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As this documentary film unfolds, viewers are drawn into an intimate family struggle. Tom Luckey is coping with recent and dramatic changes in his life. Handsome, outgoing and wildly creative, Tom approaches life with utter abandon. A builder of interactive art, he has spent his career making furniture that was more inclined toward sculpture than function, wooden merry-go-rounds that he hauled into Central Park and enormous sculptures for children to climb. Then at age 65, Tom tumbles through a window in his bathroom and lands on the floor of the tiled dinning room a story below. He damages his second vertebra and becomes paralyzed below his neck. Tom spends months in rehab. When he emerges he can move only his head, but his verve is much the same. He wants to get on with life and finish the enormous climbable sculpture he had been commissioned to build at the Boston Children's Museum prior to his accident.
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In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride. A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle.
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B-Side and Sundance Film Festival To Offer Enhanced Online Film Guide for 2010

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We’re pleased to announce that B-Side’s Festival Genius
technology has been chosen by the Sundance Institute to power the
online film guide for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival
(January 21st – 31st). Launching on December 11th, the improved
Sundance Film Festival online film guide will provide new tools for
audience members to plan their Festival schedule and to explore all the
latest programming. In addition, festival-goers will now have
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"B-Side has literally changed the landscape for film festivals over the
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Visioneers, Nerdcore Rising, and Crawford make their iTunes debut

Some of B-Side’s most popular 2009 films, VISIONEERS, NERDCORE RISING, and CRAWFORD, are now available on iTunes for download to own.

<Visioneers> A satirical look at the effects of corporate culture, VISIONEERS tells the story of George Washington Winsterhammerman (Zach Galifianakis from THE HANGOVER). An ordinary man with a comfortable life, George should be content. He has a nice house, a pretty wife, and even a boat. Everything would be fine if people didn’t keep exploding.
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<Nerdcore Rising>NERDCORE RISING investigates the newest wave of hip-hop, nerdcore, as it follows the godfather of the genre, MC Frontalot, on his first national tour. Beginning in South Carolina and culminating in nerd mecca – the Penny Arcade Gaming Convention in Seattle – masses of fans across the country come out to bask in the Front’s geek glory as he strives to achieve mainstream success.
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<Crawford>CRAWFORD was a one-stoplight Texas town before then Governor George W. Bush began calling it “home” in 1999. Having invented Bush’s “folksy image,” the campaign’s victory thrusts Crawford onto the world stage and an insular community of barely 700 explodes overnight, complete with international press corps, patriotic tourists, boomtown opportunists, and peace protesters.
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Upcoming Fests – NYC Horror, plus more

NYC HorrorThe New York City Horror Film Festival returns to the Big Apple November 18th – 22nd. As one of America’s largest and most recognized genre film festivals, NYC Horror focuses solely on horror and science fiction. Celebrating both horror classics and up-and-coming genre films, the festival fills the city with special screenings, parties, celebrity guests and free giveaways.

The festival screens approximately 50-60 films, with categories for best feature, short, actor, screenplay, and many others. Every year, NYC Horror gives the Lifetime Achievement Award to one legendary horror filmmaker. Past recipients include Roger Corman, Tobe Hooper, Tom Savini, and George Romero. Horror films are some of the most creative, profitable, and innovative films made today, and NYC Horror is at the forefront of this cutting-edge genre. See what all is showing at NYC Horror.

Another festival starting this week:

Paso Robles Digital Film Festival (Nov 20-24)

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