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March 17, 2009
Announcements:
Support Female Filmmakers at SFWFF 2009
Join in the festivities without leaving your laptop! IndieFlix is kicking off the 2009 film festival season with the Indie-fest Online Film Competition at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival.
WATCH all the films online for FREE and When you are done VOTE for your favorite. The winning film receives a Theatrical Screening at the festival and is offered a preferred distribution deal.
The competition runs from March 13 – March 29 at midnight.
This Week’s New Releases:
 Fast Friday: Director David Rowe documents the emergence of the prolific track bike scene in Seattle Washington. Started by Cadence Clothing founder and fixed-gear rider Dustin Klein, the monthly cycling event known as “Fast Friday” has grown into a showcase of today’s most talented riders.
Film Festival Screenings:
Bicycle Film Festival [New York]
OWN DVD FOR ONLY $24.95
WATCH STREAMING FOR ONLY $4.95
Animation:
 The Tragic Story of Nling: Nling is an impenetrable walled slum city whose inhabitants are cut off from the world outside. In this redemption story, animated entirely with paper print outs, a Nlingian man and his best friend Donkey tunnel beneath the wall to find food and alcohol. In his struggle to survive beyond the walls of a slum city, a man finds that he is no more humane than his animal friend.
Film Festival Screenings:
Sundance Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival
Aspen Shortsfest
Arizona International Film Festival – Honorable Mention
Nashville Independent Film Festival -Honorable Mention
OWN DVD FOR ONLY $5.95
WATCH STREAMING FOR ONLY $1.95
Comedy:
 Kismet: Stephanie is a young woman who just turned thirty, and has everything a girl wants in life as well as beauty, intelligence, and a handsome fiance, who will soon be a successful lawyer. Frank is madly in love with her and pushing her to set a date for the wedding after a year-long engagement. But Stephanie is not sure about making a commitment to marriage; something is holding her back. She had a dream about a man when she was eighteen and this is her idea of true love. Her idea of her soulmate. Does this man, Matthew, just exist in her imagination or is he out there somewhere? When Frank finally sets the wedding date himself, Stephanie has to face reality. In the moment of truth, Stephanie has to decide whether to follow her head or her heart. Finally she makes the first really adult decision of her life.
OWN DVD FOR ONLY $5.95
WATCH STREAMING FOR ONLY $1.95
Drama:
 Dhyas: An orphaned pick pocket, Babu, tries to find some human connection in a city filled with people.
OWN DVD FOR ONLY $5.95
WATCH STREAMING FOR ONLY $1.95
 Still Looking for Morphine: Ricky rides her motorcycle among real and imagined dangers, to arrive unscathed, but unalterably changed, at the end of summer. The unrelenting wind of the season disrupts a landscape of inaction, theft and drug use. The end of innocence has already begun and a new path, dark and hopeful, stands waiting like the ships beyond her window. It will be an act of violence that thrusts the girl into womanhood and leads her to a new life where, not without pain, everything is possible.
Film Festival Screenings:
Thessaloniki Film Festival – Best Film
San Paulo International Film Festival
OWN DVD FOR ONLY $9.95
WATCH STREAMING FOR ONLY $4.95
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