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Closing night of the Kensington run was excellent

OK, the Date Number One Kensington, MD 7/12 - 18 run is now over. Tonight was great - had the second highest daily turnout for the run - 14 people. People enjoyed the movie, and there was a couple of good discussions re: the movie after the show. I believe about 55 people saw Date Number One during the run (will need to count the ticket stubs later). Got a bunch of photos & thoughts to post, will get to that tomorrow.

Next for DNO: fine tuning the thing to 110% before setting up the next screening, making DVDs for sale.

Up soon at this blog: AJ Schnack interview re: Kurt Cobain About A Son, Amir Motlagh interview re: knock.knock and other work, and a long conversation with both the director and the star of the doc Water Flowing Together. That stuff should be up before the end of July.

A big thanks goes out to everyone who made the 7/12 - 18 run possible, and to everyone who attended the event. Looking forward to the next DNO screening - probably in the fall, probably in NYC.

Very happy about all the press that the run generated. Specially the Gazette article that showed up in over 5 different Gazette papers/in 5 different area cities. The article came out in Kensington today. The press should help a lot with DVD sales & rentals in Montgomery County & DC area.

- Sujewa

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