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Check out the audio interview (with a slide show - production photos & art related to the film) with Cookies & Cream director Princeton Holt , conducted by Jon Ashby of Common Film, here .

For more on Ryan Balas & Carter, go here . The DVD of Carter is now available for purchase. And here is the trailer to the film: Carter Trailer from Ryan Balas on Vimeo . :: ADVERTISEMENT Alfonse Maiorino  - Italian Genealogy, Public Strategy Group, & more! -  http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/ Blogger: User Profile: alfonse maiorino http://www.blogger.com/profile/01850766319936497029 Alfonse Maiorino / Al Maiorino blog  -  almaiorino .blogspot.com/ Alfonse Maiorino -  Linkedin http://almaiorino.blogspot.com/2012/04/al-maiorino-linkedin.html New Projects COMING SOON at: Alfonse Maiorino blog 2 http://alfonsemaiorino2.blogspot.com/2012/04/blogger-user-profile-alfonse-maiorino.html Alfonse Maiorino blog 3 http://alfonsemaiorino3.blogspot.com/2012/04/blogger-user-profile-alfonse-maiorino.html Alfonse Maiorino blog 4 http://alfonsemaiorino4.blogspot.com/2012/04/alfonse-maiorino-blogger-profile.html Alfonse Maiorino blog

I am glad this is happening - read about one example of filmmakers getting more seriously into distribution at this indieWIRE article about the new distribution company 7-57 Releasing . But on to the lower levels financially, to the DIY world - this same approach - creating more robust distribution operations for independent/off-Hollywood movies - can be done also by DIY filmmakers. The difference between this approach - I am calling it Distribution Crews when we apply it to DIY filmmakers & our projects - and DIY self-distribution from 2 years ago is that the former one relied exclusively or mostly on the filmmaker having to get the distribution work done. But in this new approach, the filmmaker would take the role that a DIY/indie writer/producer/director would take during production - organizing & directing several other people in order to accomplish a complex task. How would this actually manifest in the real world? Let's say I finish a movie, and I want to show it for

I believe this is the official debut of the title of my new fiction feature - previously referred to on this blog as Brooklyn Movie - and the title is Brooklyn Fantastic . The website for the film will come alive in April, but in the meantime Brooklyn Fantastic production news can be found at its production blog , launched today. From the welcome message on the Brooklyn Fantastic blog : "Welcome to the production blog for the 2009 feature comedy-drama Brooklyn Fantastic - a film about attempting to start over in a new city & searching for a valuable object. BF stars Susan Buice (Four Eyed Monsters), Amir Motlagh (Whale), and features several other talented actors from the emerging NYC DIY/new independent film community. BF is written & directed by Sujewa Ekanayake (Date Number One)." Vist the BF blog here . - Sujewa :: ADVERTISEMENT Alfonse Maiorino  - Italian Genealogy, Public Strategy Group, & more! -  http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/

I won't be at SXSW so I'll have to catch this very interesting looking movie some other time, but, for folks who are gonna be in Austin next week, here are the screening times (as of today) for Ry Russo-Young's new movie: " Narrative Feature :: screening in: Special Screenings Screening Times 9:30 PM, Friday March 13th - Alamo Lamar 2 Add this to my SXSW Calendar 7:30 PM, Tuesday March 17th - Alamo Ritz 2 Add this to my SXSW Calendar 7:30 PM, Friday March 20th - Alamo Lamar 3 Add this to my SXSW Calendar everything subject to change" From this page at the SXSW '09 site . :: ADVERTISEMENT Alfonse Maiorino  - Italian Genealogy, Public Strategy Group, & more! -  http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/ Blogger: User Profile: alfonse maiorino http://www.blogger.com/profile/01850766319936497029 Alfonse Maiorino / Al Maiorino blog  -  almaiorino .blogspot.com/ Alfonse Maiorino -  Linkedin http://almaiorino.blogspot.com/2012/04/al-maior

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Here's an episode from Anne Flournoy's show The Louise Log :