It’s been a fun week! On Monday Film Threat magazine online dropped this new interview with Director, Gregory Bayne, in which he discusses both the road to Jens Pulver | DRIVEN, and LovelyMachine’s unconventional approach to distribution with Person of Interest.
GREGORY BAYNE, FILMMAKER; DRIVEN PERSON OF INTEREST
And later that day, Gregory’s first post in a series about the distribution of Person of Interest appeared in Filmmaker Magazine’s Blog.
Today we are announced our ‘LAST MARCH’ campaign to complete Jens Pulver | DRIVEN at www.mmadiehards.com. Check out the interview, and learn how to reserve your Limited Edition DVD of the film.
Join us in our ‘Last March’ Campaign to complete Jens Pulver | DRIVEN!
From August 20, 2010 through September 10, 2010 you can reserve your Limited Edition DVD of Jens Pulver | DRIVEN for a contribution of $30.
This Limited Edition disc will be signed by Jens Pulver, individually numbered, feature exclusive DVD art, and additional video content. There will only be 1,000 of these discs printed. As of August 20,2010 there are only 560 left to reserve!
The DVD will be released on November 1, 2010.
Click the link below to make your contribution and secure your copy today via PayPal.
New review of PERSON OF INTEREST came in from Prague yesterday. Read the review here, then check out the supplementary video blog from the reviewer, Adam Daniel Mezei.
Our next stop in the OFF THE GRID Film Tour is Los Angeles for the CINEFIST Summer Screening Event. Director Gregory Bayne, and Writer/Star J. Reuben Appelman will be in attendance for this special sneak preview screening at the Downtown Independent this Thursday night (August 5th). Things get rolling at 8pm, with the screening followed by a Q&A, and after party on the roof.
Get your tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/120410
We’re excited to announce that the PERSON OF INTEREST store is open! The film is available right now on DVD, and for download in HD or SD formats. We also have our very cool “American Security” T-Shirt, and other great merch.
Check it out here -> PERSON OF INTEREST – STORE
We just returned from an incredible trip to Annapolis, MD, our first stop on the PERSON OF INTEREST ~ OFF THE GRID Film Tour where we screened to a very engaged audience, that kept us for a nearly hour long Q&A. In the audience were 4 young Iraq Vets, the video below captures one of their reactions.
Person of Interest – A Veteran’s Reaction from David Clow on Vimeo.
On Friday, July 9th, Kickstarter and Rooftop Films are hosting the first annual Kickstarter Film Festival on the roof of the OId American Can Factory in Brooklyn.
The festival will feature 90 minutes of film and video from a dozen Kickstarter projects, including feature films, stop-motion animation, documentaries, art, and dance.
We’re happy to announce that JENS PULVER | DRIVEN will be among those films featured in the festival, with the first public screening of the first seven minutes of the film. This new feature documentary from LovelyMachine is produced and directed by Gregory Bayne, co-produced and written by, J. Reuben Appelman.
We’re very pleased to announce that the PERSON OF INTEREST~OFF THE GRID Film Tour has been successfully funded via Kickstarter.com. More to come on the tour, and DVD release in the next few weeks.
Gregory joined renown indie film distribution consultant, Peter Broderick, yesterday as part of his talk on ‘crowdfunding’ at the Los Angeles Film Festival’s “Seize the Power (DIY)stribution Symposium.”
You can read a recap of the event here: http://bit.ly/a1C6TG
Immediately after finishing work on our feature film, PERSON OF INTEREST, we released it for free online for a limited time. 2 weeks later we were riding an unexpected high of glowing reviews (read some below), and invites to screen the film around the country.
To be able to take advantage of these invites we have launched a Kickstarter.com campaign to raise $5,000 to launch what we are calling the OFF THE GRID Film Tour.
The basic idea is to build a small summer/fall tour schedule, playing one night screening events in venues large and small, building a community around the film. And we need your help to do it.
Through the successful completion of our campaign we will be able to sure up the invites we have now, add additional dates and venues to our tour schedule, cover our travel, and produce our DVDs for the film.
Here is the link to our campaign. Please check it out, and pass it on -> http://kck.st/aymyW7
Many thanks,
Gregory
“Person of Interest is rich, intricate, relevant, and nuanced. We love the way you play with shadow and light; reality and fantasy; detail and movement. This film is compact and powerful, just like Terrance Dyer. We are blown away.” – Julie Keck & Jessica King
“Incendiary! Bold & compelling story. Relevant. Haunting. Love the definitive visual style: organic, intimate, raw — an elegant grunge.
Enjoyed the film.” – Jake Stetler
“Thanks for putting out a shining example of GREAT independent film! This is the type of smart, engaging movie that people yearn for. An absolutely fantastic story, masterfully told. Stunning. Simply stunning.” – Phil Holbrook
“Brilliant. Intellectually seductive and intriguing…” – Matthew Janes
“Congratulations on your film. I just watched it and thought it totally compelling and intense. You leave enough space for us to tell ourselves the story and I’m very grateful for that! Hope as many people see it as possible.” – James Devereaux
“…unsettling & absorbing. I was reminded of Gus Van Sant at his best and early Scorsese but it definitely had its own vision. Engrossing story & stark, impressive visuals.” – Thomas Cunningham
“a great goddam film…” – David Paul Baker
“This is a visionary work; it is the TAXI DRIVER of this generation. It is a fulminating, subversive piece of cinema that throws a sharp elbow into the solar plexus of domestic propaganda and challenges the dogma of fear.” – Pericles Lewnes
Want it? Get it. Right here.