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Eighth Annual CineVegas Fest To Spotlight Sex, Adultery and Drugs

The CineVegas Film Festival has announced it will open its eighth edition with Paul Dinello's comedy, "Strangers With Candy," about an ex-con and junkie (played by Amy Sedaris) who returns to her hometown to try to start her life over. The film also stars Stephen Colbert and Philip Seymour Hoffman. ...

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here! To "Race You to the Bottom" Worldwide

here! Films has acquired worldwide distribution rights to writer/director Russell Brown's "Race You to the Bottom." Set in modern day California, the film follows Nathan, a travel journalist, as he is assigned to write about romantic hotspots in the Napa Valley. He invites Maggie, the woman he has been seeing for months, to come along for a passionate weekend getaway. Trouble is, Maggie already has a boyfriend - and so does Nathan. The film, which is Brown's directorial debut, will be released theatrically in early 2007 in select cities nationwide through here! Films sister company Regent Releasing. here! Films is the theatrical distribution ...

Film Movement Goes "Monster" and "Cheek" in North America

Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Norwegian writer/director Arild Ostin Ommundsen's "Monster Thursday," and Indian director Mani Ratnam's "A Peck on the Cheek," the company's president Stuart Litman announced Tuesday. According to Film Movement, "Monster Thursday" centers on Even, a young man who leads a directionless life. Tord, his best friend, is the opposite: a great surfer with a prestigious job and beautiful Karen as his bride who Even secretly desires. When Tord asks him to look after Karen while he is out of town, Even decides to clean up his act and master the waves to impress her." The film screened in competition...

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SXSW "Clicks" for Third Shorts Fest Online

South by Southwest (SXSW) has announced the third installment of its new media festival, "SXSWclick," a year-round program designed to spotlight "short-form storytelling via the Internet and mobile devices." The fest's line up will be announced June 30th and a jury will select winners in five categories, including "old school shorts, "really real shorts," "animate-it," "sound checks," and "What the film?" There will also be an audience prize in which viewers can vote online. Winners will be announced July 28th and will automatically screen during the SXSW Film Festival taking place March 9 - 18, 2007 in Austin, TX. The deadline for submission...

SF Chronicle: For Citizen Gore, The Cause is Global

There is a message that former Vice President Al Gore wants to spread about global warming. He repeats it often in the new documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," in his book of the same name coming out on June 13 from Rodale Books and in the multimedia presentation that he has delivered as the Johnny Appleseed of climate crises more than 1,000 times since leaving office. "(Global warming) has steadily risen over the last four decades to be, by far, the most important challenge that we face," he says. "I believe that it is a planetary emergency, and now the debate is over. The consensus is in. It's real. We're causing it. The effects are really ...