Award Winning Indie film "Love, Lust, & A Room Key" Headed to Amazon Prime

Starring: Aiden Simko, James Pomichter, Rami Paulus, Laura Liguori, Lindsey Grubbs, Diana Hopper, John Bain

With the hottest happy hour in town, The Builtman Hotel sets the stage for raw tales about love. And for playboy bartender, Harry, it can't get much hotter than hooking up with his sexy bar manager, Anna. After nearly getting caught, Harry returns to the bar on this night to meet a young, newly engaged couple, Carter and Ryleigh. Both a bit tipsy and carefree, they lure Harry into their debate about what our most primal needs are as human beings. Machismo Carter sets the tone for this indie drama, proclaiming, "everyone wants to be seduced, it's our most basic necessity", and poses the notion that, while society has indeed evolved, our primal needs will forever remain the same. "Love, Lust, & A Room Key" allows us to peel the roof back and a take a peek into the lives of eight sets of characters and their issues of intimacy and seduction, loneliness and infidelity, passion and sex, and the need for love. Meanwhile, Harry's perspective is challenged as Anna threatens to break off their romantic encounters unless he can see that there is more to life than "spreading his seed". Passion has it limits, love has none, and for Ryleigh, a heart wrenching realization turns her world upside down, as Carter may not be as perfect as he seems.

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Tracey Birdsall Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter Sci-Fi interview on the Han...

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Best Drama Short Film of 2017: "Hollywood Girl: The Peg Entwistle Story" (Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival)

LOS ANGELES, California- Inspired by true events, “Hollywood Girl: The Peg Entwistle Story, is based the on tragic ending of film actress & Broadway muse, Peg Entwistle. Peg is most remembered as the starlet who leapt off the Hollywood(land) sign in the midst of the great depression and on the verge of her own career breakthrough in 1932.

The film is being praised for evoking emotional empathy for the beautiful and talented young actress whose memory lives on as the “Hollywood Sign Girl”. The story follows Peg in the last days, hours of her life, and her untimely tragic death.

Actress, producer Laura Liguori, who stars as Entwistle, conceived the idea for the film while sitting on her balcony looking up at the Hollywood sign after receiving news that she had lost a role she had anticipated getting.

Liguori states, “Optimism is the key to success in this industry, because rejection is all too common. I’ve learned to keep my head up, be grateful for what comes and let go of what passes. As long as you give your best effort, your dreams will not fail you.”

Filmmaker, James Pomichter, of Arcane Pacific Entertainment, brought this film to life. James wrote and directed this poignant story, the first of its kind. An actor himself, he hopes to honor Entwistle’s life story.

“In the days following her suicide, the media had unfairly labeled her as a failed actress, printing her story in a very negative light. However, that’s not how I chose to portray Peg. I wanted to show her as a vulnerable, passionate young woman, who fell victim to despair as so many others did at that time.” He said.

The film also stars, veteran actor, Michael Rotthaar in an award worthy performance as “Uncle Charles” and includes cameos from Maureen Teefy (Grease 2, Fame, Supergirl), Will Rotthaar (Battle Los Angeles, Killing Kennedy), and Dan Riordan (Dream Girls, Ed Wood).

Composer, music producer, James Emley contributes to the story with an original score. “I wanted to invoke an era and capture its nostalgic jazz melodies. For the climax, it was about giving a rich and emotional soundscape to Peg’s tragic arc.” He said

On a final note, “we hope others can remember Peg for more than just a ghost that haunts the Hollywood sign, but as a great talent that should have stayed with us just a little while longer. We invite the public to celebrate Peg’s legacy,” says Pomichter.


Arcane Pacific Entertainment: http://arcanepacific.com

Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival: http://www.hollywoodreelindependentfilmfestival.com/2017/feb_17.php#hollywoodgirl

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DRAGON AWARDS WILL RECOGNIZE THE BEST IN IMAGINATIVE FICTION IN BOOKS, GAMES, COMICS AND FILMED ENTERTAINMENT

ATLANTA – August 16, 2016 – The inaugural Dragon Awards will be presented on Sunday, September 4th the Hyatt Regency Hotel, as part of Dragon Con, the internationally known pop culture, fantasy, sci-fi, and gaming convention.

These awards, introduced as part of Dragon Con’s 30th-anniversary celebration, recognize the best in imaginative fiction, books, games, comics and filmed entertainment as selected by the fans, who both nominate their favorite works and vote for the winners.

Voting at http://awards.dragoncon.org/ is open to anyone who registers. There is no cost or attendance requirement. Registering to vote ends this Sunday, August 28th at midnight. Voting for this year will end Wednesday, August 31st. Open nominations for the 2017 awards will begin in October of 2016.

Thousands of fans have already registered and voted. The finalists are chosen from nominations that are open to everyone who watches, reads or otherwise enjoys the imagination and excitement found in all types of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

“These awards are our way of recognizing the best writers, artists, directors and game designers who breathe life into the things we love,” says Pat Henry, president of Dragon Con, Inc.

“The first tall tales were told around fires in camps and caves,” Henry said. “Fire was perhaps the original invention that began man’s climb to civilization. The Flame has always been a symbol of imagination and progress and so each Dragon Award contains a unique, sculpted flame.”

The Dragon Awards fifteen categories are designed to recognize the authors, writers, and creators behind the very best in genre fiction. Like the hundreds of events at Dragon Con, the Dragon Awards reflect the diversity of interests shared by those who enjoy science fiction.

Finalists for each category can be found on the Dragon Awards websitehttp://awards.dragoncon.org/. The 2016 categories are:

Best science fiction novel
Best fantasy novel (including paranormal)
Best young adult / middle-grade novel
Best military science fiction or fantasy novel
Best alternate history novel
Best apocalyptic novel
Best horror novel
Best comic book
Best graphic novel
Best episode in a continuing science fiction or fantasy series, TV or internet
Best science fiction or fantasy movie
Best science fiction or fantasy PC / console game
Best science fiction or fantasy mobile game
Best science fiction or fantasy board game
Best science fiction or fantasy miniatures / collectible card / role-playing game

Further details are available on the awards website http://awards.dragoncon.org. Please direct all inquiries to dcawards@dragoncon.org or mail them to Dragon Awards, PO Box 16459, Atlanta, GA 30321-0459 USA

Watch TV: It's not the "boob tube" any more (It's Literature)

Modern Fiction by Firelight

"Literature -- an expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest."

The tradition of storytelling dates back to the earliest human beings.  Those early homo-sapiens sat beside the fire and passed on their histories, their hopes, dreams and fears in the flickering orange hues and the creative juices of humanity began to flow.

Soon, these oral stories inspired visual representations.  Early people scratched their stories in stonewalls in caves.  Later, these caverns replaced by monolithic stone constructions, again adorned with tales from the endless creative depths of human consciousness. 

Born of this well of creative spirit, the rudimentary foundations of written language were formed, and from this, stones gave way to papyrus, and then modern paper.  Gathered around the campfire, carving in the flickering torchlight, writing under the candlelight and lamplight, still people created and shared their stories.

In all of these mediums, human beings poured out their collective dreams onto the page.

In the 20^th century new storytelling technologies were birthed into the industrial world.  The film projector poured light out over crowded theaters and soon one creator’s dreams were the collective observations of audiences.  From there, the sounds and voices of these creations filled the air between the streams of photons and immersed movie goers in imaginative and fanciful worlds flickering in hues of grey over the silver screen.

The advent of color in motion pictures blurred the lines between the creator and the audience, making images more lifelike and, when needed, even more fantastic.  But even as the fires of industry burned brightest for storytellers, a movement arose to bring the collected content of human creativity back to the tribe and family, where it was born.

In 1900 at the World’s Fair, the first television was introduced.  In 1937, the first television network was formed and by the 1960’s, the television was fast becoming a household appliance.

Although early decades saw largely the expansion of technology without true purpose, lending credence to expressions like “boob-tube” and “idiot box” because of its uses for pure entertainment and amusement, it wasn’t long before storytellers heard the siren’s song of those tiny boxes in living rooms across the world.

More channels and greater variety in programming soon became the ethos of the medium. 

In recent decades, the technology has led to larger, thinner flatter screens, donning the walls of multiple rooms in our homes.  Broadcast television, born in 1950, gave way to cable and then to satellite signals and today these paradigms of storytelling are currently shifting again to Internet delivery services connecting viewers of many cultures and geographic regions through the global tether that is the world-wide web.  But still, despite it’s reputation and it’s reach, these technological advances have returned the flickering light around which we gather to the fundamental social unit — the family, the tribe.

In all this, one thing remains a constant.  It is the desire, nay — the imperative — of human beings to gather beside the flickering embers, and whether as members of the family, or as citizens of the global tribe of humanity, listen to and tell our stories.

So many may lament the imagined loss of past “golden ages” of literature and then film or even radio, but for that longing and for the nostalgic harkening of lifestyles long past, there is in these changes some consolation.  It is comforting to think of those early human beings, so disparate than we in their struggles for survival, seated in the setting sun’s last rays, beside a flickering amber glow to share their stories of hope, their fears of what lay beyond, their histories and their dreams, so like we in the 1080p glimmer shown over carpets, couches and easy-chairs. 

So, before you judge that tiny box or massive screen, consider its implication.  It is the modern campfire.  Consider, if I might ask, that it is not merely the latest gadget, but it is your end of a thing string that tethers humanity to the first of us — today’s stories to the first stories — today’s truths to the first truths of our existence.

Just another thought "thunk" by a storyteller no smarter than you.