading caps on and get to work. You're welcome.

Posted: Mar. 17, 2009 at 9:05AM by Mark Flindall

The Limits of Control