Independent Film Distribution: How to Make a Successful End Run Around the Big Guys, 2nd Edition, by Phil Hall

A Book Review
by Don Schwartz

In from member, DON SCHWARTZ:

The new "compromise" tax bill will extend a provision of the previous bill that allows motion picture and television producers to deduct up to $15 million in production costs if they are incurred in the United States ($20 million if they are incurred in an "economically depressed area").

Continuation of the tax benefit is seen as particularly good news for independent film producers, whose investors will be able to keep on taking tax deductions for qualified productions.

ANDREA ADLER would like to offer authors who have an idea for a book or who have started to write a book and would like support in this process with . . . co-writing, copy-editing, and/or ghost-writing services.

She is interested in collaborating with authors in all capacities, as long as the material is uplifting and transformational.

 ANDREA ADLER would like to offer authors who have an idea for a book or who have started to write a book and would like support in this process with . . . co-writing, copy-editing, and/or ghost-writing services.

She is interested in collaborating with authors in all capacities, as long as the material is uplifting and transformational.

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Fred Cook
VisionLogic 
visionlogic.tv@gmail.com
Assist Directors of Photography of digital cinema to get the "looks" they want from their high-end CamPuters (Arri, Panavision, Sony, Panasonic, RED, Silicon Imaging, Vision Research, P+S Technics, etc.) and carry them through Post with any needed adjustments for their various deliverables.

Realms of Light: Pure Ecstasy
Greek-born, Marin County-based Iasos is a composer, musician, and visual artist. He has been creating and presenting sensational multi-media shows for nearly four decades. Iasos is one of the founding fathers of New Age Music – though the quality of his music transcends the genre.

An Angel at My Table: The Extraordinary Story of Janet Frame
Most of us have a movie in our heart we absolutely loved, a film we saw as an instant classic such as “Casablanca,” “Annie Hall”, or “Chinatown”, but which never received that scope of recognition. “An Angel at My Table” is that movie for me. Although it was very well reviewed and won a cornucopia of awards, the film never became a household title and never left its public birthplace – art house cinema.

"What Is Wrong With Our World, And What Can We Do About 
   It?"
- A film review of "I Am" by Steven Meloan excerpted from his blog article of March 26, 2011

"Hollywood director Tom Shadyac is best known for his blockbuster comedies-"Ace Ventura," "The Nutty Professor," "Bruce Almighty," and "Evan Almighty." But his interest in the "bigger" questions of life has been smoldering beneath the surface for many years-evidenced by his 2002 film "Dragonfly," which explored life-after-death, ESP, and the near-death experience. . . .

(In interviewing) an eclectic assortment of spiritual, political, and social thinkers--author/activist Noam Chomsky, Rumi historian/interpreter Coleman Barks, scientist David Suzuki, author Lynne McTaggart, Bishop Desmond Tutu, historian Howard Zinn, author/radio broadcaster Thom Hartmann, consciousness researcher, Dean Radin, and many more, to each of these interview subjects, he posed the question--"What's wrong with our world, and what can we do about it?"

These questions, and the answers explored in Shadyac's recently released documentary "I AM," particularly resonated, because they intersect with many of the themes and explorations of our recently published science-adventure novel "The Shroud."

A key conclusion drawn by many of Shadyac's interview subjects is that science has become the cultural filter through which many of our societal norms, behaviors, and institutions have developed and evolved. Newtonian physics established a physical reality composed of discrete and separate objects, operating according to predictable laws of time and space-the universe as a giant billiard table....

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