[CounterCorp] Starts Wednesday! The 2008 Anti-Corporate Film Festival

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Dear CounterCorp supporter,

	It's ALMOST here! The 3rd Annual CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film  
Festival starts TOMORROW, Oct. 15, at 7:00pm with the first of two  
opening night films, "Growing Awareness", by local filmmaker Jade  
Ajani. We hope you can make it to this or one of the other films/ 
programs in this year's Festival. It'll all be over by Friday night ...

	In the meantime, there are just a few short updates before the whole  
thing kicks off ...

TRAILERS: We've added trailers for all of the films to the CounterCorp  
website, so if you haven't checked the Festival page <www.countercorp.org/countercorp-festival.htm 
 > in a few days, you can see short clips from each of the films to  
help you choose which ones you want to see.

TICKETS: In addition, there are links to buy tickets to all of the  
films, as well as our one-night and full-festival passes, on the same  
page.

SPEAKERS: And we've added a couple of speakers to the lists of our Q &  
A panels, so you might want to check that out as well. Specifically,  
we do have two recently-added speakers we'd like to let you know about:

	Scott Roberts, the co-director of GASHOLE is scheduled to attend the  
screening on Thursday night and answer audience questions afterward. A  
registered Republican (along with his co-director, Jeremy Wagener),  
Scott and Jeremy are an interesting story of two guys who got fed up  
with feeling like they weren't getting the whole story -- or truth --  
behind the recent run-up in oil and gas prices, so they decided to  
investigate -- and, ultimately, make a movie about -- the issue.

	Both men have said they're now supporting Barack Obama in the  
upcoming election. And they've showed the film in different parts of  
the country, and said it's gotten a great reception from conservatives  
and libertarians as well as liberals and progressives. Talk about  
affecting political change through film ...

	And finally, we're thrilled to announce that Brandon Drake, the  
scriptwriter of our closing night film, VISIONEERS will be attending  
the screening on Friday night at 9:30, along with his father and other  
friends and family, and has agreed to answer audience questions after  
the screening. This film is getting a LOT of buzz, mostly as a result  
of star Zach Galifianakis, who has a cult following from his stand-up  
work, as well as from several network and cable TV shows (and a couple  
of previous films, such as Sean Penn's recent hit, "Into the Wild").

	But the film is also getting great reviews for the work of brothers  
Jared and Brandon Drake -- the director and writer, respectively --  
who've managed to balance satire with poignancy in their debut  
feature. Here's a couple of excerpts from reviews for their work on  
VISIONEERS:

"[F]resh and invigorating. It's a high-concept comedy, but it's down- 
to-earth and accessible, even a little touching. It's a terrific start  
for a pair of new filmmakers. ... [W]orks magnificently. ...  
[I]nsightful, intelligent, and melancholically funny."
	-- Cinematical.com

"[T]he film’s considerable charm rests on its well-worked script,  
vivid, odd-ball characters, and straight-ahead directing (with an eye  
for the absurd) to tell its funny, sad, absurd, and ultimately, life- 
affirming tale. ... Brothers Brandon and Jared Drake have managed  
something truly remarkable with VISIONEERS: They have conjured up a  
funny, intriguing, and touching 'vision' that is at once an homage to  
other great, thematically related works (Brazil, The Wizard of Oz,  
Alice in Wonderland), and also a singular work with its own eccentric  
aesthetic and suppressed, joyous spirit. ... What is so frustrating to  
me is that VISIONEERS will most likely not get seen by as many people  
as will see, for example, the next ribald comedy from Adam Sandler.  
And yet it deserves to be, simply because it has so much more to offer  
(including a soundtrack by Tim Delaughter of the Polyphonic Spree)  
than the usual satiric Hollywood fare. And it’s really funny, too."
	-- IndieExpress.com

	AND it won the Audience Choice award for Best Drama at this year's  
CineVegas Film Festival. This one's going to be special, folks, so  
don't miss it ... !

	We'll continue to update you with late-breaking details about films  
and speakers, and hope you'll make it to at least a couple of films at  
this year's Festival. And for those of you who do come down to the  
recently-restored and beautiful Brava Theater in San Francisco this  
week, there'll be a special announcement about NEXT YEAR'S CounterCorp  
Anti-Corporate Film Festival. So don't wait -- order your tickets  
today, and we'll see you there ...

	A Jeffers afternoon to you all,

John Wilner
Director


	CounterCorp: Putting An End to Business as Usual
	3rd Annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival, Oct. 15-17
		Brava Theater Center, San Francisco
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