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Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz (TRK) presents the 2014/2015 Season Opening Night with The Lost Fingers on Friday, September 19, 2014. The evening, made complete with an opening reception, kicks off the 14th season of TRK’s public performing arts series at the innovative performance space at Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles. The Quebec-based and award-winning headliner, The Lost Fingers, is known for transforming pop/rock classics into Django Reinhardt-style gypsy jazz, with a hint of blue grass, taking listeners on a musical journey through reinterpretations from AC/DC to Earth, Wind and Fire; from Deee-Lite to Dolly Parton and Daft Punk. This will be The Lost Fingers’ Los Angeles debut as a quartet, featuring vocalist Valérie Amyot (a finalist on La Voix, Quebec’s version of the popular American TV show, The Voice). The band previously performed at TRK in 2010 as a trio, before Amyot joined the group. TRK’s2014/2015 Season Opening Night with The Lost Fingers is made possible with the support of the Quebec Government Office in Los Angeles. Read the rest of this entry »
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On September 1st, Berlin-based label Slices of Life will release a new John Tejada 3-song EP on vinyl only. This new EP will be distributed by Forced Exposure in the U.S. and Kompakt worldwide. The 12″ EP, entitled Times Like This, contains three tracks:
• A:…”Times Like This” [6:14]
• B1:..”A Slice From The Past” [4:59]
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Los Angeles-based arts and culture promoter Green Galactic is proud to offer its first-ever class, Marketing, Promotion & PR Basics for Emerging Cultural Creatives, through Trade School LA on Saturday, September 27, 2014, from 2:00pm to 6:00pm. Green Galactic instructors, Founder Lynn Tejada and Marketing Consultant Charlene Boehne, will guide participants through an introduction to marketing and promotion, with a particular focus on public relations and online marketing. The four-hour class has been developed with the needs of emerging visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, playwrights, chefs, choreographers, community space/event organizers, and other creative folks in mind. Read the rest of this entry »
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Devolver Digital Films is proud to announce the digital VOD release of the whimsical romantic comedy-drama, Don’t Know Yet. Directed by Terry Linehan, the feature-length feel-good film follows a heartbroken man who lets the hitchhikers he picks up determine his direction and destiny. Everything changes when he meets a free-spirited woman who guides him on a journey of healing and self-discovery. Filmed entirely in North Carolina, the film serves as a love letter to the state and stars James Kyson (Heroes, Hawaii Five-0, Justified) and Lisa Goldstein Kirsch (One Tree Hill). Also appearing in the film are David Andrews (Terminator 3, World War Z, House of Cards) and Jane McNeill (The Walking Dead). The digital VOD (Video on Demand) release is scheduled for Tuesday, August 12, 2014 through Devolver. The film will be available via iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, PlayStation, Xbox, VUDU, Vimeo on Demand, VHX, Google Play, and others. A cable VOD release date is set for Tuesday, October 7, 2014 (check local listings). Read the rest of this entry »
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Devolver Digital Films is proud to announce the digital VOD release of the award-winning dark comedy-drama, See You Next Tuesday. Directed by Drew Tobia and produced by Rachel Wolther, the critically acclaimed feature-length film is about an odd pregnant girl who disrupts the lives of her campy recovering alcoholic mother and vulgar lesbian sister during a nervous breakdown. The digital VOD (Video on Demand) release is scheduled for Tuesday, August 26, 2014 through Devolver. The film will be available via iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, PlayStation, Xbox, VUDU, Vimeo on Demand, VHX, Google Play, and others. A cable VOD release date is set for Tuesday, September 2, 2014 (check your local listings). The film will also screen at New York City’s Cinema Village on Friday, August 22, 2014 (info here). A DVD of the film is also in the works for a September 23, 2014 release through BRINKvison. Read the rest of this entry »
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Devolver Digital Films is proud to announce the digital VOD release of the bicycle adventure film, A Survey of Open Space. Directed by multimedia artist/filmmaker Peat Duggins, the new feature-length documentary follows a pair of urbanites who embark on a 4000-mile bicycle ride in search of the last wild place in America. Set in the wake of America’s great western expansion, the film is a portrait of bike touring and a meditation on wilderness. Duggins is an established artist working in several media, including film, and his art is in public and private collections. The digital VOD (Video on Demand) release is scheduled for August 5, 2014 through Devolver. The film will be available via iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, PlayStation, Xbox, VUDU, Vimeo on Demand, VHX, Google Play, and others. A cable VOD release date is set for September 9, 2014 (check local listings). Read the rest of this entry »
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Devolver Digital Films is proud to announce the digital VOD release of the critically acclaimed comedy-drama, Soft in the Head, directed by Nathan Silver. The feature-length narrative film, set in New York City, follows the blithely unaware Natalia (played by Sheila Etxeberría), a drunken mess who seeks refuge with friends and in a makeshift homeless shelter, after being thrown out of an apartment by her boyfriend. The digital VOD (Video on Demand) release is scheduled for July 29, 2014 through Devolver. Soft in the Head will be available via iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, PlayStation, Xbox, VUDU, Vimeo on Demand, VHX, Google Play, and others. The film will also be released on cable VOD on September 2, 2014.
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Devolver Digital Films is proud to announce the digital VOD release of the spiritual adventure, AYA: Awakenings. The new feature-length documentary follows a Western journalist who travels to the jungles of Peru to drink the visionary medicine ayahuasca, on a journey that slowly unravels his cultured mind and reveals the magical landscape of the spirit world. This visually stunning film pulls from Rak Razam’s book, Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey, a travel memoir of Razam’s time with shamans in the Amazon. Razam and Timothy Paris co-directed the new film. The digital VOD (Video on Demand) release is scheduled for July 29, 2014 through Devolver. The film will be available via iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, PlayStation, Xbox, VUDU, Vimeo on Demand, VHX, Google Play, and others. A cable VOD release date is set for September 9, 2014 (check your local listings). Read the rest of this entry »
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Critically acclaimed singer-composer-actor Naama Kates is putting the final touches on her third album, Souled, which is slated for a Fall 2014 release. On the new album, Kates reunites with award-winning producer Cyrus Melchor, who also produced her first album, The Unexamined Life. The new album, Souled, is an ethereal reflection on life, love, longing, and Los Angeles. Souled’s thoughtful lyrics showcase Kates’ sultry voice and genre-bending arrangements. The album was recorded at Melchor’s Mount Cyanide Studio in Atwater Village as well as engineer Scott Fraser’s studio in Mount Washington, both in Los Angeles. Distribution details for Souled will be announced in the near future.
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Overtone Industries, a celebrated force in the evolution of contemporary music theatre and experimental opera, will share the stage at REDCAT, CalArt’s downtown center for contemporary arts, with two other Los Angeles-based arts organizations during the kick-off weekend of the New Original Works Festival 2014 (NOW Festival), Thursday, July 24, through Saturday, July 26, 2014. Overtone Industries will present the first glimpse of ICELAND, a new multidisciplinary work, written, composed, and directed by O-Lan Jones in collaboration with critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Emmett Tinley. The production will feature a fourteen-member cast, with two soloists, a twelve-member choir, and a chamber orchestra. ICELAND is a modern love story, set in a mythical and timeless world, where elemental forces and ancient creatures challenge the hero and heroine on an archetypal journey. Read the rest of this entry »
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