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			<title><![CDATA[Entertainment Weekly Article - L__szl__ and Vilmo]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA['70s behind-the-camera greats: How Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond put the cinema in cinematography

Last night on PBS, I caught the reverent and fascinating documentary No Subtitles Necessary: L__szl__ &amp; Vilmos, a look at the art, influence, and longtime brotherly friendship of the two most fabled Hollywood cinematographers of the 1970s, L__szl__ Kov__cs and Vilmos Zsigmond. Like anyone else immersed in the classic American movies of that time (and, really, who isn___t?), I knew who these two men were, understood a few things about their art, and had a dim awareness of the fact (coincidence ___ or something more?) that they were both Hungarian __migr__s.

I was amazed, though, at how much I didn___t know, starting with the nearly poetic fact that their baptism in cinematography occurred when the Soviet tanks came rolling through Budapest in 1956. The two, who were then film students, grabbed their cameras, shot the protests and the violent crackdown, and then smuggled the footage out of the country under the noses of Soviet guards. What I love about this story is that it captures how, for Kov__cs and Zsigmond, photographing movies was, from the start, something raw and essential and existential and real. It was those qualities that they imprinted upon the visual atmosphere of American movies, changing the face of an art form in the process.

The two started out on the grimy indie-exploitation fringes of Hollywood, shooting schlock horror and nudie-cutie films, where they were often billed as ___Leslie Kovacs___ and ___William Zsigmond.___ Easy Rider, which really kicked off the revolution in cinematography, was conceived, at least by its backers, as just one more outlaw biker flick. But the people who created it had different ideas, and L__szl__ Kov__cs___ cinematography ___ those rangy and swirling documentary-like shots, the camera just about plummeting down the highway ___ all but defined the film. He shot the two hippie cyclists by planting his camera in a car with the back seat removed, and also by letting the glare of the sun bead into the shots, innovations that amounted to a kind of genius primitivism. Yet they___re still so vivid that, watching Easy Rider today, you feel like you___re right there in those landscapes.

If Kov__cs, a startlingly handsome ladies___ man, was cinematography___s first great dynamic wide-angle naturalist, the more obsessive (and volcanically tempered) Zsigmond was the smoky poetic realist. He set the benchmark for what authenticity in a movie could mean ___ what it could look like, and how it could make an audience feel ___ with the saturated fine-grain rustic dream images of McCabe &amp; Mrs. Miller, still the most realistic portrait of the West ever created. The two men went on to shoot dozens of classics between them, from Paper Moon, Shampoo, and New York, New York (Kov__cs) to Deliverance and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Zsigmond). What they invented was imitated all over the world, and still is.

I wish today___s filmmakers imitated it more, though. One of the most fascinating comments in No Subtitles Necessary comes from director Bob Rafelson, who used Kov__cs on Five Easy Pieces. He says: ___I___ve seen a thousand pictures shot in Los Angeles and a thousand pictures shot in Chicago, and they all look the same to me. When L__szl__ shoots, they look like Chicago and Los Angeles.___

That, more than anything, is what these two artists of the camera brought to movies in the ___70s: not just abstract grit or beauty or grandeur, but a sense of the individuality of things. They made every person, every place, every interior, every landscape look like itself. And that was, in hindsight, a blessed act of art.

If you had to choose, what are your all-time favorite examples of cinematography? And what movies can you think of in which the look of the film really is the film?]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:50:45 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[LA Times Article - L__szl__ and Vilmo]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[L__szl__ Kov__cs, Vilmos Zsigmond: Fade in on a friendship

It's a tale of friendship and survival that has become legend in Hollywood.

Two young Hungarians meet while studying cinema in Budapest and become swept up in the abortive Hungarian Revolution of 1956, risking their lives to film scenes of violent Soviet repression.

After a harrowing journey secreting the footage out of the country so it can be seen by the rest of the world, they end up in Los Angeles, where they toil anonymously in B-level biker films, wandering into Roger Corman's orbit. Soon after, both men flash to prominence filming several classic movies, playing important roles in the New Hollywood movement of the late '60s and '70s.

The real-life story of cinematographers L__szl__ Kov__cs and Vilmos Zsigmond is captured in the documentary &quot;No Subtitles Necessary: L__szl__ and Vilmos.&quot; Directed by James Chressanthis, it has entertained audiences at several film festivals including Cannes and will make its broadcast television debut for Southern California audiences on Thursday on KCET as part of the PBS &quot;Independent Lens&quot; series.

It was Corman, the prolific and imaginative B-movie impresario, who essentially introduced the young Hungarians to Hollywood, which at the time was going through as dramatic a cultural shift as the industry had ever experienced. Their interpretive, free-form and frequently experimental methods with lighting, angles and camera placement was particularly refreshing to the new generation of filmmakers and tonally in sync with the counterculture vibe of the era.

The gregarious Kov__cs, who died in 2007, shot &quot;Easy Rider&quot; for Dennis Hopper and then &quot;Five Easy Pieces&quot; for Bob Rafelson in 1970. Zsigmond, quieter and more serious than his friend, followed with &quot;McCabe &amp; Mrs. Miller&quot; for Robert Altman in 1971 and &quot;Deliverance&quot; for John Boorman in 1972. After that, the men became the go-to shooters for Hollywood's next generation of filmmakers, collaborating with Steven Spielberg, Peter Bogdanovich, Brian De Palma, Norman Jewison, Mark Rydell and many others.

Yet for all their success behind the camera, the friends never wanted to step in front of it until near the end of Kov__cs' life in 2006. That's when Chressanthis, cinematographer and a director on CBS' &quot;Ghost Whisperer,&quot; moved from the periphery of their lives to the foreground.

A quarter-century earlier, Chressanthis had met Kov__cs at an AFI seminar. A year later, as an AFI student, he won an internship assisting Zsigmond on &quot;The Witches of Eastwick.&quot; &quot;Jim was a bright fellow, I liked him, and he was very helpful,&quot; Zsigmond recalls. &quot;Eventually, [director George Miller] and I ended up deciding he could do a little second-unit work.&quot;

Gesture for a friend

Chressanthis' contribution to the film was a time-lapse shot of a bowl of rotting fruit, and today, he says that little sequence &quot;was like my master's thesis,&quot; launching his career as a cinematographer, cementing a friendship with Zsigmond and putting him on a path that eventually led to &quot;No Subtitles Necessary.&quot;

In 2006, at another AFI event, Chressanthis realized Kov__cs was extremely ill. At the urging of friends, he decided to ask the men if he could document their connected journey. Zsigmond had resisted earlier efforts but relented when Chressanthis approached.

He was pleased to see the project undertaken by a fellow cinematographer with an artistic understanding of their work and was also eager to help make the world aware of the accomplishments of his friend L__szl__, who Zsigmond feels never received the accolades he deserved. (Zsigmond has been nominated for four Oscars and won for 1977's &quot;Close Encounters of the Third Kind,&quot; but Kov__cs never received an Oscar nomination.)

&quot;I had turned down this idea previously,&quot; Zsigmond says. &quot;I wasn't interested in a movie about me, and I'm not comfortable in front of the camera. But by the time this idea came up, L__szl__ was very ill, and I was proud of our relationship and how we helped each other. That doesn't happen often in film circles. So I basically decided to do it for L__szl__. He was such a great cinematographer, and why he wasn't rewarded more is incredible. I thought I could help him by doing this movie and making sure people in the future remember his work.&quot;

Thus, Kov__cs sat for several interviews even as his strength waned (his last interview was just two weeks before his death), and the still-active Zsigmond made time despite a hectic schedule on location in North Carolina shooting Dan Pritzker's upcoming jazz film, &quot;Bolden!&quot;

Archival footage

Still, getting the film together was challenging in the run-up to Cannes 2008. Producer Zachary Kranzler says &quot;everyone gave their hearts to the project -- it was a true independent film.&quot; In that spirit, several industry vendors donated film stock, equipment, and facilities. Still without finishing funds, Chressanthis and producer David Kaminsky asked editor Elisa Bonora to cut the film while they hunted for post-production cash. Bonora ended up helping to make those funds appear by calling on personal contacts to bring three additional producers into the mix, adding a co-producer credit to her editor's title.

The documentarians also spent great effort picking through 200 hours of footage to locate archival material, including shots that were originally aired by Walter Cronkite on CBS showing the Soviet crackdown in Budapest -- footage Cronkite helped the filmmakers license from BBC Worldwide shortly before his death.

&quot;[The archival footage] was all chaos and confusion of war -- very grim,&quot; Chressanthis explains. &quot;But I think you can see in how [the two men] shot violence in their films that they were impacted by what they saw in the streets of Budapest. When L__szl__ laid a camera on the side of the road for the death sequence at the end of 'Easy Rider,' with it being so vivid and violent, you wonder, how did he sense that and capture that? The vivid nature of their cinematography, where does it come from?&quot;

As much as &quot;No Subtitles Necessary&quot; documents the professional successes of these cinematographers, it's mainly about their profound friendship and devotion to each other. Near the end of the documentary, Audrey Kov__cs illustrates that point, insisting that while she lost her husband in 2007, she isn't in fact his only widow.

&quot;Frankly, I think that L__szl__ had one widow, and it's Vilmos,&quot; she sighs. &quot;I think they were as close as two men could ever be.&quot;]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:49:18 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Dance For Bethany chosen as feature film at Preventing Abuse Conference]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE
September 2009
The PREVENTING ABUSE CONFFERENCE will show the multi-award-winning feature film A Dance For Bethany Friday evening, September 11th, 2009, Irvine Hilton, Orange County, California.  The film was chosen for its significance in the world movement against abuse.

This important two day conference includes prominent guest speakers on such relevant topics as human trafficking, child abduction, internet predators, extremists, and moral collapse as well as training to get involved in the effort. For details call 1-866-454-1776 or visit  www.preventingabuse.org. 
Little did Yvonne and Marion Williams know that the film business they started three years ago would turn into a crusade against human sex-trafficking. But as the Williams tell their story, &quot;God had a plan.&quot;
At the time, the former Bradenton, Florida natives were living in Asheville, N.C., in a grand house on a mountain overlooking the city. Yvonne Williams had just finished her first screenplay - a story of a reporter who through her investigations of a prostitution ring finds her own redemption while helping free a trafficked stripper find the life she was meant to live.
&quot;I set out to write a novel, but I literally heard a voice tell me to write a screenplay instead,&quot; she said. &quot;It is an inspired project.___
She took her screenplay west to sell it. But that didn___t happen. Discouraged after nine grueling days of meetings, she returned to her L.A. hotel.  While packing for her return flight she randomly flicked the TV to see Bill O'Reilly talking to Michele Gillen, a reporter who has made a career of investigating the multibillion-dollar industry of human trafficking, a form of slavery that spans the globe. Revitalized, Yvonne realized that she was hearing the story she had written and was trying to sell! 

She returned home and contacted experts working in the field of human trafficking in order to fine tune the script for accuracy and made a few adjustments and making the  supporting character, Bethany, a victim of sex traffickers. And so the Williamses, after researching the sordid details of a dark underworld from which few escape, decided to produce the film independently.
Marion Williams, a former prison minister, cultivated investors, raising the large budget required to produce a successful independent feature film.

But once again, the Williamses said, &quot;God intervened.&quot; They realized their film was more than a story; it has become their life project.
Told without the gratuitous violence and shocking sex scenes of most films on human trafficking, &quot;A Dance for Bethany&quot; has proved to be a catalyst, informing viewers of the problem and inspiring audiences to take action, the couple said. This is one of the reasons it was chosen for this important conference. 
The potential for social change convinced the Williamses to reorganize their for-profit film company to a nonprofit business aptly named Raise the Bar Productions. Their goal: to show the film in as many towns and cities as possible, then hold panel discussions on how communities can mobilize to stop human trafficking and prevent their at-risk youth from falling prey to predators.
___Our goal is to not leave a community the way we found it,&quot; said Marion Williams

Human trafficking is not just a third world issue, the couple has found. In the US, our children and adolescents as well as adults are being victimized daily. The average age of victims is 12. Most are young girls forced into prostitution, stripping or into the Internet pornography business. &quot;It is believed that more than 40 percent of missing and runaway children in America end up as victims of human traffickers,&quot; Marion Williams said.
While the actual number of victims is hard to pin down, the U.S. State Department estimates that nearly 800,000 people are taken against their will each year with more than 20,000 victims being taken into the United States, with Florida and California being leading entry points. Other estimates place the number of victims as high 3 million.
&quot;A Dance for Bethany&quot; has garnered three awards from the three film festivals it entered, winning best feature film at the Faith and Film Motion Picture Festival as well as the Redemptive Storyteller Award at the Redemptive Film Festival, and the award of excellence for the score in the L.A. Accolade competition submitted by the film___s music Composer.  

The film is currently being marketed domestically and around the globe by Princ Films. 

Hollywood actors Robyn Lively and William McNamara starred in the lead roles of reporter Abbey Fisher and her attorney-husband James.  

Marion and Yvonne Williams currently live near Nashville, TN and are available to groups and organizations working to help in the fight against human trafficking and slavery in America.  Contact information is available on the website:  www.adanceforbethany.com]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:08:36 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What on Earth?]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[June 15, 2009

LOS ANGELES, CA -- &quot;What on Earth?&quot; -- &quot;Inside the Crop Circle Mystery,&quot; an award-winning feature-length documentary film, has just been released on DVD. 

A long time producer of events and projects having to do with our consciousness and our worldview, filmmaker Suzanne Taylor tracks her interactions, in England, over six summers, with an international community of visionary artists, scientists, philosophers, mathematicians, educators, writers, and farmers who marvel at crop circles. 

The superstars of the film are the circles, which remain an unexplained global phenomenon that has puzzled humanity for centuries -- the photography is awe-inspiring. A question that's addressed by the interviewees is why something so startling and spectacular is largely ignored.

Circle enthusiasts, who converge in England every summer to go circle-chasing and indulge in circle analysis, talk about why they are so taken by this phenomenon. Evidence is presented that challenges the idea that all the glyphs are made by people, and the motives of hoaxers, who make some of the formations, is a subject for speculation. Interviewees also give viewpoints about who or what is delivering the formations that can___t be accounted for as coming from people, and why they are being created.
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___The most startling revelations we get from the circles come from their shapes,___ says a character in the movie. ___Mathematical information encoded in them delivers a virtual curriculum in number and geometry.___ Also, the circles are looked at as art, as instigators to reexamine ancient knowledge lost to a culture that has become separated from nature, and as coming from a source that is aware of us and delivering patterns that point to events on Earth as well as in response to whims and wishes of individuals and groups. 
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In the film, people speculate about what the effect would be if it were officially declared that the circles aren't being made by people. ___If that happened,___ says Taylor, ___it would get us thinking as one humanity in relation to ___the other,___ which would be the best position from which to work cooperatively to solve the problems we all share.___ Questions also are raised as to whether, if were we open to circlemakers who come from elsewhere, they might offer advanced technologies to help us as we run out of resources and heat up the planet.

The DVD of &quot;What on Earth?&quot; also contains outstanding bonus material. It includes commentary by researchers about their favorite circles; an alternative opening that delivers more information about the filmmaker; a moving eulogy about Pulitzer Prize winner, John Mack, a Harvard psychiatry professor who was enamored with the circles and is in the film; a music video of a crop circle song that___s in the soundtrack of the movie; and a gorgeous montage of circles. 

After a preview screening in February, at the UFO Conference in Laughlin, Nevada,&quot;What on Earth?&quot; garnered the award in the conference___s film track for best feature documentary. In April, the movie was the only film shown at the X-Conference, in the Washington, DC area. The X-Conference is an annual gathering to address the politics and implications of the UFO/ET issue: exopolitics. Taylor will take the film to England, in July, for a screening at the Glastonbury Symposium, a major crop circle conference that___s held yearly.

It is the filmmaker___s hope that those in power turn their attention to the phenomenon to examine the available evidence. With our fingers in the dike to solve the pressing problems that challenge us on planet Earth, her hope is that the announcement of the reality of an ET engagement with us will shift the worldview that holds all our problems in place. See her petition, ___A Call for an Investigation of What is Known about Crop Circles___: http://TheConversation.org/call.php.

To learn more about the movie, to view the trailer, and to place orders for the DVD, visit www.WhatOnEarthTheMovie.com. 

CONTACT: Suzanne Taylor
PHONE: 310-652-3440]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:46:11 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Documentary Film]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[New documentary takes a fresh look at breast implant safety in today___s appearance driven culture.

Despite decades of controversy and potential risks openly acknowledged by the medical community, breast implants are more popular than ever.  Last year, nearly 400,000 women in the U.S. got implants. Manufacturers and plastic surgeons made billions.  But, amidst this thriving industry, stands a complex story of questionable regulation, limited science, serious risks, and women determined to do anything to have the ___perfect___ breasts.  Do women getting implants know about the risks?  Do they have ___informed consent?___

At its heart, ABSOLUTELY SAFE is driven by the experience of filmmaker Carol Ciancutti-Leyva___s own mother.  Diagnosed with breast tumors, Audrey Ciancutti underwent a double mastectomy with silicone implant reconstruction. A year later her implants ruptured, and soon after, her health steadily declined.  Like thousands of other women with breast implants, Audrey believes that her debilitating illnesses___chronic fatigue, joint pain, burning sensations___are linked to her breast implants.  However, most doctors deny this link.  Through the voices of everyday women like Audrey, plastic surgeons, FDA officials, and outspoken scientists, the film not only leads a captivating journey through the breast implant safety debate, but also sheds light on the grip appearance has in our culture.

ABSOLUTELY SAFE is set around the stories of two young women who are making opposite choices___Dene__ who is getting breast implants and Wendi who is getting her implants removed.  

ABSOLUTELY SAFE documents the twists and turns of the FDA approval process of silicone breast implants.  Today, serious questions have emerged about the FDA___s medical device___s advisory committee and possible corruption.   On November 17th, the New York Times reported that government scientists have written a formal letter accusing top federal health officials of ___serious misconduct___ by ignoring the concerns of scientists during the approval of medical devices.  Breast implants are regulated as medical devices and these allegations raise potentially alarming questions about the science behind FDA approval and the safety of breast implants.

With the FDA approval of silicone breast implants in 2006, the discussion of breast implant safety seems to no longer exist.  Every woman___s magazine is full of columns and ads about implants and women looking and feeling better about themselves.  Rarely, is it ever discussed that these devices carry known and unknown risks.  The fine print on the back of those ads is being lost or being ignored.  In age of big Pharma and big business, ABSOLUTELY SAFE navigates this tangled intersection of health, money, science, and beauty.

ABSOLUTELY SAFE sparks this long overdue cultural conversation. Carol Cianetti-Leyva, an active advocate for women___s health and rights, also posts at Alive Mind Woman where the conversation extends beyond the film to issues regarding government policy, media and gender roles.

___[ABSOLUTELY SAFE] is the perfect antidote to ads and TV shows that now routinely mislead women into thinking that these devices have been proven to be safe.______Judy Norsigian, co-author and Executive Director, Our Bodies Ourselves

Exclusively available from Alive Mind, ABSOLUTELY SAFE will be available direct to consumer on December 15th. Alive Mind is proud to support Our Bodies, Ourselves with a $3 donation from each purchase of ABSOLUTELY SAFE throughout December. Because every woman has the right to make an informed decision about her body.

Absolutely Safe DVD
Street Date: 			November 21, 2008
Suggested Retail Price: 	$24.98 (DVD)
DVD Catalogue #:		ALV-DV-17
Genre: 				Documentary
Rated: 				NR
Feature Run Time: 		83 minutes
DVD Aspect Ratio: 		16:9
Region:			        NTSC Region 0
Audio: 				Dolby Digital
Production Year: 		2008 
Languages: 			English]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:11:35 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Alive Mind Presents]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Discover the Ancient Asian Secrets of Sexual and Spiritual Satisfaction. 
Available on DVD exclusively from Alive Mind

Have you wanted to become a better lover? Would you like to learn how to make a current relationship more exciting and sexier? &quot;Sacred Love-Making&quot; will awaken all of your senses, physically challenge you, enrich your intimacy, increase your spontaneity, and cultivate your lovemaking artistry. Learn how to integrate your body, heart, mind and spirit to become a better lover. Karinna Kittles-Karsten, better known as The Love Educator, and the author of the best selling book &quot;Intimate Wisdom&quot;, is host and producer of &quot;Sacred Love-Making&quot;, exclusively offered by Alive Mind and currently not available through retail. 

Throughout this exquisitely beautiful, breakthrough educational DVD, Karinna helps two married couples take their most intimate relationship experiences to new levels of passion, emotional connection, sexual intimacy, freedom and sublime union using Taoist love secrets and rituals to achieve spiritual and sexual ecstasy. Bonus features on the &quot;Sacred Love-Making&quot; DVD include: narration from Karinna Kittles-Karsten___s book &quot;Intimate Wisdom&quot;, and a virtual fireplace feature that viewers can use for practicing the lessons provided in the video. Karinna will also answer questions regarding sex, intimacy and the sacred at Alive Mind___s site Sex T__te. 

Begin your sacred journey with &quot;Sacred Love-Making&quot; to grow closer to your partner emotionally, physically and spiritually. Learning new ways of communicating with your lover. Do try this at home! Subscribe to our Sex T__te newsletter and get 10% your purchase of &quot;Sacred Love-Making&quot;. 

About Karinna Kittles-Karsten
Karinna Kittles-Karsten, The Love Educator, is an internationally recognized speaker, best-selling author, and the founder of Sacred Love, Inc. in Los Angeles. She has also achieved career success as an international model and actress. Karinna___s unique integration of Eastern and Western wisdom culled from Taoism, western psychology, and mythology has helped thousands of singles and couples around the world. She has been a guest speaker at such prestigious organizations as New York University and the Learning Annex as well as at Celebrity A-list events. She has appeared on Emmy Award-winning television shows such as NBC___s Starting Over, dozens of radio shows and blogs, and has given advice on the pages of leading national magazines such as COSMOPOLITAN and SELF.

About Alive Mind
Alive Mind is a film label that releases thought provoking documentary programming in the areas of new consciousness, spirituality and cultural transformation. The company seeks out intellectually distinctive work from leading filmmakers that deliver the ___Aha___ response of a transformative experience.

Alive Mind also hosts the online community Sex Tete (the French word means head, seat of intellect and mental faculties) where you will discover films and writings that explore how the sensual and erotic connect with the spirit and intellect through sex. At Alive Mind we are committed to providing intelligent and provocative films, essays, and advice about sex that stimulate on many levels. From Jamie Morgan___s controversial documentary The Workshop about communal sexual lifestyle experiments to Karinna Kittles-Karsten___s weekly posts about how to improve your sex life based on ancient Taoist love secrets, our goal is to illuminate how the pleasure and the power of Eros can be a catalyst for personal transformation. To advance the discussion, visit us online at www.AliveMind.net.


Sacred Love-Making DVD 
Genre: 			   Educational Video
Rated: 			   NR
Feature Run Time:    70 minutes
Bonus footage:	       Excerpt from the book Intimate Wisdom with a virtual ___Intimate Fireplace___ video 
DVD Aspect Ratio:   4:3
Region:			  NTSC Region 0
Production Year:      2007 
Languages: 	       English
Order Online:  	        http://www.alivemindstore.com]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:26:47 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA['All of Us' airing on SHOWTIME - World AIDS Day, December 1st]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Pureland is proud to announce the national television broadcast of our documentary All of Us on the SHOWTIME Network this World AIDS Day -December 1st.  All of Us investigates the social factors that put African American women at the greatest risk for HIV/AIDS and exposes the common power struggle that women across boundaries of race, class, and country contend with in the bedroom.

Nathan Lee of The New York Times says:

___This powerful, conceptually sure film is a model of a documentary method and compassionate social filmmaking___a striking feminist inquiry.___

Be sure not to miss this life changing film and discover why it___s important to All of Us.

When: All of Us is premiering on Monday December 1st at 9:00 PM

Where: On the SHOWCASE channel of the SHOWTIME Network

Please continue to visit the All of Us web site www.allofusthemovie.com/
for updates and don___t forget to get your own copy.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:26:46 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Alive Mind presents its debut World Music]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Taking Humanity to A Higher Note Alive Mind presents its debut World Music 
DVD release ___Sound of the Soul___ with Bonus CD Now Available through NeoFlix

Alive Mind Partners with Afropop Worldwide ___ Public Radio___s One-Stop Source for World Music News and Information!


___[Sound of the Soul] makes us remember that even though the words are different, often times we are singing the same song___.
_____ Beliefnet

Alive Mind is pleased to announce the release &quot;Sound of the Soul&quot;. Already a worldwide film festival favorite, &quot;Sound of the Soul&quot; transports viewers on an exhilarating and inspiring cinematic journey into the heart of the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music.  ___The music you will see in this film is extraordinary, and its message of healing is profound,___ says Peter Scarlett, executive director of the Tribeca Film Festival.  

&quot;Sound of the Soul&quot; also celebrates the historic city of Fez, an ancient sanctuary for Muslim, Jewish and Christian inhabitants; its mystical Islamic foundations; its evocative medieval sites.  The ancient desert Mecca is the ideal location for an exceptional music festival that brings together a gospel band from Harlem, the ethereal sound of Irish vocal group Anuna, a transcendent chorus of African Berber women, a soul-wrenching Portuguese Fado singer, a French early music ensemble, and players and vocalists from Afghanistan, England, Russia, Ireland, Mauritania, and Turkey. All are intermixed with unforgettable Moroccan Sufi performers and all are connected through their artistry by profound expressions of love and faith.

In a world increasingly polarized by religious conflicts and fundamentalist forces,
&quot;Sound of the Soul&quot; reverberates with unity, understanding, and most of all, hope.  This thought-provoking documentary film vividly portrays an Arab country where people of different faiths and cultures have lived together in relative peace for centuries.

&quot;Sound of the Soul&quot; is now available to the world along with the companion CD (exclusively available through Alive Mind) &quot;The Music From Sound of the Soul&quot;  featuring ten concert performances of artists included on the DVD, such as Ireland___s Anuna, female Berber group Samaa Sahraoui from Morocco, The Sirine Choir from Russia, The Tallis Scholars of the United Kingdom, and the mighty gospel sounds of Harlem___s own, The McCullough Sounds of Thunder.

DVD extras includes a guide to world music, additional music performances, a visual tour of Fez and other Moroccan landscapes, interviews with Fez festival attendees, spiritual and political leaders on globalization and more! Sound of the Soul represents a musical treasury for world music enthusiasts and delivers a soul-restoring experience.

Right now with every purchase of &quot;Sound of the Soul&quot;, $3 will be donated to Afropop Worldwide, the internationally acclaimed multi-media service that promotes the musical artists and culture of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Their flagship public radio program is Afropop Worldwide, which is hosted by broadcast personality Georges Collinet from Cameroon, and heard on over 110 radio stations in the U.S. Their well-trafficked website -- www.afropop.org -- is frequently cited by The New York Times and other publications as a primary source for information about African and world music. Afropop is now expanding out into web 2.0 with their fantastic interactive Map set on ___The Musical Legacy of Al-Andalus,___ a perfect piece for digging deeper into the origins of the music found in &quot;Sound of the Soul&quot;.

Afropop Worldwide is currently celebrating 20 years of excellence in connecting music fans with Africa and the world. 

&quot;Now more than ever, Americans need to connect and see their connectedness to the cultures and stories beyond our shores. Afropop Worldwide has a proven track record for doing just that. Afropop Worldwide does superb work on public radio and new media.&quot; 
-- Harry Belafonte, Musician, Actor and Social Justice Activist

Visit their site at www.afropop.org to learn more about music from the African Diaspora, and listen to radio programs on-demand.

About Alive Mind Media
Alive Mind Media releases specialty documentary programming in the areas of women___s issues, new consciousness and cultural transformation on DVD and via digital download. Alive Mind was launched by industry pioneer Richard Lorber as a specialty distribution arm of his new company, Lorber HT Digital. The company seeks to provide its audience with intellectually provocative work from leading filmmakers that delivers the ___aha___ response of a transformative experience. Alive Minds also hosts the blog site Alivemindandspirit.com - a community dedicated to discussing all things related to spirituality in its many manifestations featuring such titles as Secrets of the Soul, Hippie Masala, Beyond Belief, and the documentary film on the international stage sensation Hair: Let the Sun Shine In.  Excite you mind. Visit us at www.alivemindmedia.com.	


About the Film:
Sound of the Soul: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music (DVD/CD set)
Release Date: 9/17/08
SRP: $34.98 ___ 
Total Running Time: 150 minutes footage ___ 
NTSC Region 0 ___ 
Genre: World Music Documentary ___ 
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 ___ 
Language: English, Arabic, Persian, French ___ 
Production Year: 2005
__ 2005 CEM Productions, __ 2008 Lorber HT Digital]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[HAIR: LET THE SUN SHINE IN ___ The Definitive Documentary on the Broadway Sensation
DVD Now Available through NeoFlix from Alive Mind

Hair: The Musical Returns to Broadway in ___09


Alive Mind is proud to offer &quot;Hair: Let the Sun Shine In&quot;, a new documentary film by Pola Rapaport and Wolfgang Held.  

Since its overwhelming success on Broadway forty years ago, &quot;Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical&quot;, has inspired generations with its messages of love, non-violence and liberation. &quot;Hair: Let the Sun Shine In&quot; is the definitive and entertaining documentary that highlights the continuing relevance of the show and its still radical, transformative power. &quot;Hair: Let the Sun Shine In&quot; contains a wealth of archival footage covering U.S. and international productions; original interviews and new segments featuring Milos Forman, Keith Carradine, Ben Vereen, Melba Moore, author James Rado, composer Galt MacDermot, director Tom O'Horgan and others. Hair: Let the Sun Shine In conveys the portrait of an era, a generation and its politics that speaks to today___s audience.

Following the successful revival at Shakespeare in the Park this summer, Playbill announced the acclaimed production of &quot;Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical&quot; will return to Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre beginning March 5th 2009.

___Without exception [Hair: Let the Sun Shine In] is the best HAIR film I have seen.___- Michael Butler, producer of the Broadway production of HAIR

Alive Mind is the exclusive distributor for this ground-breaking film. Order online at http://www.alivemindstore.com. Sign-up for the Alive Mind Newsletter and receive special offers and the latest scoop on other great DVDs.

About the filmmaker
Pola Rapaport is an independent filmmaker and editor living in New York. Her work includes &quot;Writer of O&quot;, a docudrama about the secretive author of the erotic novel Story of O; &quot;Family Secret&quot; ; &quot;Blind Light&quot;; and &quot;Broken Meat&quot;, portrait of the mad poet Alan Granville. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow of the NY Foundation for the Arts. Her films have been shown at festivals including Sundance, Edinburgh, Thessaloniki, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Seattle, Warsaw, Gothenburg, and many others. They have been broadcasted widely around the world. She received a BFA degree from the Institute of Film and Television at New York University. Rapaport  is married to cinematographer and frequent collaborator Wolfgang Held.

About Alive Mind
Alive Mind releases on DVD and digitally specialty documentary programming in the areas of new consciousness, rational spirituality, and cultural transformation. Launched by industry pioneer Richard Lorber, Alive Mind seeks out intellectually provocative work from leading filmmakers ___ media content that delivers the &quot;aha&quot; response of a transformative experience. Recent releases include The American Ruling Class, Kiki &amp; Herb: Live at the Knitting Factory, and The Kinsey Sicks: I Wanna Be a Republican. To advance discussion of issues related to our films, Alive Mind hosts blogs of some of today___s most stimulating thinkers, including Ariel Gore and Amina Wadud, eco-feminist activist Starhawk, filmmaker Jennifer Fox and philosophers Daniel Dennett and Colin McGinn. 

Excite your mind. Visit Alive Mind at www.alivemind.net.

Video Information
Hair: Let the Sun Shine In
Genre: Documentary
Price: $24.98 
Availability: USA 
Running Time: 55 minutes plus 1 hour bonus footage 
Production Year: 2007 
DVD Extras: Original Trailer 
Language: English]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[IFC CHANNEL TO AIR ___BAMA GIRL DOCUMENTARY
DIRECTED BY RACHEL GOSLINS AS PART OF ___CHOICE INDIES___

Doc Follows A Young African-American Woman___s Quest to Become Homecoming Queen at the University of Alabama to Premiere on November 2, 2008 

New York, October 21, 2008 ___  ___BAMA GIRL will have its broadcast premier on the IFC Channel as part of the new ___Choice Indies___ partnership between IFC and B-Side Entertainment.  The deal offers IFC subscribers access to the best independent films from the festival circuit.  The film, by Washington, DC-based director Rachel Goslins follows a young African American woman___s quest to become the Homecoming Queen at the University of Alabama, one of the great Deep South institutions. We follow Jessica Thomas___ struggle for the crown, as she runs against 15 other co-eds, a strictly segregated Greek system, internal black politics, and, most ominously, a secret all-white association called ___The Machine___ that has been controlling politics at the University for most of the past century. This is a film about the light and the dark sides of race and politics in the South -- and an unexpected microcosm of electoral challenges that reflect much of what is happening across our country today.  Salon.com calls it ___Entertaining and provocative___ and the Memphis Flyer says ___&quot;Director Rachel Goslins has created a charming, modestly scaled portrait of America that is hopeful, but frustrating and spooky around the edges&quot;

___Choice Indies are the public___s ticket to the best in independent films as chosen by audiences around the world, said B-Side Entertainment___s CEO Chris Hyams.  ___Airing days before Barack Obama___s historic bid for president, through the prism of a homecoming queen election, the film explores how far we___ve come and how far we have yet to go in American politics.___

___BAMA GIRL will premiere on IFC on Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST and will play throughout the month.  More information and DVDs are available at the films___ website: http://www.bamagirlfilm.com]]></description>
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