Media Alert: Sept. 6, World-Wide Tour of America's Hottest Comedy Short and Music Industry Documentary Continues
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: CJ at (202) 409-7240 or
Press@UrbanFilmSeries.com,
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Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker Narrates as Mainstream and Underground Legends Speak Out About The State of The Music Industry in Before the Music Dies... Urban Comic Legends Create The
Funniest Seven Minutes You Will Ever Spend In Your Life, Richard Pryor Style, in Business Johnson
World-Wide Tour of Films Combine For Over 400 Screenings and Over 100 Festivals In One-Year / DC Screenings Concludes the 2007 Urban Film & Discussion Series / Fundraiser for Upcoming Free Children's Fest In Under-served
Neighborhood
Washington, DC (August 29, 2007) -- Next Generation Awareness Foundation announced today that it has chosen urban comedy,
Business Johnson, by directors Casper Frank and Talia Raine, and music documentary,
Before the Music Dies, by writer/director Andrew Shapter and writer/producer/editor Joel Rasmussen, narrated by Forest Whitaker, to conclude its 2007 Urban Film and Discussion Series hosted by Landmark E Street Cinema (555 11th
Street, NW, Washington, DC). Members of the public, press and VIP's are invited to attend the DC preview screenings of both films on Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $10 (General) and $15 (VIP) and can be purchased in
advance at
UrbanFilmSeries.com or at the Landmark Theatre box office.
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Who: 2007 Urban Film and Discussion Series
What: Urban Film & Discussion Series featuring Business Johnson and Before the Music Dies
Where: Landmark E Street Cinema, 555 11th Street, NW, WDC, Metro Center Metro Location, 11th Street Parking Garage
When: Thursday, September 6, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Tickets: Available at UrbanFilmSeries.com $10 (Gen. Adm.) $15 (VIP and Press Adm.) or at the Landmark E Street Theatre Box Office.
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Press/Media Privileges and Credentials, and Pictures
Members of the press should contact us ASAP at Press@UrbanFilmSeries.com or 202-409-7240. Include credentials (media source, title/affiliation and complete contact information) and state your request(s) as precisely as possible
(interview, article, pictures, attendance). If attending, please RSVP by Tuesday, September 4.
Business Johnson. If you were with the fellas and it was your turn to tell a joke on the afternoon porch and you had seven minutes, which would you tell? How would you deliver it? And who would you handpick to be the fellas
with you on that porch that can only add to the delivery and the funniness of it all? What would Richard Pryor do? Business Johnson is a short film featuring the comedic talents of urban comic legends Alonzo Bodden (The
Tonight Show, Last Comic Standing), Larry B. Scott (Revenge of the Nerds, Space Camp), Rodney Perry (Def Comedy Jam, Johnson Family Vacation), and Jerod Mixon (Me, Myself & Irene, The Cookout). The film highlights six unlikely friends,
hanging on the porch, telling stories. 2007 Screenings: San Diego Black Film Festival, Arizona Black Film Showcase, World of Comedy Film Festival, CineVegas, Hollywood Black Film Festival, Breckenridge Film Festival, San Francisco Black Film Festival, ReelheART Film Festival, Just For Laughs, and Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival
Before the Music Dies, narrated by 2007 Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker, explores the current state of the music industry from the perspective of the music fan. Fans are facing a world where advanced
technology has made it easier and cheaper to produce and distribute music independently, but radio has become increasingly controlled by a few media conglomerates that mainly support "pop" acts that generate big profits. The film features
interviews with a truly diverse group of artists, ranging from Dave Matthews, Erykah Badu and Branford Marsalis to Seattle street performers, Mississippi gospel singers, and the North Mississippi Allstars, as they discuss the divisions
between homogeneous corporate music and independently produced, artistic endeavors. 2007 Screenings: Well over 300 combined scheduled and screened, visit www.BeforeTheMusicDies.com for more.
About The Urban Film Series
The Urban Film Series is a fundraising and programmatic arm of the Next Generation Awareness Foundation (NGAF), a 501c3 non-profit organization, with a mission to connect urban communities with history and progressive cinema, expose
independent filmmakers to the motion picture industry, and to expose under-served communities across the United States to the arts.
The Urban Film Series also produces the annual Black Docs Film Series, Urban Film Series Tour, and Black History Month Film & Discussion Series. The program has received well over 600 film
submissions from across the world for its various film-related programs.
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