HEART of the BEHOLDER - Sept. Update #4

HEART of the BEHOLDER Movie 4th Update - Sept 2005
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1. Film Festival Awards
2. Help Us Choose an Alternate Poster
3. Thanks for the orders
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Film Festival Awards

Last weekend HEART of the BEHOLDER was chosen as the Best Feature
Film at the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival in California.  This is the
third festival we have been in and we have won Best Feature Film in all three.

We have three more festivals coming up in the next three weeks and if you are
near any of these festivals or have family or friends near them, please ask that
they come and support our film.

The next festival is the Westwood International Film Festival and it is very
important to us because distributors will be in attendance.  HOTB screens
on Friday, September 30 at 4:30 PM at the Majestic Crest Theater in Westwood
California, a suburb of Los Angeles.  PLEASE consider coming to this screening
if you can and tell everyone about it.

For more info, here is the link -

http://www.westwoodfilmfestival.com/

The other two festivals are Oct. 13 - 16 in Tulsa -

http://barebonesfilmfest00.tripod.com/

and the New Hampshire Film Expo -

http://www.nhfx.com/2005/index.php

We will have more information on these festivals in our Oct. update.

So far the reaction from distributors has been frustrating.  To say that most of 
these distributors are cynical old farts would be a monumental understatement.

Here is a portion of an email from one distributor that pretty well represents the
comments of most of the distributors that have seen the movie.

"... your movie looks great, much better than most movies with higher budgets,
and the story is very well told.  The acting is also very good.

BUT YOU DON'T HAVE ANY MOVIE STARS !!!!!! 

I can't sell a movie with TV stars.  The fact is that the movie going public is made 
up of brain dead soccer moms, attention deficient teens, and divorced dads who 
want to forget about their loser lives and they get comfort by seeing movie stars.  
They see TV stars everyday and they don't give a rat's ass about them in movies.  

But that isn't the biggest problem.  The biggest problem you have is that people will
think your movie trashes Christians and with George W. working the strings of the
country with JC at his side, no theater will take the chance on booking a movie like 
yours."

We disagree with their opinions and three Best Film awards in three festivals should
say something about our film, but it doesn't seem to mean anything to most distributors.
We're hoping to find more enlightened distributors in the near future.

As for the comment about our film offending Christians.  It doesn't seem too.  Our
audience at the Kentucky Bluegrass International Film Festival was 95% bible
belt Christians and our film rated very high.  Below is a review by a Senior Pastor who
also does movie reviews for the website www.HollywoodJesus.com  Please take a look.

http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/comments/furches/blog.html
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HELP US CHOOSE AN ALTERNATE POSTER

We have whittled our possible new posters down to the final four and we ask
you one more time to vote on which poster makes you more interested in
seeing the movie from what you see on the poster.

Go to the following link and help us choose our final poster.

http://www.beholder.com/poster_poll.htm

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THANKS FOR THE ORDERS

In our quest to move our inventory before Amazon.com takes over CustomFlix.com 
on Oct. 1, we want to THANK the 112 people who took advantage of the discounts.

We still have over 7,000 DVDs to move so please consider passing the discounts 
below around to your friends.

Until Oct. 1st, we are selling the DVD with either $5 off or have $5 dollars donated 
for every DVD sold to the Council for Secular Humanism. 

During the month of September, we will be offering our Special Collectors Edition
DVD of HEART of the BEHOLDER at www.Beholder.com or at this direct link -

http://www.customflix.com/206725

Once you get to the CustomFlix page, click on "Buy DVD" which will take you to an
order page.

On the order page is a line that says -

If you have any discount codes, enter them here ____________

If you want a $5 donation made to the Council for Secular Humanism for every DVD
sold,then enter this code - RENUVRXL

If you want a $5 discount for every DVD bought, then enter this code - J2J4AG69

We really need your help in reducing the quantity of the warehoused DVDs.

It will also help us reach our goal of being the first independent film to sell 100,000
DVDs on our own which will open more self-distribution channels for future filmmakers.
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I am available to answer any questions about our productions.

I can be reached at 818-905-4684 or at Producer@Beholder.com.

Thanks for your support.

Darlene Lieblich
http://www.Beholder.com


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Received on Friday, 23 September 2005 06:34:30 UTC