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More great news–the film will be showing on August 5th at the DON’T KNOCK THE ROCK festival in L.A. , a thrilling development for me.  This true film lovers film/music festival is a personal project of famed director ALLISON ANDERS (Gas Food Lodging, Grace of My Heart) and her music supervisor daughter TIFFANY. It runs Thursdays throughout the summer and is produced in association with the folks at the ultimate film lovers group CINEFAMILY. The venue, which is run by Cinefamily, is the historic Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax.  And part two of the program will be a special tour through Raymond Scott music in the Looney Tunes cartoons by animation historian and author JERRY BECK.

Naturally I’m going to be there,  haven’t been out to L.A. in well over a year and looking forward to seeing all my West coast friends and participating in this very special event.  I’ll be posting with more details over the next several weeks…

A reminder– there’s a showing at the New Hope Film Festival in lovely and legendary Bucks County, Pennsylvania–a long time weekend retreat for arts oriented urbanites from New York and Philadelphia.  The film will be shown on Wednesday June 23, 9:15 pm at New Hope Arts Center, 2 Stockton Avenue in New Hope.  I will be there and there will be a Q&A afterwards.  Hope you can make it!  Also, the links are to the documentary listings for the festival, to order tickets can go to  the festival  home page, then click on the “Ticket Leap Box Office” page, and I’ve also put in a direct link to the buy tickets page: Buy Tickets.

And while I’m at it, here’s a Google Maps link to New Hope:

A lot of festival news to report.  First up is the Hoboken Film Festival,

which runs from June 4th to June 10th.  The film is being shown on Tuesday June 8th at 4 pm at the Cedar Lane Cinemas in Teaneck, NJ (for some bizarre reason all the screenings and I think the whole festival, despite being named Hoboken, takes place at the Cedar Lane venue, kind of like the NY Giants playing in NJ, I guess!).   I’m planning on being at the screening, and sure would appreciate some company!

Then, in June, there’s a showing at the New Hope Film Festival in lovely and legendary Bucks County, Pennsylvania–a long time weekend retreat for arts oriented urbanites from New York and Philadelphia.  The film will be shown on Wednesday June 23, 9:15 pm at New Hope Arts Center, 2 Stockton Avenue in New Hope.

And then in July the film will be screened at the Jewish Film

Festival of Barcelona–obviously a very exciting development and I am planning on attending that one as well.  Don’t have all the details on that yet, but the planned screening date is Thursday July 8th.  I’ll post more info as it come in.

And finally, looking back a bit, a brief report on a wonderful screening a lot closer to home a few weeks ago–in fact just a few minutes from where I live.  It was sponsored by the Rivertown Film and the Rockland Filmmakers group and was a truly memorable evening with an incredibly enthusiastic and appreciative audience.  Thanks again to David Kaminski and Matthew Seig for making it all happen.