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Read about it (& follow the links) at Still in Motion blog . - Sujewa

Let's see...in a country with generally high standards of law & order & citizen/resident security, & generally well managed police departments, & an all volunteer military that has not been used as a large scale instrument of oppression by the government against citizens & residents, and with private security at theme parks & other large recreational destinations, a gun rights advocacy group wants employees of a kids theme park to be able to bring guns to work. Is this - Disney World employees with easy access to guns at work - remotely related to the intentions of the framers of the Constitution ? Um, probably NOT. While Disney battles it out with a misguided NRA, you can read all about the dispute at this AOL article . From the article: "What part of the 2nd Amendment does Mickey Mouse not understand? That's the question the NRA wants answered in light of the decision made by Walt Disney World to prohibit their employees from keeping fire arm...

Brian Geldin speaks with Tambay Obenson about his feature Beautiful Things and other matters; check it out here . A little bit of the conversation: " TFPN: How did the idea of Beautiful Things come about? Obenson: I’ve always been interested in exploring relationship dynamics. We seem to spend a significant part of our lives in some stage of coupling – we’re either looking for a partner, or we are with a partner and are working to make the relationship long-lasting. The need for companionship is after all very human. I wanted to deconstruct that notion on film." Read the rest here . Go here to buy the Beautiful Things DVD from Amazon . - Sujewa

From Carnivalesque Films : "June 4, 2008 - Carnivalesque Films will release the Award Winning documentary MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA in stores everywhere on July 29, 2008. Winner of twenty national and international awards, Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the naked streets of New Orleans during Carnival – where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity – to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China – where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night. Blending curiosity with comedy, Mardi Gras: Made in China is the only film to explore how the toxic products directly affect the people who both make and consume them. Carnivalesque Films is a new production and distribution company whose goal is to explore how personal stories relate to complex social issues. David Redmon and Ashley Sabin - directors of the award winning films KAMP KATRINA and INTIMIDAD - founded Carnivalesque Films and will release three award winning films ORP...

There are people - types, let's say - that may, in the future, be considered unique folklore figures from the turn of the 21st century; such as people who make a healthy living selling items on the web. These people exist, for most of us, in entrepreneur profile pieces on magazines, newspapers, & the web itself. But I met one of these people recently - a real live one, in the flesh. Dude is relatively young, lives in a Montgomery County, MD suburb, got a small family, and the basement of his large house is full of used and rare books. His work day consists of listing books for sale on Amazon, and then fulfilling orders (sometimes around 40 orders a day he said), & also going out & buying new merchandise/books for selling. Dude is an expert in his specialty (also has broad knowledge of many subjects; history, art, etc.) - specializes in one type of books, and knows his sector of the market well. Dude needed help; had tons of books to enter into Amazon, and I cou...

From Dennis Lim's NYT article on The Exiles: "In focusing on the first wave of Indians relocated in the 1950s by the Bureau of Indian Affairs , “The Exiles” documents a displacement that Mr. Alexie says has received scant notice from a younger generation of Indians. “None of us made that movie,” he said. “Nobody writes about the relocated anymore. In a sense that first generation has been abandoned even by other Natives.” He added: “They were the immigrants, and by and large everybody in America loves to pretend they’ve always been here, even the people who’ve always been here. Ignoring the first generation of immigrants makes you feel like you’ve always belonged.”" Read the rest here . More Exiles links at GreenCine Daily . - Sujewa

That's IndiePix Studio action; a new website from IndiePix, w/ new services for filmmakers; site is at www.indiepixstudios.com . From the announcement post : "Since its launch, IndiePix has worked with over 150 filmmakers, including director Jennifer Venditti and producer Chiemi Karasawa on the award-winning documentary essay ‘Billy the Kid’, and Jeremy and Randy Stulberg on compelling American lifestyle documentary ‘Off the Grid’. The website’s primary objective will be to increase the transparency and visibility of individual filmmakers’ earnings from IndiePixfilms.com by providing up-to-date online sales and rental information." Sounds great, more here at the IndiePix blog , and at the studio site itself. - Sujewa

At The Obenson Report . From the post: "So, there you have it! A ridiculous 6 films out of 300 (2%), released during the first 6 months of 2008, and every single one of them exists somewhere between "garbage" and "average," although I'd say most fall closer towards the former." More here . - Sujewa