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Many in the entertainment and acting industry are familiar with the popular style of learning and performing known as method acting. The Heller Approach Acting Studios – based in Burbank, CA – offers an alternative "non-method" way of acting that has been used for decades by many Hollywood icons of the past (such as Spencer Tracy and Anne Bancroft) and still continues to be used with tremendous success by today's generation as well.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is an anthology of folktales and urban legends by Alvin Schwartz with original illustrations by Stephen Gammell. Along with being a wildly popular kids book series around Halloween time, it is also the most banned book title of the last 30 years. Examining the legacy of the books will also be an exploration of how children's books are banned, challenged, or censored in elementary schools, middle schools, high schools and even libraries. The Scary Stories books were the most challenged children's books of the 1990's according to the American Library Association and remained on the top ten in the subsequent decade. Along with being a nostalgia title for so many people, they are also a controversial title for many schools and libraries.

Mark Beazley, a deaf animator and cartoonist, has officially launched a Kickstarter campaign for 'Deafy Toon Studios', a new animation studio that caters to the deaf in the United States. The Kickstarter campaign aims to garner widespread support and financial backing to fund setup cost and to acquire ground breaking motion capture equipment for use in the film making process.

Superheroes in Animation Movies is a creative animation film production company based in London that has launched their own Youtube channel which will allow the company to show off their work to a wider audience and attract clients. They offer high quality animation movies with superhero characters including Spiderman, Frozen Elsa, Frozen Anna, Joker, Batman, Daff and more. The team shares new videos on a daily basis.

After a busy summer spent setting up film premieres, local festivals and event screenings, Premiere Outdoor Movies is an official sponsor of the Seas The Day Beach & Film Festival. This year, the company is setting up screens in Atlantic City for the festival taking place on October 1st 2016.

Saturday, November 5, 2016, at the Bel Air Luxury Cinema at 6 p.m. in Detroit, Michigan, an innovative, independent romantic comedy, titled Stay in Your Place, is making its red carpet debut. This romantic comedy was produced in Detroit by The Shoe Lady Productions and So Real Entertainment. It is based on the bestselling book titled A Ho Needs to Stay in a Ho's Place, written by Tonja Ayers. The book was initially adapted into a groundbreaking stage play, Stay in Your Place, co-written by DuJuan Johnson. After two sold-out shows, the stage play received blazing reviews and accolades. There was a huge thrust of energy to take Stay in Your Place to the next level.

The team behind a feature film that tackles the issue of racism as experienced in contemporary America recently released the trailer for The Red Effect, a hard-hitting drama with a noticeably familiar storyline: An unarmed black teenager is shot and killed by a white man.

Sovereign Health, a leading national provider of behavioral health treatment services, announces a new television interview about its Eating Disorder Program. The interview, featuring Janet Whitney, M.A., LMFT, Eating Disorder Program Director at Sovereign Health of San Clemente, was first broadcast live on the NBC affiliate KMIR’s program “Desert Living” on Wednesday, Sept. 28. In the interview, Whitney discusses Sovereign Health’s two Eating Disorder Programs. Sovereign currently has an adult program for women at its San Clemente facility and an adolescent program at its Rancho San Diego facility. Both programs specialize in the treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, providing both inpatient and outpatient services. In addition, the programs offer patients individualized treatment plans, encompassing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Patients also participate in individual and group sessions, nutrition and body-image therapy, and experiential treatments, such as art and equine therapy.

Kids from the Other Side (KFTOS), a Califor-nia 501(c)3 with a mission to support high school students make it through high school without taking a drink or drug is being featured at the 2016 Reel Recovery Film Festival reelrecoveryfilmfestival.org in New York City on Sunday, September 25 at the Cinema Village Theatre on 22 E. 12th Street in New York City.

With the International Center for Abduction Research (ICAR) reporting hundreds of thousands of abductions since the formation of ICAR, (1) public interest in human-alien interaction has never been higher. To help satisfy the public's cravings is RED LIGHT, an expertly staffed and accurate extraterrestrial-abduction movie based on a true story. But there is one hinderance holding back the full potential of this film: funding. Despite the experience of the staff in working with low-budget indie movies, a not insignificant amount of funding is needed to make a realistic and feature-length science fiction film. To aid in garnering these funds RED LIGHT has launched $960,000 crowdfunding campaign. But what exactly is being produced? And what is this true story that RED LIGHT is set to revolve around?

Post-production has been completed and all rights are available for the powerful pre-apocalyptic drama The Second Coming of Christ.

The USHIFF Golden Film Awards will showcase feature & short films from around the world as well as providing a platform for up and coming filmmakers in independent feature films.

Chicago based budding filmmaker and creative writer, Christopher Perkins has setup a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter with the aim of raising funds and support for his upcoming science fiction movie Ralphie which is about aliens. The goal is to create excite the SYFY world by telling an enthralling story of an alien encounter of 3 life-long friends and ensuing adventure. Christopher requires funds to bring the project to life, the money raised will cover the production and equipment costs, and the crowdfunding campaign has a funding goal of at least $100,000 USD to be raised by Thu, Oct 20 2016.

ZEN DOG, the directorial debut for writer/director Rick Darge, will make its world premiere at London's prestigious Raindance Film Festival on September 25, 2016. Starring Kyle Gallner (American Sniper, The Outsiders) as Mud, a man trapped by a mundane existence, and Adam Herschman (Accepted, Hot Tub Time Machine 2) as his eccentric cousin, Dwayne. Guided by the philosophy of the late Alan Watts, Dwayne teaches Mud the beauty of lucid dreaming, creating a world where the possibilities of what could be, is, and helping Mud find happiness and the freedom from everyday life we all strive for. Also starring Clea DuVall (Argo, American Horror Story, Carnival), and newcomer, Celia Diane.

Famous "WTF?" book series author Greg Bergman has recently launched a crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter seeking support for his upcoming feature comedy "Obamaland". Mocking the hyperbolic conspiratorial theories forwarded by the right wing against Obama, the film explores a journey which shows what would happen if all the things alleged by the far right turn true.

Spill Sheet is a Los Angeles based production company that creates films, which enable our clients to successfully promote their brands through story telling.

Writer and director, Hunter Pendleton, has officially launched a Kickstarter campaign for garnering widespread support and financial backing to finance a narrative film entitled 'The Abstraction of Color'.

Young Met Film School student Gabriela Chavez has recently launched a crowd-funding campaign at Indiegogo seeking support for her short dystopian film in-the-making "The Book of Disbelief". Inspired by a short story titled "Saint Manuel, the Good, Martyr", the drama follows an idealist angle, and is packed with strong elements of oppression, rebellion, death & tragedy in one intensely emotional rollercoaster. The film is a part of Chavez's graduation project.

Attendees at this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which runs from Sept. 8 - 18, will discover a new form of "competitive kindness" courtesy of the xocial (pronounced "soh-shuhl") online community's #LoveThySelfie campaign benefitting Kids Now (kidsnowcanada.org).

9/11 is one of the more revered and painful dates in American history. It is a taboo subject that we all stay away from, but not anymore. Now 9/11 is a musical. Yes, you got it right it's a MUSICAL. Global Genesis Group is proud to announce that Arbor Day (the musical) is available on Amazon Prime. Arbor Day is an independent film that has taken on the taboo subject of 9/11 and yet has still managed to win over audiences with its heart.

BacktotheFuture.com—the official Back to the Future™ Trilogy website, has announced its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.com for 1:8 scale miniature replicas of Back to the Future Part II's Hoverboards, with a portion of the proceeds designated to benefit The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. The world's smallest levitating Hoverboards are developed by NeoLev® Technologies, LLC through a licensing agreement with Universal Partnerships & Licensing.

This August, Premiere Outdoor Movies was chosen to debut a new independent film from a local film maker. In recent months, the company has screened a number of films for local events and happenings, but the opportunity to debut an independent film was a high honor.

"Wrestling School", a documentary by filmmaker, documentarian, and animation producer Max Minor reached over 180% funding on Kickstarter, with 4 more days to go. "Wrestling School" is the perfect documentary that both wrestling and sports aficionados will appreciate. It is an insightful and captivating independent documentary film about the Santino Bros. Wrestling Academy in Bell Gardens, California.

Art lovers and explorers of various cultures that want to have an essence of the cultural ethos and artistry of Bengal needs to delve into the rural folk art vertical. It is in this arena that one will find an entirely distinctive form of art and creativity thriving. It's rustic and has an elemental charm about it. Catering to this art form Birla Academy of Art & Culture has organized the screening of a documentary film, titled "Folk Theatre of Bengal: Exploring the Fragile Existence of Theatre Groups in Rural Bengal". The screening of this documentary took place in the art gallery Kolkata unit on July 22nd in the evening at 6:30pm in the presence of an enthusiastic audience.

Devils Lake, ND based vocational rehabilitation counselor, Elizabeth O'Carroll, has launched a crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter in support of her YouTube travel documentary "Love Suppose-ium" which aims to explore and explain the true meaning of love based on real-life stories and experiences.