You Need an Agent to Get an Agent

It's a well known Catch-22. In Hollywood, no producer or studio will read a screenplay unless an agent submits it. But you can't find an agent unless producers and studios are already interested in you.

Now one high-powered Hollywood talent agency has upped the ante -- They refuse to read a screenplay unless it's submitted by an agent!

Read the shocking details in this special Hollywood Investigator report!

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Short Film Contest: Political Satire Wanted

SeeFlik.com is seeking comedic films about the 2012 Race for the White House.

Any short satirical video -- animations, skits, music videos, whatever -- welcome "as long as it's funny."

"The Republican primaries offer a tremendous amount of material, and there are plenty of other sideshows in the political sphere to parody. The edgier the better, so rock the boat, it's the best way to get noticed."

The 1st Place film will win $1000. Four runner-up film will each get $500. Winners to be determined by a panel of judges.

Details at: See Flik.

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Los Angeles Libertarian Promotes 9/11 Truth Film: Operation Terror

Ted Brown, who currently serves as Secretary of the Libertarian Party of Los Angeles County, submits the following event notice:

"Is there another explanation for what happened on Sept. 11, 2001? Art Olivier thinks so.

"Art was a city council member and mayor of Bellflower, and later was the Libertarian Party candidate for Vice President (2000) and for Governor of California (2006). He has now become a filmmaker. His new film is called Operation Terror and will soon be out on DVD.

"Art will speaking to the upcoming Region 63 (Foothills) Libertarian meeting about making the film, what it's about, and why he thinks the 'official' explanation of those tragic events leaves a lot of questions.



Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Time: 7:00 p.m. for dinner & conversation; 8:00 p.m. for the program

Location: Panera Bread Restaurant, 3521 E. Foothill Blvd, in Pasadena (west of Rosemead Blvd, at the west end of the Hastings Ranch Shopping Center)"

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Viscera Film Festival Seeks Bone Donors, Feb 25th

In association with Cella Art Gallery, Femme Fatale Art Show, and City of Hope, the Viscera Film Festival will be rolling out the bloody carpet in North Hollywood, California on February 25th to host a charity bone marrow swab registration to cap off their 2012 celebration of Women in Horror Recognition Month.

Many people have life-threatening illnesses that require a bone marrow transplant for a cure. Finding a matching marrow donor is not always easy, or even possible. There aren't enough viable donors registered. Currently, only two out of ten of those suffering from leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening diseases ever get the treatment that could save their lives.

You can help change that.

The Be The Match Registry at City of Hope is working diligently to diversify their Registry of bone marrow donors to help more patients find lifesaving bone marrow matches. When you join the Be The Match Marrow Registry, you can save a life.

Every day thousands of patients need a life-saving transplant and are in search of a donor. With only 30% finding a suitable donor within their family, the remaining 70% must reach out to unrelated donors whose tissue type matches. Even with the Registry of millions, there are still patients waiting and hoping to find that match.

That's where you can help. Come to the Viscera Marrow Event and be swabbed and registered by City of Hope. You could save a life.

This event is FREE but please RSVP to either the Facebook event page or stacy at viscerafilmfestival dot com.

There'll be a very special screening of Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest. This was the last project Hammer horror icon Ingrid Pitt made, narrating her own story for a short animated film by an 11-year-old boy, Perry Chen, under the mentorship of cartoonist Bill Plympton.

Marrow will also provide a carpet walk, food, open bar, femme fatale-inspired art, and a screening of horror films by women.

Place:

Cella Art Gallery
1135 Weddington St
North Hollywood, CA 91601

Date: Saturday, Feb 25th

Time: 6 p.m. to (roughly) 10 p.m.

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Oliver Stone Favors Ron Paul Over Barak Obama

Politically progressive filmmaker Oliver Stone favors libertarian Republican Ron Paul over Barak Obama for president!

Speaking to Ed Rampell of Rock Celler magazine, Stone explained:


Rock Celler: In Our History you ask if there's "a potential wild card in an internal economic collapse of the empire"? Is America an empire? And if so, do you foresee the fall of the empire?

Stone: Yes. Yes, both. I don't think it's a wild card, I think it's a given. There's no way that we can continue this spending spree. In fact, I think in many ways the most interesting candidate -- I'd even vote for him if he was running against Obama -- is Ron Paul. Because he's the only one of anybody who's saying anything intelligent about the future of the world.

How do we go on being who we are? We have an identity crisis here. But as long as we keep running this fantasy through our minds that we can dominate history, it's not a wild card, it's a given!


Read the entire interview.

Oliver Stone's praise for Ron Paul is yet another example of Paul's strong appeal to progressives, artists, and youth.

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Hollywood Invented Piracy

The Pirate Bay issued this thought-provoking press release [on January 18, 2012]:


"Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would 'do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear'. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture.

"Because of Edison's patents for the motion pictures, it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North American east coast. The movie studios therefore relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent.

"There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them -- like Fantasia, one of Disney's biggest hits ever.

"So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: 'stole') other people's creative works, without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit.

"Today, they're all successful and most of the studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations -- it's all based on being able to re-use other people's creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create.

"If you want to get something released, you have to abide [by] their rules. The ones they created after circumventing other people's rules.

"The reason they are always complaining about 'pirates' today is simple. We’ve done what they did."


Read the entire press release.

Also read the Hollywood Investigator's special report on how Big Media is stealing YOUR copyrights!

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Journalists Should Oppose SAG/AFTRA Actors Union Merger

America's two major actors unions -- SAG and AFTRA -- are once again talking merger. That's bad news for AFTRA's broadcast journalist members, because journalists and actors have opposing legal interests.

Tabloid reporter Mimi Brickmeyer explains why AFTRA's journalist members should oppose the planned SAG/AFTRA merger.

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