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Check it out here. Here's the URelieL: http://www.myspace.com/69525376 . The page is pretty basic right now, more stuff will be added this month. Thanks! - Sujewa

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Suspicious? John Stabb Schroeder as the ninja Mark H. Temonium from the upcoming film Date Number One . Photo Copyright 2005 Sujewa Ekanayake/Wild Diner Films Hilarious (& a little sad, sorry ninja dude) news story about ATF agents taking down a student dressed as a ninja. Thanks to The Ugly Betty Blog for the link. Check out the comments to the story for further entertainment. - Sujewa

Always nice to find new, interesting & possibly relevant web sites. The find of the day is the web page for GreenCine PR. Page lists promotional info. related to GreenCine, the VOD & DVD rental by mail company (& the people who pay the bills for the #1 super fantastic happy monkey juice syrupy creme caramel film blog GreenCine Daily ). I am still trying to find the website for Goodbye Cruel Releasing. Just found out that they will be releasing Andrew Bujalski's low key charmer "Mutual Appreciation". If anyone's got the URL for the Goodbye Cruel Releasing website, lemme know. Thanksalot! Sujewa

Yup, would have liked to have seen Brick tonight. But since Mark Cuban has not reversed his decision to ban Caveh Zahedi's I Am A Sex Addict from playing at his Landmark theaters in Comcast markets, I am still trying to stay away from Landmark. Almost gave in, nothing too interesting was playing in town, except for Brick. But Brick was playing at a Landmark theater - E St. in DC. So, instead of seeing Brick I saw V For Vendetta at Uptown. V is a pretty good movie, liked it. And Uptown is a nice theater to see a movie in, gigantic screen. Would have been nice to give my $s & time to the indie Brick, but couldn't, due to Landmark. I guess I'll see Brick on DVD, as long as a Cuban owned company is not putting it out. - Sujewa

Sound Design For Indies Class By Kelley Baker , Sound Designer on 6 Gus Van Sant movies What : Sound Design For Indie Films Class Who : By Kelley Baker, Sound Designer on 6 Gus Van Sant movies (“My Own Private Idaho” to “Finding Forrester“, and also on Todd Haynes’ “Far From Heaven”) When : Wednesday April 19, 2006, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Where : Kensington Row Bookshop 3786 Howard Ave. Kensington, MD 20895 venue phone (for directions only, see Contact for other needs): 301-949-9416 How Much : $30 Contact (local/DC event producer): Sujewa Ekanayake, wilddiner@aol.com , 240-354-3394 Contact (instructor): Kelley Baker, Angryfilminfo@aol.com , 503-329-6112 Additional Info: Sound Design for Independent Filmmakers "We'll fix it in the mix..." is an often heard expression, but what does it mean? As a sound designer it means you're in trouble. As the Sound Designer on Gus Van Sant's films, as well as animated features, network television specials and his own features, Kell

4/11/06 Village Voice article by Anthony Kaufman http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0615,kaufman,72822,5.html Check out the entire article, there is a good Spike Lee mention & quote in there too. Here's a paragraph from the article: "Indeed, the terrible irony of AIVF's current crisis, says McKay, "is that there is a greater need in this country for the activist part of AIVF now more than ever." As the major studios shut down new technologies that could help independent artists distribute their films (e.g., Grokster), as government institutions intermix with private companies to limit the availability of public information (e.g., the Smithsonian's recent deal with Showtime to privatize its archives), and as the Senate guts "net neutrality" provisions from a telecommunications bill, "there needs to be an organization that is lobbying Congress," says McKay, "that is dealing with broadband issues, that is shining a spotlight on grass

Read all about it here at filmmaker Caveh "I Am A Sex Addict" Zahedi's blog: http://blogs.indiewire.com/caveh/archive/007777.html - Sujewa

http://indiefeatures06.blogspot.com/2006/04/september-12th-wins-best-feature-at.html " September 12th wins Best Feature at Longbaugh! I am happy to announce that September 12th just won the Best Feature Award at the 2006 Longbaugh Film Festival in Portland, OR. It has been a great festival, and we are very thankful to David Walker and Joe Lesher of Willamette Week , the festival directors. There will be a repeat screening tonight of the film. posted by Magicfying @ 4:38 PM "

I wanted to give at least some of the interested DC area people a chance to check out my brand spanking new superdelicious feature Date Number One before it has its world premiere in Seattle in late May. So, a small preview screening has been set up at the Kensington Row Bookshop, a Capital City Microcinema event, for Fri May 12 @ 7 PM. $5. More info. on the film & the preview screening coming this week. Thanks! - Sujewa