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• Bait and Swit6ch TV: Investiga

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    CONTROVERSY  -- Come see Bait and Switch TV: Investigative Satire ; Sat 2PM at the Renberg!!
    

    We're all Nipple-Pinching, Effing Doomed - NOT!

    
    Unlike other comedy news shows, each Bait and Switch TV episode examines one controversial topic in tremendous detail. Then, this new INTERNET TV CHANNEL encourages the audience on BOTH sides of an episode's controversy to get involved and act on the issues via LIVE ONLINE DEBATES and various pro and con ACTIVISM efforts organized, tracked, and implemented from this baitandswitchtv.com website. We also provide COMICAL ONLINE GAMES tied to each TV episode/controversy, some of them multiplayer games, that allow you to interact with other viewers.
    
    What this TV channel does is continually put a controversy in focus while asking the audience to consider:
    
    HOW DO ANY OF US KNOW WHAT'S TRUE ANYMORE?
    
    We collect and organize deep-dive evidence and positions on both sides of an issue for your review, never dumbing it down, and deliberately punching it up with levity , animation, and music to help make some dire or dreary news and views easier to consume. Then we schedule LIVE DEBATES with experts on both sides of the issues we examined in the TV shows to INCLUDE you in the conversation. This allows YOU to interview the experts and policy makers directly.
    
    Unlike mainstream news gatherers, we trust you the audience to stick with the investigation of a complex, longterm argument with the option of learning more and getting personally involved. Then we invite you to actually get involved with these issues and controversies, which affect us all, when the outcome or direction of the controversy matters to you.
    
    For example, in the first episode on the US meat, poultry, and dairy food supply, Bait and Switch TV does not suggest you stop eating meat, or that you buy only organic meats (we dont even mention organic meats or dairy foods). Truly, we want you to think and decide for yourselves. However, we do tell you in some detail what is IN this food supply and how some of it is manufactured (this episode is about ingredients, not about animal treatment). A lot of the ingredients in meat production ARE being tested on you. These compounds, drugs, GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS, and technologies may or may not be safe, but the FDA recently passed a law, the NO LABELING LAW, that states that you have NO RIGHT TO KNOW if you're eating cloned meat or dairy, for example. Whether you think cloned or genetically-engineered food experiments are a good or bad thing, this is still America and you DO have a right to know. So one of the Activism efforts is geared toward overturning the NO LABELING LAW. Another is directed at supporting the current Antibiotics Misuse bill Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, and put an end to the dangerous overuse of important human antibiotics in the feed and water of animals that are not sick which is an indisputable contributor to the emergence of antibiotic resistance and antibiotics that no longer work in sick humans.
    
    But to be clear, we are a PRO science, technology, and innovation investigative group. In our epigenetics episode, we firmly support and herald new, emerging epigenetic therapies for cancer treatment--this new science may well be the cure to cancer in our lifetime! And our nanotechnology episode is again a very positive examination of technologies and advancements that will make an important and essential difference in the lives of countless people around the world. Should these technologies be tested on you? YOU decide!
    
    On the political spectrum, there are countless controversies to bone up on, most of them anything but black and white. And there is so much divisiveness over many of these issues that Bait and Switch TV strives to find the path on which opposing positions can meet and together find inroads to the power structure and decision-making circles that, these days, seem only to serve lobbyists and power brokers. We do need to start standing together. There is so much at stake now, and the time has come to take a firm hold on our democracy, or lose it.
    
    Our US constitution and free market system have led to the greatest individual liberty, prosperity, freedom, power, honor, and security ever known to mankind. But the people in this country are considered too stupid to understand "the issues" and details, and too many mainstream depictions of the controversies and important issues in our cultural landscape are either polarized to the point of absurdity or dumbed down to the point of irrelevance--allowing only those in power to have access to the facts to use and repurpose as they wish.
    
    Let's join together to become more informed, to laugh and learn together, and to be more directly engaged in our representational democracy. This is how TV can become truly interactive! Let's stand behind the American belief in a free-market supply and demand system, but one that also advocates, and demands, an informed populace and a capitalism enacted with conscience and integrity.
    
    Here are some of the controversies and issues B

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• Bait and Switch TV: Investigat

  • From: leestanion
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    CONTROVERSY

    We're all Nipple-Pinching, Effing Doomed - NOT!

    
    Unlike other comedy news shows, each Bait and Switch TV episode examines one controversial topic in tremendous detail. Then, this new INTERNET TV CHANNEL encourages the audience on BOTH sides of an episode's controversy to get involved and act on the issues via LIVE ONLINE DEBATES and various pro and con ACTIVISM efforts organized, tracked, and implemented from the baitandswitchtv.com website (this is a promo site but the actual interent tv channel is in development at http://www.stanionstudios.com/new   --feel free to take a peak!). We also provide COMICAL ONLINE GAMES tied to each TV episode/controversy, some of them multiplayer games, that allow you to interact with other viewers.
    
    What this TV channel does is continually put a controversy in focus while asking the audience to consider:
    
    HOW DO ANY OF US KNOW WHAT'S TRUE ANYMORE?
    
    We collect and organize deep-dive evidence and positions on both sides of an issue for your review, never dumbing it down, and deliberately punching it up with levity , animation, and music to help make some dire or dreary news and views easier to consume. Then we schedule LIVE DEBATES with experts on both sides of the issues we examined in the TV shows to INCLUDE you in the conversation. This allows YOU to interview the experts and policy makers directly.
    
    Unlike mainstream news gatherers, we trust you the audience to stick with the investigation of a complex, longterm argument with the option of learning more and getting personally involved. Then we invite you to actually get involved with these issues and controversies, which affect us all, when the outcome or direction of the controversy matters to you.
    
    For example, in the first episode on the US meat, poultry, and dairy food supply, Bait and Switch TV does not suggest you stop eating meat, or that you buy only organic meats (we dont even mention organic meats or dairy foods). Truly, we want you to think and decide for yourselves. However, we do tell you in some detail what is IN this food supply and how some of it is manufactured (this episode is about ingredients, not about animal treatment). A lot of the ingredients in meat production ARE being tested on you. These compounds, drugs, GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS, and technologies may or may not be safe, but the FDA recently passed a law, the NO LABELING LAW, that states that you have NO RIGHT TO KNOW if you're eating cloned meat or dairy, for example. Whether you think cloned or genetically-engineered food experiments are a good or bad thing, this is still America and you DO have a right to know. So one of the Activism efforts is geared toward overturning the NO LABELING LAW. Another is directed at supporting the current Antibiotics Misuse bill Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, and put an end to the dangerous overuse of important human antibiotics in the feed and water of animals that are not sick which is an indisputable contributor to the emergence of antibiotic resistance and antibiotics that no longer work in sick humans.
    
    But to be clear, we are a PRO science, technology, and innovation investigative group. In our epigenetics episode, we firmly support and herald new, emerging epigenetic therapies for cancer treatment--this new science may well be the cure to cancer in our lifetime! And our nanotechnology episode is again a very positive examination of technologies and advancements that will make an important and essential difference in the lives of countless people around the world. Should these technologies be tested on you? YOU decide!
    
    On the political spectrum, there are countless controversies to bone up on, most of them anything but black and white. And there is so much divisiveness over many of these issues that Bait and Switch TV strives to find the path on which opposing positions can meet and together find inroads to the power structure and decision-making circles that, these days, seem only to serve lobbyists and power brokers. We do need to start standing together. There is so much at stake now, and the time has come to take a firm hold on our democracy, or lose it.
    
    Our US constitution and free market system have led to the greatest individual liberty, prosperity, freedom, power, honor, and security ever known to mankind. But the people in this country are considered too stupid to understand "the issues" and details, and too many mainstream depictions of the controversies and important issues in our cultural landscape are either polarized to the point of absurdity or dumbed down to the point of irrelevance--allowing only those in power to have access to the facts to use and repurpose as they wish.
    
    Let's join together to become more informed, to laugh and learn together, and to be more directly engaged in our representational democracy. This is how TV can become truly interactive! Let's stand behind the American belief in a free-market supply and demand system, but one that also advocates, and demands, an informed populace and a capitalism enacted with conscience and integrity.
    
    Here are some of the controversies and issues -- see www.stanionstudios.com/new

    --Leesa Stanion

    STANION STUDIOS

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• Has anyone had trouble uploadi

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    I've tried to upload my trailer for the last few weeks on this site and it still says "pending". Did anyone get the same problem, or is everyone having the same problem, can u please help>

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• Victoria Nestorowicz discusses

  • From: daphne23
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    Victoria Nestorowicz was one of the ensemble actors that I met at the Banff Creative Workshop's Women in the Director's Chair workshop. I just fell in love with her courage as an actress and told her that I was going to write something for her. REPLAY is that film.

    A little while ago, I asked Victoria about taking on the role of Kate and this is what she shared.

    Playing Kate in REPLAY was a challenge. I think I will always have the initial question before I get onset, "am I a good enough actress to make this believable?" Michaelin was a wonderful director; she spent a lot of time with me working on Kate's mentality and personality and that inspired great confidence.

    While shooting some of the scenes in the car, I would actually get so involved that it was difficult not to actually break down and cry, again Michaelin played Kate's sub conscious and instilled a tremendous amount of strength in me. I believe that in most cases by not 'playing the victim', someone who is captured will eventually be granted freedom.

    It's an interesting border that women (especially western) dance round today. A lot of media and fashion experts tell us how liberating it is to act a certain way and wear certain clothes. We think it is "woman's liberation' but is this actually the truth? In an indirect sort-of-way palying this role helped me realize the rights and honor of being a woman.

    The way that Michaelin expressed this film is very impressive and courageous; both onset and off, she is a role model for Kate and mentor to me.

     

     

     

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• "What on Earth?"...Inside the

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    What on Earth? -- "Inside the crop circle mystery," which won the 2009 EBE Award for Best Feature Documentary from the UFO Congress Film Festival, will be screened as part of the LA FEMME FILM FESTIVAL on Thursday, October 15, at 10 am at the Davidson/Valentini Theatre, 1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038.

     

    What on Earth? tracks Producer/Director Suzanne Taylor’s interactions, in England, as part of an international community of visionary artists, scientists, philosophers, mathematicians, educators, writers, and farmers who marvel at crop circles, the unexplained global phenomenon that has puzzled humanity for centuries. 

     

    Circle enthusiasts, who converge in England every summer to go circle-chasing and indulge in circle analysis, talk about they have become so fascinated by this phenomenon. Evidence is presented that challenges the idea that all the glyphs are made by people, and the motives of the hoaxers, who make some of them, is a subject for speculation. So is the question about what is delivering the circles and why they are being created.

      

    “The most startling revelations we get from crop circles come from their shapes,” says Taylor. “We are being given a virtual curriculum in number and geometry.” The film also looks at the circles as art and as instigations to reexamine ancient knowledge lost to a culture separated from nature.

    
    In the film, interviewees speculate about what the effect would be if it were ascertained that the circles aren't being made by us. “If we knew we were not the only advanced intelligence in the cosmos,” says Taylor, “we would be one humanity in relation to ‘the other,’ and, as someone in the film says, ‘That could be what saves this civilization.’” 

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• Andrea_Velez

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• "Fiona's Script" screening Sat

  • From: Florencia
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    FIONA'S SCRIPT  (US, 89 mins, HD)

    Fiona is a daydreamer who uses her screenwriting as an excuse to fantasize about reuniting with her ex-love. Things get tricky when circumstances force her to put on a play based on her unfinished script… and even more complicated when the dazzling 'L' focuses her charms on her, challenging her to live in the present and let go of the past.

    

    Written & Directed by Florencia Manóvil
    Producers: Brynn Gelbard, Rhoda Jordan, Cristin Shea
    Editor: Jesse Kerman
    Director of Photography: Jason Mitchell
    Production Designer: Lisa Donohoe
    

     

    Cast:

    Fiona - Sonia Montejano
    Mara - Giovannie Espiritu
    L - Deirdre Renee Draginoff
    Paloma - Kathreen Khavari
    Henna - Melissa Valentine
    Flavia - Mayra Gaeta
    Sebastián - Allan Lazo
    
    

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• Oh the excitement of 'selected

  • From: sallyanne
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    Having arrived fresh from a long haul flight from the UK to Australia some 26 hours of travel, I checked my emails to discover the most wonderful news in the world, I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE YOU!  A selection email from LA Femme Film Festival for my first on my ownsome documentary filmmaking project.  It was a fantastic experience to make it, let alone to now know that it will be screened in a place I've never even had the good fortune to visit myself.  This seems as good a reason as I'll ever get to visit LA.  So here I come!

    Thank you thank you thank you LA Femme Film Festival for doing what you do and for including 'A Day in the Dirt'!

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• The Mondavi Gang

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    Brief Synopsis

    Don't believe the hype!

    THE 2008 Presidential Race did not just occur on  television, in debates and soundbytes. It occurred in households across America. THE MONDAVI GANG is a gripping emotional portrayal of friends deliberating the presidential candidacy and learning that personalities and politics will clash and communication is the hardest thing of all. This film captures the sentiments and tensions of American voters with all the realism and none of the bias of media commentary.

    As the characters discuss their views, those in the audience will find themselves drawn into a compelling conversation. THE MONDAVI GANG is a fresh look at how 2008 was the year the American people woke up and finally talked to each other.

    
    Meet the Cast, Crew
    
    AnnaLea Rawicz Arnold (Lauren)
    
    AnnaLea Rawicz Arnold, was born in Caracas, Venezuela and raised in Miami, Florida where she eventually attended New World School of the Performing Arts.  Tired of the constant sunny weather and beautiful blue skies AnnaLea relocated to Boston, Massachusetts and studied under Kristin Linklater at Emerson College obtaining a Bachelors in Fine Arts.  Three years of snow and ice were enough; after graduation AnnaLea relocated to Los Angeles, California and continued her training at Playhouse West with Bob Carnegie and Jeff Goldblum. 
    
    T.V. and film credits include several now canceled shows.  Perhaps you caught her in Garfield: The Movie (with husband Evan Arnold),  or on Providence, Gilmore Girls, 7th Heaven (recurring), or City Guys (recurring).
    
    She is a member of The Troubador Theater Company (All's Kool That End's Kool, Fleetwood MacBeth, It's A Stevie Wonderful Life) and associate member of Buffalo Nights (Anatol, Crazy Drunk).
    
    After a five-year foray into the high pressure Hospitality Interior Design world and a three year foray into motherhood, AnnaLea is back in the acting world.  It's been more than a month!  Apart from The Mondavi Gang, AnnaLea just completed the Dances with Films 2 for 2 Short Film Challenge where she played Dr. Strunkenwhite in Dr. Strunkenwhite, Grammar Therapist.
    
    R. Brandon Johnson (Greg)
    
    R. Brandon Johnson, a native of Bloomington, Minnesota, graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BFA in Theatre. In New York City, he studied at the American Theatre of Actors under Denny Albee. In addition to appearing in more than 27 commercials, he appeared in ABC’s One Life to Live, in the reoccurring role of Michael McBain. Several years later, ABC brought him to back to play a sexy, loyal ranch hand, Chuck Wilson III. He has also appeared in other soaps including The Guiding Light and As the World Turns. Other television credits include the History Channel’s Blood Red. He is currently working on The Disney Channel’s hit show, Hannah Montana, as the reoccurring guest star, Brian Winters.
    
    Brandon’s film credits include, The Notorious Bette Page; Rick ; Invisible Evidence, Malevolence, where he played the lead role of Julian; and Little Erin Merryweather, a horror film currently available at major video stores. Brandon just completed a short film, The Mondavi Gang, a political potboiler about the 2008 presidential election.
    
    Brandon’s on-camera experience includes hosting that started with WNYE’s Cool in Your Code, which to date has been nominated for 19 NY Emmy awards and was just launched in London. Simultaneously, he worked as premiere host for OLN’s Rally America. Afterwards, he booked Formula D for the G4 TV Network. After moving to Los Angeles in 2006,  he was offered a shot at HGTV's Get Out, Way Out! It's been a perfect fit ever since.
    The series just wrapped 26 episodes.  The 2nd Season premiered in HD this past March; plus he just finished shooting two Pilot’s Pretty Smart and Perfect for VH1.  This past November Brandon joined Jeannie Mai on USA’s Character Fantasy.
    
    When not in front of the camera he can be found behind a drum kit-his second home for the past 19 years.  Brandon’s done 4 US Tours with various bands and released 5 albums.  This experience helped him land another hosting gig for MySpace called the MySpace Music Feed.
    
    David Morwick (Brad)
    Writer, Co-Director
    
    David Morwick is a native of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He started in the business as a child actor and model. David received the 'Best Actor' award from the Boston Globe's Drama Festival for his portrayal of Roy Hubley in Neil Simon's Plaza Suite. He acted in several summer-stock productions until he was accepted into the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. He continued his studies with Kristin Linklater at Emerson College where he earned a BFA in Acting. 
    
    After acting in several independent films in Boston, he decided to write, direct and star in his own feature film, Little Erin Merryweather, a psychological thriller. The film went on to win Best Feature at the Woods Hole Film Festival and since then has been distributed worldwide. The original sound track for the film has recently been released in Russia.
    
    One of David’s passions is politics, which has been part of his life since he was a child. He actively campaigned and worked for political candidates including Sen. Edward Kennedy, Congressman Barney Frank and most recently former President Bill Clinton and now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative. His involvement in politics led him to write The Mondavi Gang which he co-directed and starred in.
    
    His next project is a feature film, The Auditor, based on the novel, “The Auditor” by Thomas W. Hammond, Jr.
    
    Lalesha Railsback (Ellen)
    Co-Director
    
    Lalesha Railsback was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of film and TV actor Steve Railsback and producer Jackie Giroux. She got her start in the film industry when she appeared in commercials as a child. 
    
    Lalesha has been on both sides of the camera. Her film credits include Forever, Coo Coo Café, Blue Seduction and most recently, The Mondavi Gang.  Having a desire to be part of the action on the other side of the camera, Lalesha has worked in a variety of capacities including script supervisor for Blue Seduction,starring Billy Zane and a recently completed thriller, American Sunset where she worked with Corey Haim.
    
    As a young mother of three children, Lalesha juggles a demanding schedule but is determined to make her mark in the world of film.  In The Mondavi Gang, Lalesha makes her debut as a director while acting in the film as well.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

     

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• STARving

  • From: SierraLovesLife
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    How much can you lose before nothing is left?

    SYNOPSIS:

    STARving is an intimate narrative about the world of female students at a performing arts high school. As our protagonist, Sam, succumbs to the pressure to be skinny, she descends into a world of compulsion where help seems out of grasp.
    
    Based on the true story of writer/director Sierra Lisa's life at an arts high school, STARving hopes to raise awareness about the struggles many young women face and stresses the powerful role those around them can play. Modern America is obsessed with body image. For young women, especially in Hollywood, the difference between shining through and fading away is the people who support them.

    WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT STARving:

    I was blown away by Sierra Lisa's talent and vision...someone get this girl on The Tyra Show!
    - Leeza Gibbons (Talk show host and past anchor on Entertainment Tonight and Extra)
    
    Poignant, emotionally gripping, and topical.
    -StuffWeLike.com
    
    A superb look at a difficult topic. This tough issue needs to be talked about, and the film goes into it very deeply.
    - Los Angeles Moondance Film Festival

    
    

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• cmorwick

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• Love Hurts

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    Love Hurts- Written and Directed by Barra Grant

    Synopsis:
    
    Ben Bingham (Richard E. Grant) has slipped into a fossilized middle-age, unlike his vibrant wife Amanda (Carrie-Anne Moss). When she finally leaves him, Ben is at a loss. He drowns himself in gin and refuses to get out of his pajamas until his popular 17 year-old son Justin (Johnny Pacar) takes over. He changes Ben’s “look” and pushes him out into the social scene. Before Ben knows what is happening, he is the most popular single man in town, pursued by his nurse (Jenna Elfman), his trainer (Janeane Garofalo), and karaoke-singing twins. Things change when Justin falls in love for the first time and now finds his father’s lifestyle incredibly superficial. Ben is forced to refocus, recapture his humanity, his heart, and most importantly his wife… who is now with another man.

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• That All May Be One

  • From: karenkearns
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    THAT ALL MAY BE ONE  A Doumentary about the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet

    Where have all nuns gone?  Their unusual dress made them easy to identify, but since their move to secular clothing, the sisters have become invisible.  Church scandals generate headlines but acts of kindness rarely get media coverage.  This story hopes to change that by examining the good work and enduring legacy of the Sisters of St. Joseph.

    Producer/Director/Writer:  Karen Kearns

    Associate Producer/Editor: Tina Nguyen

    Music By:  Elizabeth Sellers

    Graphics:  Magdy Rizk

     

    Screening format:   DVD

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