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April 13

9:45 a.m., American Tobacco Campus

Premiere of Tootie´s Last Suit - A Portrait of New Orleans´ Mardi Gras Indian Culture.

Immediately following (about 11:15 - 11:30 a.m.)

Victor "Fi-Yi-Yi" Harris of the Mandingo Warrior tribe, who appears in the film, will lead a Mardi Gras Indian parade after the screening

NA filmworks is looking for college-looking actors and actresses available to shoot a feature film in Raleigh, NC this August. If you look 18-30 and would like to be considered for this comedy feature, please send a bio, headshot and 3/4 shot to submissions@dnafilmworks.com.

Tyler - Innocent, friendly looking student who looses his cell phone

Erik - Campus-wise and smart, he fits wittily and seamless in any campus group

Jiminy - A wise cacking fifth wheel...never an outcast, but not quite fits in

We are pleased to announce the much-anticipated World Premier of MEETING RESISTANCE, a documentary film revealing the people behind the violent resistance to the US-led occupation of Iraq. The film explores the hearts, minds and motivation of eight insurgents; A harrowing and exclusive journey inside the Iraqi insurgency, to have its World Premier at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, on April 14, 2007.

"The single most astonishing documentary yet on the war in Iraq" Sidney Blumenthal, salon.com

Documentary Premieres on HBO in July           

New York, NY - April 4, 2007 - What is a coma? What is a "vegetative state"? What is the possibility for consciousness after emerging from a comatose state? What, at the end of the day, makes life worth living?

These questions cannot be easily answered, nor these terms easily defined, as words alone cannot communicate the human struggle to overcome a prolonged loss of consciousness, and, in essence, a loss of self. Academy Award nominee Liz Garbus´ insightful film COMA gives a voice to those whose quality of life and very existence has been questioned because of a recent traumatic brain injury - an injury that affects more Americans than breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV/AIDS, and spinal cord injury combined.

 COMA explores these baffling questions in the wake of the Terri Schiavo media spectacle and the unprecedented "awakening" of Terry Wallis from a minimally conscious state after 19 years of silence. Striving for answers far from the glare of the media, Garbus approaches the topic through the emotional stories of four families coping with traumatic brain injury and through the clear eyes of their physicians, who are world-renowned experts.

HBO Documentary Films presents COMA, which will have its world premiere at the Full Frame Film Festival on April 13 and premiere on HBO in July.  The filmmaker follows the care and treatment of these

four individuals throughout their first year of treatment, as they emerge from coma to either regain consciousness or remain trapped, perhaps indefinitely, in vegetative states. For the vast majority of patients, the first year is a critical window of time for recovery, and most doctors agree that after a year, chances of

progress are slim to none.  Garbus follows neuropsychologist Joseph Giacino and Caroline McCagg, MD as they head up the team of caregivers at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute in Edison, New Jersey over the course of that critical year. The four patients are: Tom Segars, 31, a sales manager who sustained his injury in a fall from a balcony; Sean Reilly, 20, a college student who was assaulted and thrown from a bridge while studying in Europe; and Roxanne Guzman, 19, a college student, and Al´Khan Edwards, 26, a father and restaurant worker, both of whom sustained their brain injuries in car accidents. During that year, the four patients emerge from coma to varying states of consciousness, ranging from a vegetative

state to a minimally conscious state, or beyond, to regain consciousness. The divergent progress for each evolves to the joy and sorrow of their ever-present family members, who have put their lives on hold to become caregivers. While most of the film is set in New Jersey, the filmmakers cross the bridge into New York City, where they shoot exclusive footage of Terry Wallis taking part in a cutting-edge brain imaging study. Top neuroscientists studied Wallis´ unprecedented emergence from 19 years of silence from Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell Weil Medical Center, as well as Dr. Giacino from JFK Rehabilitation Institute. Using fMRI and MRI imaging techniques, the scientists attempt to map consciousness in the brain and find that Wallis´ brain is repairing itself by forming new neural connections. Garbus captures exclusive footage of this remarkable medical breakthrough, which offers hope and the

promise of recovery to millions of brain-injured Americans. The JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute in Edison, New Jersey, where COMA is set, is one of the most advanced brain injury rehabs in the country. Garbus reveals that the state of New Jersey has some of the most aggressive patient care guidelines for head trauma, well above the federal standard of care for such injuries. Touching on national issues surrounding the treatment of brain-injured patients, the filmmaker reveals that the patients in her film are the lucky ones - many patients are left to languish in nursing homes rather than receive treatment in rehabilitation programs, where their maximum potential for recovery can be realized. A national standard of care, as well as increased funding for research, is the goal of The Congressional Brain Injury Task Force. The national organization hopes to expand and improve brain injury programs and fully fund the Traumatic Brain Injury Act. COMA was produced and directed by Liz Garbus; produced by Rory Kennedy and Jed Rothstein; director of photography, Daniel B. Gold and Tom Hurwitz; edited by Karen Sim; music by Thomas Rutishauser; story editor, Dan Cogan. For HBO: senior producer, Nancy Abraham; executive producer, Sheila Nevins.

Five years in the making, the award winning film Nobody will screen in nine theaters nationwide April 12-15.

"The tension between nature and civilization, between isolation and community link Nobody to films by such great directors as Terrence Malick and Werner Herzog." - John Beifuss, The Commercial Appeal Newspaper.

Jerry Bell, a heartbroken, small town steelworker, leaves home one day in an inflatable canoe and never returns. On his journey down four rivers, Jerry finds freedom and grace, until his life catches up to him and his journey to the sea takes a tragic turn.

Nobody will screen next week at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, N.C. on Sunday, April 15, at 9:15 a.m. in the Durham Civic Center Theater Two, and is one of ten films selected to participate in the Full Frame/ Emerging Pictures

digital extension, with theatrical screenings around the country on the weekend of the festival.

Alan Spearman & Lance Murphey will be available throughout the festival to answer any of your questions. 901.331.7922.

The hands of the world's most well known revolutionary where severed from his body in 1967. They where put in a jar of formaldehyde and disappeared from public view. The film reconstructs what happened with Guevara's hands up until the point where they are now being kept. Enclosed you will find a short synopsis of the film. It is true that the story about Guevara hands has never been told before.

The film generated enormous media attention (both in writing as on television) in Europe where it was released last year. The film has been sold to several European broadcasting companies. * The Full Frame film festival will host the premiere North American Premiere of the film.

If you have further questions you can reach me via info@thehandsofcheguevara.com

The film tells the story of 1979´s infamous Greensboro Massacre, in which the Ku Klux Klan killed five Communists, and, despite extensive television footage of the murders, no one was ever convicted. Greensboro spends time with survivors of the event -widowed and wounded former Communists, as well as former and current Klansmen-and explores how they have evolved over the past quarter of a century. The characters all converge as Greensboro held the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the U.S. (2004-2006). The saga of how some people in Greensboro sought healing and understanding while others staunchly resisted the re-examination speaks to the difficulty of confronting the past, and at the same time the actuality of real reconciliation.

Greensboro: Closer to the Truth is the centerpiece of Full Frame´s Southern Sidebar this year, which addresses Truth and Reconciliation. It has been chosen as the closing film of the festival, Sunday at 4:00, and will be followed by a prominent panel addressing reconciliation and healing in the south. It promises to be a rich and rewarding conclusion to the festival.

Incidentally, the following week, Greensboro will screen at the River Run Film Festival in Winston-Salem. The festival has arranged a premiere in Greensboro itself, at the historic Carolina Theater in downtown Greensboro. Judging by the city´s ambivalent reaction to the Truth Commission and the film´s high profile, this should be a fascinating evening.

Screening dates are below. Both Fletcher Hall and Carolina Theater holds 1,000 people.

Sun. April 15 4:00

Fletcher Hall, Durham. Full Frame Film Festival

Thurs. April 19 7:00

Carolina Theater, Greensboro. River Run Film Festival

Sat. April 21, 4:00

Main Theater, NC School of the Arts, Winston-Salem. River Run Film Festival

I am leaving for Durham on Thursday evening. If you're interested and want to write about the film ahead of time, I would be able to send a DVD screener for your convenience. If there's anything else you need please let me know.

For more information contact Adam Zucker at www.greensborothemovie.com

Nömadak Tx is going to be screened at Full Frame

The film Nömadak Tx was awarded last weekend at the Belfast FF with the Maysles Brothers Award for the Best Documentary Film and at Guadalajara IFF with the FEISAL Award.

April 13th Friday 9:00a Cinema One (Carolina Theatre)

SYNOPSIS

The sound rises up from the movement. A real musician must move, must travel. And then they will find new sounds. Nomadak TX tells the story of two musicians moving. Traveling with the txalaparta, a unique musical instrument that is played by two people. They arrive to India, Lapland, the Sahara and Mongolia to

fuse their music with that of remote nomadic peoples. They cross-frozen wastelands and deserts, on horseback in the mountains of the Siberian border, and by train in the west of India... They travel in search of sounds. And they find them in other nations, in other surroundings, in other cultures. In other people that, like them, they use the music to say to the rest of the world:

We are here, we are alive, and we are who we are.

Trailer:
http://www.nomadaktx.com/english/pelicula/principal.html

The Producer will be present at Full Frame

Larry Flynt is the subject of Joan Brooker-Marks new documentary LARRY FLYNT: THE RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE, which will make its world premiere at the upcoming Full Frame Documentary Film Festival on Friday, April 13 at 10pm.